In 2015 the aptly named “Discord” went about “solving” a problem that had already long since been solved: in-game voice chat. The role of voice chat had been fulfilled by Mumble since a decade earlier. What new innovations has Discord brought to the table? Let’s walk through some of its major features. Discord compels its subjects to surrender a phone number. So not only is any expectation of privacy or anonymity obliterated, but one is also confined to a single account. Subjects of...
