"old fart view" but the main issue with Discord is that it's entirely owned and operated by a single company, you operate on their terms, and as with most startups they're endlessly looking to "monetise" it. It already annoys me that too many dedicated forums have been cannibalised by discord "servers" and you have to faff around with creating an account and downloading software to get to it.
since it's private it isn't indexed by search engines and is not useful as any sort of historical record (as the TVF and soon TVLF archives are)
since it's private it isn't indexed by search engines and is not useful as any sort of historical record (as the TVF and soon TVLF archives are)