just a little question to throw in, why Discord, why not something like Mastodon?
Discord is being criticized a lot in actual times …
I understand your question but I’m afraid I was not around at the time to answer why discord was chosen however. Mastodon is not really an alternative as its a social media platform more relating to Twitter, We did look at Matrix and Revolt both are opensource chat solutions and we may open a server on 1 of them in the future. If i had to take a wild guess on why Keegan picked Discord at the time it’s prob because it was very popular and most users already had an account on it.
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yes in the old days Discord was liked and popular, anyhow not a big deal,
just being curious.
I know only that Revolt is an open-source alternative to Discord, since Matrix is so absolutely “paranoid” , I would prefer Revolt, just my opinion I do not want to interfere, just spreading my opinion 
I think popularity might have been the main reason. Not many users would create an account on a new platform. Discord has been quite popular with programmers, gamers, and casual users. So it stuck.