I wanted a solution I could self host. Discord doesn’t allow self-hosting, and at least according to their feedback forum, they don’t plan to[0]. I remember reading an explanation (an FAQ on their site I think, but can’t find it now). It was to the effect of “Our CI strategy is designed to provide all users with the best experience, so we can’t allow versions to get too far behind…” or something like that. Whatever their reasoning they’re closed source, proprietary, and commercial, and unlike SelfHosted [1], I don’t mind the hosting fees or extra work to run it myself.

Edit: grammar

[0] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600301... [1] https://blog.ktz.me/self-hosted-launches-a-discord-server/