This might be the longest informative post I have ever read on Steemit, the longer ones are either fiction or...real-life based fiction that rants the hell out of everything and is terribly painful to read :pain: :pain: :pain:
You basically forgot about Facebook Messenger, but since it is almost as terrible as a combination of Wechat and WhatsApp I think it's fine to leave it out. Lags the phone crazily, takes up an intense amount of space, WhatsApp-like notifications, pretty horrible administration functions, etc. I was the one who dragged all my friends from Facebook Messenger to Discord so...maybe I had the Post-Discord Syndrome but yeah, the only good thing I recall on Facebook Messenger is their chat heads and nothing else.
WhatsApp is really a genius who decided that storing media files directly on the phone is a good idea...now my phone is filled with assignment photos and those stuff. Best part? You can't get them back if you ever delete them. Pain. Meanwhile for the others...Discord had a terrible white theme, Wechat has too many stupid features packed into one messaging app and it is just stupidly engineered on Android...don't really have comments on the rest, but they are pretty much made for different purposes. Discord is perfect for communities, WhatsApp is slightly better for one-to-one communication (if it does not do stupid things to your media files like storing everything on your phone locally...), etc. But in any day I will still use Discord over any other messaging apps for all the reasons you listed above...unless their servers all die in a sudden or something :3 You can tell, my Post-Discord syndrome is really serious here.
And, nice Dad Bot feature here. Any suggestions for me to write an equally annoying bot? XD
Btw a fun fact: Discord is not banned in China, but when adding bots you need to go through reCaptcha, hence effectively banning that feature for China users LUL.
Imagine me adding in Facebook Messenger...
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OK I realy don't plan to put Facebook Messenger in at the beginning TBH. Cancerous. My tuition centre (it's a bot actually) pings me on Messenger every Monday, Thursday and Saturday for class nofications which I'm terribly annoyed about it. :pain:WhatsApp's media management is somehow nice, but I like Discord's better since it doesn't automatically store it in your internal storage, but it shows the preview pretty well without literally downloading and store it into your phone storage which is another pain to my potato phone :pain:
I got about 400MB worth of compressed of images waiting for me to import into the computer FYIIn a point of time, I really wanted to get my friends to get in Discord
and ditch WhatsApp for good. But the app description:-Discord - Chat for <b>Gamers</b>
:pain:One of the reasons people still prefer WhatsApp perhapsSomething like Dad Bot...
Dad is the most trollish one so far I seenI believe there's people using Discord in China too, since they are playing those mainstream games (LoL, DotA or any sort nom) and they also require something in terms of player-to-player communication.
Just VPN past reCaptcha and done lul