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by MatthiasPortzel 628 days ago
The other reply goes to airplanes but there are much more common ways to get disconnected. Locking my phone or closing my laptop lid disconnects me from IRC. A lot of Discord users have desktops that are always on (since Discord originally advertised to gamers), but a lot of Discord users don’t.

Discord is fundamentally a very versatile platform. If you lose one seemingly unimportant, you lose a lot of versatility. Maybe I’ll write a blog post just with examples of how I’ve used it. It replaces IRC, but it also replaces Facebook groups, Skype, a lot of group texts, and a lot of email for me.