So I'm flat out sick of discord and it's unfairness.

On December 3rd, 2018, there has been a mass banning of multiple members such as RicBent, shibboleet, Gimzie, naknow, newluigidev, Explos & Toms. Sounds familiar? These are the Super Mario Bros. Next developers.
The reason for all above members is that they "Violated the Discord TOS", yet that's not the case for most.

On December 1st, 2018, there has been a meme created by shibboleet that originated from MarioMaster's discord server. Basically, a bunch of users would change their name and avatar to "egbog". Some members decided to raid other servers with this new meme, in which the MMM discord server and the Horizon discord server were hit as well. The only person from the SMBNext development team that raided servers was Gimzie. Toms, Explos and the others didn't raid servers, and shibbo actively told others to not raid servers. Heck, RicBent wasn't aware of all what has happening, because he didn't even look inside the server for weeks. Though, that doesn't matter to the shameful Discord developers because some guy somehow got into the server and mass-reported everyone inside of it. The result? A bunch of people were banned (including some who left afterwards).

The worst thing of all this is how Discord handled it. So far, the only ban I think is *somewhat* justified is Gimzie's ban but that's because he raided. The rest however.....
According to the email RicBent got, it clearly states that a human (and not a bot) looked into the whole situation and found him guilty of breaking the TOS. Really? If they did really do their research, then why didn't they see that RicBent did nothing wrong? Why didn't they see that shibbo said that they should stop raiding? If RicBent really did violate the TOS, why didn't they explain *what* he broke in the email that he recieved.
Worst of all, the SMBNext team needed to make an entirely new server just because of this, because the owner of the server (Explos) got banned and huseyin was only a moderator, which means that they couldn't get their server back.

So RicBent tried to communicate with the discord three times on Twitter. He finally got a response...that he needed to do it via email. Why did they just avoid the question? I understand that it isn't your department, but you could have had it forwarded to your TOS handle team or whatever. It doesn't even matter, because they didn't even reply to the emails Gimzie & Toms sent to them.

But at last, they finally responded to RicBent's email. You thought they could redo their "investigation", but nope. You would expect the same treatment for everyone else, but that's not what happened.
Shibboleet, a user who owns Discord Nitro, is the only account that got unbanned out of this whole mess. Though, RicBent did literally nothing and yet he's still banned. That's preferism to the core. Like, how can that be justified?

Let's give a shortened down version of the issues with the Discord Team: They ban accounts for no reason, they fail to give legitimate support to their customers and are biased towards Nitro users

Should I add more to this list? Sure.


They keep on actively screwing its own userbase by adding in random nonsense (like the game store aka them trying to be a monopoly) instead of sticking to their promises. The worst part is, they laugh about their shitty practices on their Twitter. For example: the Light Theme.
It's completely unreadable and really hurts the eyes. So what do they do? Instead of fixing it or replacing it, they joke about how you would need a bunch of sunglasses in order to see it. It's worse than Mother 3 & Nintendo, because when the fans made a Mother 3 translation mod and Nintendo found out about it, they didn't kill the project. Discord? They say that using a modification to the client or enabling features that they purposely disabled (embeds on normal messages without links) is a bannable offense.

Overall, while Discord might look easy to use compared to traditional forums (like Mario Making Mods), they also come at a risk of trying to ingulf you and try to get full control over you. I'm still going to stay on discord, but that's because I can't just abandon the discord server like that. Plus, who's not to say that I'm not gonna be pushing out an update pretty soon that converts this entire website to use Bootstrap 4 (which should, in turn, make using the website much more easier)?

If you want an easy to use chat platform, just use IRC. It's open, self-hostable and has a multitude of clients (including a web client. The only way you can get that on Discord is through TitanEmbeds, which isn't that great).

Oh, they send that for everyone (Source). It's sad that they can't even treat it's own users as human beings, that's how much of a monopoly they've turned out to be.
They did the exact same thing to RicBent which just really annoys me. The worst part is, that while you and Ric are kept banned, Gimzie recently got unbanned even though he was way more guilty than the rest of the group.
They treat everyone like shit. Heck, one of the main Discord staff is just a ban happy cunt. The fact that discord keeps him even though r/gaming demoted him just says how lazy they are. Not like any of the other staff team are any better:


For me, my entire remains of my discord only depends on whether I want to abandon MMM or not, since people ( Buntendo is an example) are way too stuck up to Discord.
Last night, after Oman DMd me about a service called RocketChat, I went and asked GRAnimated what they think of it. He called it meh, even though it's basically Discord but has actual themes and self-hosted.

Oh, and by the way, they follow European law about underage. What's the problem? they actively enforce that. If you are caught to have an underage person on your discord server, they will ban you. I understand to take it out on the member themself but to take it out on a server owner? Who told them to do that? It's just unjust, and so is everything that's happened so far.

You think this entire thread is only talking about the raid? That's a dumb association to come to, considering its much more.

(Also, thanks to you, I found a little big with "Thread Review" on mobile.)

In the post right above yours, it states that someone was accused to be "underage" based off "investigation". It also states allthefoxes is a ban happy cunt.

I'm sick of the way discord treats people. Heck, you guys should try out Rocket.Chat. It looks really decent

Well, I get what you're saying noirscape, but I got some new information regarding Discord and the underage stuff: If you ever joke about being underage, you will get banned, even though they are fully aware that you're joking. And wouldn't you know, Toms was right: They send the same copypaste message to every member. This isn't even the first time they did this, but they try to cover it up.

What's worse: they permanently deleted all the old accounts by now. Goodbye Toms, RicBent & Explos's old account. All because one person decided to be lazy and instead of throughly investigating, just banned everyone in one server, even though some of them didn't even raid

Ah, that's just a flat out lie: https://imgur.com/cmGzw4E

I'd also like to mention another way they are unproffesional: They actively encourage making new accounts, instead of, ya know, reactivating the old ones (the one with all the friends and messages under the account) even though they are flat out aware that they're wrong.

Also, more instance if the no fun aloud thingy: https://imgur.com/a/IWndDv9

Just, yikes from this company. I wonder why I even joined this service in the first place.

Edit: Since I'm gonna be posting this on the r/discordapp reddit page after I update MakerBoard, I figured I might as well add one last bit of information on how ban-happy they are:
Look at the post made by SargentD.
I don't think I need to explain why that's wrong

Wow, a month has gone by. Has anything changed at all about my stance of discord? Yes: I dislike it even more.



These people are one of the most biased staff members I have ever seen.

They ban people who dislike furries
They unban people who have nitro.

This kind of stuff needs to be shown to everyone. Unfortunately, when I tried showing it in the r/discordapp subreddit, a discord suckup was trying to stand his ground by ignoring everything I said and just assuming everything in this thread.

Also, I'd like to bring up a conflicting point made in the video: The guy states that you can't ban evade. Then why do they actively encourage it?
If it looks like I'm angry over this and I'm just an angry teenager, well, that's because I am. They keep on doing stuff like this and it's really irritating.

Also, they actively try to go against other people's privacy: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/316917324806356994/535398816120307722/unknown.png

Just, like, yikes from this service. Unfortunately, no one wants to switch over to anything else (rocketchat being a good example of underrated) so I guess we're stuck like this.