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They have a <10 person team IIRC, using Discord as an interface saves a TON of money/effort/maintenance/risk, etc, as best as I understand, and lets them focus on the technical product. Remember, Discord is giving them free content legal protection by proxy, even if that's not necessarily the original intended effect I think. There's a lot to gain by riding alongside Discord as a primary interface vehicle, I personally believe.

They're good enough technically at what they do that their audience is okay with the interface that they have to use, I'd reckon (I've heard similar beefs about the UI stuff though, so it sorta makes sense).




> Discord is giving them free content legal protection by proxy

Would you mind explaining what you mean by that? Thanks!


Discord does not have its own data centres, It would be hard for them to provide such a guarantee.


Discord hosts a substantial number of images among other things.




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