Discord

very nice app to make a community with

It has become a dangerous place, just look up youtuber "No Text to speech" or go to his Discord to understand the problem that Discord doesn't want to fix. I highly do not recommend using Discord, the report button myth is that it requires millions of reports to do the simple job of removing the bad person. Still banning someone means nothing if they can return.

Discord will not fix sexual misconduct of any kind. You may experience harassment and only the server mods can help you, not Discord. PMs on Discord are really bad, do not use it, do not approve anyone you never meet for PM.

One thing to understand is Discord will push ads, banners, guilt trip, peer pressure and legislation on you so that all information is collected. You never had to give up your phone number until recently. You were never pushed ads until recently. Your data will be sold to whoever decides to buy it (not in a bid but actually buying your profile interests) as stated in the Discord agreement.

Do not use Discord!

as time goes this app becomes more worse.

discord used to be chill and cozy platform, but not anymore now. its rotting slowly, ads and bullshits filled it. the community is shitty now, i miss the old days. it used to be decent back in 2020, but in 2025? nah. i also dont like its paid system for important features. discord is also both privacy and security concern.

recently i switched to matrix protocol clients and feels much better. matrix.org is not perfect but its improving

Discord is neat from a user perspective, in that it has channels, forums, threads, and servers. The convenience I can settle with.

Two major flaws in my opinion.

• Some time in 2022, Discord massively changed the code for the Android app to be more in-line with the iOS version, and the iOS code allows for revealing 25 new, unread messages at a time; you can't jump to the first unread message of a channel. Sometime later, I found a "bug" in which I go to a channel with unread messages, and then the "X+ new messages" doesn't show up, as though I've read all of the messages anyway. I need to now go and recall what the first unread message of a channel actually was. After Discord "revamped" the app last year (December 2023), this significantly took away the muscle memory to navigate between DMs, servers, etc. Using APKMirror I switched back to version 126.21, the last version to have native Android code, for the sake of my convenience.
• Discord is overall a privacy nightmare; the messages are not at all encrypted like the calls (as of recent), and the service has a bunch of trackers. It's best at this point that you use the web version instead of the desktop application for the best convenience.
• Minor one, but you can't join more than 100 servers without Nitro.

Some other general issues worth mentioning:

• You need Nitro to have an animated profile picture, server-separate profile pictures, the ability to use any stickers and emojis on any servers, and animated emojis (not animated stickers, ironically).
• 2020: Discord started removing the occasional fun messages that would show up every now and then in the app.
• 2021: Discord revamped the logo and changed the "blurple" color.
• 2022: Discord updated the font to something a bit less readable, replacing Whitney.
• 2023: Apart from the "revamped" mobile app change, Discord outright removed the discriminators, assigning usernames instead. And I believe afterward, Discord started rolling out features exclusive to Nitro users, such as super reactions (useless) and account decorations. At least it allows for use of the default stickers, that's a nice redeeming point (granted that you're using an up-to-date version of Discord).

Discord will keep getting worse and worse, and eventually, it's gonna lose users. Which sucks because it had a chance to be an actually decent platform. I will then have to turn to Stoat Chat at some point. The fact that it works for me and is not horrible in terms of convenience is why I didn't give this 1 star (despite the major privacy caveat).