[dejawu]

A bit of an edge case, but I recently managed to move all my important conversations with friends to Discord - except for one friend who didn't use it. Since he also works in tech, we just made a Slack workspace for the two of us. I actually find it quite nice to have different channels for each topic that we're mutually interested in.

Slack and Discord are my two favorite chat platforms right now so I'm very happy with the way this all worked out.

[Voliokis]

I absolutely refuse to use Discord ever again after they started requiring phone verification. I'm tired of every company under the sun wanting all kinds of information from me that have nothing to do with what I need their service for. It's frustrating that it's become so popular.

[lotsofpulp]

Phone verification is the cheap and easy way to stop spam/malicious actors, plus you get a unique identified to track people with. I imagine it's here to stay in the short term.