> I'm not sure where you get "barely works" from, but that's not remotely my experience or the experience of anyone I know.

Alright, I'm exaggerating but I've never had as many problems with such a popular app of that class. I'm literally locked out right now due to a known bug (confirmed by support) and this isn't even the first time. Then there were months when recording voice notes (of all things) didn't work on Android. So many other little random things. If YouTube or something behaved that way I'd be shocked. It's a ghetto in comparison.

Yeah, I get what you're saying about friction. I'm complaining as someone who's fine with Signal and IRC, so not the target audience. Someone else also mentioned that the performance may have been better early on as well. I find that hard to believe but I'll trust ya'll for now.

That's wild to me. I'm mostly not a fan of browser-based tools, and I was apprehensive of Discord calling things "servers" when they're clearly not (if they lie about that then what else?), but it's been rock-solid for me and for several friend groups for ~6 years. We don't use any particularly fancy features (chat, voice, streaming, various settings changes on all of those, etc), but we use a mix of clients/web/mobile-web, and out of all of us there was exactly one issue in that time (a few weeks were incompatible with a particularly esoteric browser, fixed not long after I reported it).