Discord is definitely worse. at least for technical communities. There's no need for a project or a technical community to have many channels. you need #project

Discord is definitely worse. at least for technical communities. There's no need for a project or a technical community to have many channels. you need #project-support and #project-development that's basically it, having an entire server for that is way overkill, and whoever wants more, there's always email or a forum (Hell, you can just run host a fossil server which has a forum/chat now). I understand easy phone access, but discord is not it, if anything, Telegram, offer a IRC+ for the modern era.