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Um. As a simple place for a group to chat and communicate via text?
Signal / WhatsApp are messengers, they're meant for 1 to 1 or small groups. They don't handle large groups well, for which you want things like rooms, roles, moderation, etc. Different niches.
Yeah, I run a hobby club with like 200 members in discord. Handling that in WhatsApp or signal would be such a pain.
Discord's great for that. But so many games and software are using it instead of forums or proper issue trackers now. It's a pretty serious downgrade.
Yeah I get the downside of those. But I find it weird how so many people blast discord when it's just about the only option for simple modern text based chat groups