Obviously I didn't mean that your email 100% WILL NOT be marked as spam just because spf and domain key are set correctly. My point was that your email won't be auto-bounced just because it didn't come from gmail/hotmail/aol/etc. I also was talking about mail servers from web hosting companies, such as inmotionhosting.

The author of this post seems to not be super aware of what he is talking about.

As of 2021 discord has received a TOTAL of $980 million in VC money. Ok that seems like a lot until you look at their year over year revenue:

From ONLY nitro subscriptions: Year Revenue ($mm) 2016 5 2017 10 2018 30 2019 45 2020 130 2021 200+

So as of 2021 discord has created $420 million in revenue.

This isn't counting anything from 2022 or 2023, because now server boosts are a thing and also discords version of Patreon rewards that server owners can implement (discord takes 30%).

So while discord isn't out of the VC hole yet, it's on a meteoric rise and making more and more money every year.

Data retention: I never have seen a discord official policy that they don't delete data ever. I specifically remember a blog post where they outlined deleting data from servers when it reaches a certain age. This was the blog post where they were detailing a database move. I cannot remember specifics. I did some searching about discord policies on deleting attachments and came up with nothing. To my knowledge discord has no policy stating that your attachments will live forever. That said, storage is cheap. Storage is very cheap.

Morally lazy: Honestly easily when someone says something like this I tend to think that they are probably a blithering idiot who has no idea what they are talking about (in a lot of cases this is true, and usually someone with a chip on their shoulder). In this case after reading the post I have come to some conclusions...

The author does not use discord much The author does not nor has he ever paid for nitro The author does not nor has ever run a server with actual people on it The author is someone who thinks that matrix is in any way feature comparable with discord (it's not, not even remotely close)

The author is weirdly offended by discord referring to servers as "servers". Because ackshully "a server is, generally speaking, a piece of compute that operates some software that serves users in some way. Each server is isolated from each other server, and they may run a mariad of difference pieces of software. They may be based in different countries."

This is the dumbest and most pretentious point possible, and the fact that it's passed off as a supporting point to the post makes it impossible for me to take the author seriously.

And then there's this gem: "Discord is not a financially feasible company. Let us examine some very conservative projected operating costs:

• 500 SF employees * $150,000/year
• 50000sqft SF office space
• 15 billion messages per month * 12 * 830 bytes per message on average"

So all employees of discord make 150k a year? I'd love to see some supporting evidence there.

50000sqft office space Do we know how much rent discord is paying? Not to my knowledge

15 billion messages per month * 12 * 830 bytes per message on average" Storage is cheap.

A company making upwards of 200 million a year. "Not financially feasible“? In my mind this points to the contrary.

The wan show is one

Set up boxtrapper and you'll never have a spam email again. As long as you set up SPF and DKIM records on your mailserver, you'll never get marked as spam.

This post seems to have been written by someone who has no idea what the hell they are even talking about.

I've always enjoyed Sandler movies. Probably because I expected exactly what what promised on the tin. A lot of slapstick dumb comedy.

In case you don't know, he is happy that he's able to do these little dumb movies and every time they are filming him and his friends basically treat it like a paid vacation.

Dude for real. Once I had the unpleasant experience of a plug popping out a little too quickly and drenching me with it. It is the most foul, awful, stench.

I’m using Lubuntu.

Talk about burying the lede

Discord has forums and enabling slowmode means that you can enforce longform content in them. The search in discord is better than any search in phpbb by miles, this isn't even an argument.

Discord moderation is easy. See something, right click, perform action. Automod. Bots. The entirety of the "Safety Setup" section on discord servers. Verification levels. I mean, it's not even remotely close. People arguing that forums are better are either delusional or have never really owned a remotely active discord server.

Users are capable of going to discord. The vast majority of your users already have a discord account too! Awesome!

Forums are a pain in the ass to moderate and maintain. If you need a knowledgebase, wikis exist.

As an open source developer.

Fuck that. Discord allows me to do so much and centralize communication. Small developers do not have the manpower to monitor multiple communications. I know people love to tout matrix, but it's features pale in comparison to discord.

Additionally, 99.9% of your users are already on discord. The other 0.1% are going to bitch and whine about the fact that you're not using matrix.

Torx is the only head that needs to exist. The rest can go fuck a rusty chainsaw.

It's worth remembering that the New York Post is essentially a right wing tabloid. Same with Washington Examiner.