> mobile client sends a notification by default for any activity
This is a setting on a per-server basis, “Default Notification Settings” although it doesn’t effect “Highlight notifications” or poll notifications if the user has participated in a poll, so it leaves something to be desired.
> no active ruby bot library
I’ve used Discord.rb, and it may not meet the author’s definition of active, but it does exist.
> complicated subscription structure with unclear pricing (but probably <$20/m)
Discord is free. “Boosting” or paying at a server level is completely voluntary and unlocks mostly cosmetic features.
> mobile app is noticeably slower at everything
This one I don’t get. On my 5-year-old iPhone the Discord mobile app is pretty snappy. “slower” than what?
I agree with all of your points here. I also noticed that the iOS notifications got an "upgrade" recently with photo previews and user avatar icons now being present in the notifications.
On the note of mobile, I do know plenty of people I talk to on Discord with Android devices dislike the native Android to React Native update which slowed down Discord to the point where people risk bans by modding the older native Android client to continue working with modern Android.
The notes mention "boosting" because of the interest in Discord's 1080p streaming.
As for slower, I was comparing to than the web app and mostly concerned by how slow it is to change channels and servers, coming from the context of a TUI IRC client where changing is <20ms.
> mobile client sends a notification by default for any activity
This is a setting on a per-server basis, “Default Notification Settings” although it doesn’t effect “Highlight notifications” or poll notifications if the user has participated in a poll, so it leaves something to be desired.
> no active ruby bot library
I’ve used Discord.rb, and it may not meet the author’s definition of active, but it does exist.
> complicated subscription structure with unclear pricing (but probably <$20/m)
Discord is free. “Boosting” or paying at a server level is completely voluntary and unlocks mostly cosmetic features.
> mobile app is noticeably slower at everything
This one I don’t get. On my 5-year-old iPhone the Discord mobile app is pretty snappy. “slower” than what?