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by NoSorryCannot 1759 days ago
Discord doesn't even do its one thing all that well.

The client is buggy and slow.

It makes the terrible, lazy choice of blanking the window when it has a connectivity problem.

Non-standard for-pay emojis are a terrible idea. Text should be copyable, by everyone, exactly as it is.

It's not the worst among the current stable of chat solutions. I would give that award to Teams, because wow, Teams fails in just about every way, it's a spectacle really.

Each day, I am a bit surprised at how all of the major platforms fall short of expectations, because superficially it seems like a pretty tractable problem space.

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> Non-standard for-pay emojis are a terrible idea. Text should be copyable, by everyone, exactly as it is.

I agree from a moral standpoint but because of the general use of emoji in servers, it really doesn't prove to be that much of an issue. People also enjoy using their own emoji, which is generally good for communities.

I think you'll find that as users find platforms to coalesce and try and build communities on, they'll want those customizations. Being able to use them anywhere on the platform is just a bonus - unpaid users can still use those emoji within the servers they come from.