christ alive. i guess discord's authentication servers are fucked or something. every time i try to log in it says it "detects suspicious activity" and requests my phone number. every way of typing my phone number is considered "invalid" in the system, and the support ticket webpage gives me a blank "service unavailable" page when i try to submit a ticket.
and all this is of course a day after it refused to send me notifications for important messages yet again as it has been doing for literal years. (and yes, i have tried every single "fix" under the sun because every person who sees me say this assumes it's something i'm doing. it's not. i have friends who also have this experience with discord. it's pervasive enough i've had to tell people never to send me important or time-sensitive messages over shit like discord, and to use steam / bnet / text messages. all of which have their own annoyances and problems, but nothing even nearly as bad as discord's.)
i really, really wish people would just start moving away from this dumpster fire of a chat program. skype was ass too once microsoft took it over but i never even once had problems with skype even half as bad as the years of horrendous issues i've had with discord.
if nothing else, if people aren't going to migrate to something different, i wish they'd at least stop praising and coddling a closed-source for-profit hell program to me. i really detest how much people eat up cutesy wutesy marketing and buy so heavily into it. you see this with Disney and used to see it with Tumblr too, these companies carefully cultivating a friend persona that people get attached to and will defend to the death things these companies do they wouldn't tolerate from other companies. they see enough hey fwend ^w^ look at our bwand new data scwapers and anti-features you can't tuwn off!
and decide this is safe and good. i'm so fed up with this and i'm fed up with the fact it clearly works. the amount of people who've defended discord's horseshit to me is only rivaled by how many people defend Apple to me, which is really saying something.
like. quit it. they're all shit. all of them. i only hate discord and apple more purely for their legions of fans who'll gladly take a bullet for a faceless corpo that would sooner crush the marrow from their bones for a bit more cash than care about them as a user. you don't even have to hate them on the level i do or anything, just stop pretending they're your friends who need defending from the evil meanies who would dare hold them accountable for their bullshit, or that the things they do aren't "as bad" purely because they're companies you like.
and this happening was very stressful as well, because whenever some garbage like this happens with discord's awful servers, it gives a glimpse of how things would look if i ever lost access to my account (or just left discord entirely like i've been really wanting to), because so fucking many people i know use discord exclusively. i'm on other things as well of course, but almost everyone i know won't even talk to me unless it's through that shithole. which is the sole reason i haven't deleted my account and wiped my hands of discord and its bullshit for good.
i don't need any of this, man. i'm already trying to pick up the pieces of my life for the ten thousandth time. i just want to talk to my friends and hang out and not have to deal with any of this shit.