I really don't understand the folks fleeing to Discord. A mailing list does 99% of the same thing for most of the communities.

Sure, if you want to chat while gaming, that's the whole point of Discord. Ganbatte.

But, for everything else, Discord is such a horrible misfit that I don't understand why it's the default.

> I don't understand why it's the default.

Because it equally well supports real-time communication.

And it looks shiny.

And some people use it to e.g. watch a video together, or other social purposes.