All y'all hip folks on Discord rather than Slack for classes, etc. can I ask why? They seem very similar on first glance but maybe I'm missing a key difference or twenty. My grad class at least will likely avoid the uni's CMS so I'm looking for a way to structure chat &c.

I've heard both 1. students prefer Slack because they use it in their jobs, internships, etc. and 2. students prefer Discord because they're sick of Slack from their jobs, internships. Seems both could be true, depending on which students one asks

I think in some ways I've avoided Discord precisely *because* I hear it's popular with students in other contexts. Feels a bit like the creepy treehouse, dropping into a platform students love for other reasons & trying to make it an official class thing—I may be overthinking