Unfortunately I’ve had to pay for an extra cell phone line just to use the app for work. VOIP numbers are rejected and must be unique per account. In my case it was likely because I had the audacity to back up my chat messages with a script. After a few years I can make new accounts again but I feel like I’m playing Russian roulette every time I do.
If you don’t use separate accounts for privacy someone can dump a list of potentially any known server you’ve ever been in. I knew it would be only a matter of time until something like this would happen: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/s/A5nvuZBLab
Discord sadly was pretty successful to lure in users and even a lot of devs build their community there. I think it is a bad choice because of lacking discoverability and the proprietary nature of the platform. It feels lively because it is a chat. But otherwise most projects are better hosted elsewhere.
Considering how many community groups and open source projects now use a Discord in place of a public forum this looks like a disaster going forwards since all the information in there will become locked up. And of course the chats and internal discussion threads aren't indexed by search engines.
It's very frustrating as a user to be region-locked on the supposedly open internet, but the real feeling of violation happens when companies layer phone number requirements on top of the region lock, which in many countries means that your government ID is now linked to the account, because you cannot buy a SIM without linking it to your ID. Truly a cyberpunk dystopia.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/216679607--Ver...
> Verification Levels refer to the levels of security a user must meet before they're allowed to send text messages in a channel.
For me it’s worth it, but there’s no option either.
