The chat, admin and moderation features in discord have huge value and are costly to build. The anti-bot protection and built in permission system especially.

The chat, admin and moderation features in discord have huge value and are costly to build. The anti-bot protection and built in permission system especially. They focus their resource on their product, while exposing it to mostly geek. I would have never though it would be a good idea, but it proved to be a good choice.