Discord has always been IRC with extra censorship and spying. Nothing really new, here. Just use IRC.

If you have any hope of replacing Discord, you need to actually understand Discord. Among many other things, people use Discord because it has persistent history, integrated images and videos, video and audio calls, and screen sharing.

If you can't think of good reasons for why someone might use discord over IRC, you probably haven't thought about this enough.

IRC sucks tho. It doesnt have half the features that make discord enjoyable.

it’s not that simple. many (if not most) people would rather be where everyone already is, even if there’s less privacy

? What's going on man? I... didn't use any math in my comment?

The commenter above is saying that your suggestion that there is some contradiction here indicates a mathematical error. The post claims 60% have read a book; you claim 20% can't read at all; both can be true.

Yeah… I didn’t say they both weren’t true due to a mathematical error… I was insinuating that the survey is probably flawed because if 20% of Americans can’t read… they likely aren’t even taking this survey.

It is also my uneducated guess that the actual percentage of Americans who haven’t read a single book in the past year is MUCH higher than 40%. Maybe a survey of HN commentators but not of the general population.