Discord: The App That Promises Everything, Delivers Nothing
Your Discord is open right now.
No, seriously. It’s there. Minimized, maybe. But running. Eating your RAM. Waiting for you to click it. Again.
You opened it to chat with one friend. Found yourself in 12 different servers. Three hours gone.
The Slow Rug Pull Nobody’s Talking About
Discord in 2018: Clean. Simple. Just chat.
Discord now:
- Click to disable notifications (not enable)
- Games you didn’t ask for
- AI features you didn’t ask for
- Overlays, activities, bots, integrations
- A store inside your chat app
- Nitro upsells every other click
- File size limits that feel like a joke
Every. Single. Update. Adds. Bloat.
It’s like watching a beautiful minimalist website slowly transform into a MySpace page. Features piling on top of features until nobody remembers what the core product was.
You didn’t want Discord to be Spotify. You didn’t want it to be Steam. You just wanted to text your friends without your CPU catching fire.
The Moderation Is Actually Broken (But You’re Used To It)
You run a Discord server? Cool. Now manage permissions across:
- 47 role categories
- Channel-specific overrides
- Bot permission layers
- Integration permissions
- Thread permissions
- Forum permissions
One click in the wrong place? Your entire server’s security is compromised.
One volunteer mod gets tired? Spam, bots, and chaos take over in 24 hours.
Discord doesn’t solve this. They just add more permission options. More complexity. More problems.
Why You Can’t Leave (Even Though You Want To)
- 5 years of chat history
- 200+ servers you’re in
- Custom avatar, nitro cosmetics
- Inside jokes only in Discord
Switching means starting over. So you stay trapped in an app that’s actively getting worse.
That’s not a product. That’s a hostage situation.
The Alternative Stares You In The Face
Revolt exists. It’s everything Discord was supposed to be.
Or Slack if you want enterprise-grade stability.
Or Matrix if you want true freedom.
But you’ll probably stick with Discord. Because leaving is harder than complaining about it.
Posted on h01.in – Where we notice the rug pull before it’s too late.
P.S. – This article was written while Discord was running in the background. It took 40% longer to write because the app kept freezing.