Part of me wonders if community moderation had something to do with it. With Discord, people have to know where to find your server link, and can be denied acce

Part of me wonders if community moderation had something to do with it. With Discord, people have to know where to find your server link, and can be denied access to various channels until they get past admin set verification rules. This makes it much harder for trolls or troublemakers to brigade a server compared to say, a subreddit, and makes it tricky for your enemies to go trawling through your chat history like on Reddit or what not. It really puts off the content scraping services you saw abusing social media sites a while back for clickbaity articles (like BuzzFeed, College Humour, etc), and shuts down attempts to turn niche communities into a moral panic in the mainstream media. Of course, these aren't the only reasons. Obviously the sheer ease of setting up a Discord server had a major effect, as did the pseudononymity, the voice chat features, the extra bells and whistles compared to IRC and Skype and the share URLs among other things. But I definitely feel the moderation may have had some effect, and may be partly why it seems to be replacing Reddit as the network of choice in gaming communities and what not.