Low volume servers couldn't handle the traffic high traffic servers could. Got it. > but users don't really care about that compared to being able to read mes

Low volume servers couldn't handle the traffic high traffic servers could. Got it. > but users don't really care about that compared to being able to read messages sent when their computer was turned off or getting notifications on their phone, etc. I bet the also don't care about that compared to being able to actually send messages. You are apparently arguing something incredibly different than me. You seem to be arguing that bad UX leads to low load, which makes 100% uptime hard. I'm arguing that it's the centralization that makes it hard. You aren't addressing that. If Discord were decentralized, not all servers would have gone down today. Maybe not any. Maybe. But also, there are a lot of alternatives that have better UX. Zulip and Matrix come to mind.