But you can easily test this yourself: Go and try to create a new Discord account without a phone number. Then try to use it.
I couldn’t, Discord immediately forces me to add a phone number on login.
Maybe it’s regional? Or they have different behavior based on your email address provider?
I gave up on having a second account.
You don’t get it. Server settings are only one part of it, Discord also has their own account wide policies.
For example I had a second account I used on Discord. Verified email, used it for years on and off every now and then. Last time I tried to login? No longer possible, I need to add a valid phone number and verify it. I couldn’t even get back into the account at all!
No way around it, if Discord flags your account for whatever reason they log you out and force you to add a phone number. All it might take is you pressing logout once and next time you try to login you’re blocked. If even that.
That’s an old account then. New ones don’t work without. And at some point they suddenly force you to add a number out of nowhere.
If you want to use Discord nowadays you need a valid phone number, that’s it.
Either you agree with it and use their service, or you don’t and delete your account with all your data.
They use this to battle spam accounts (with quite some success, been over a year since I’ve been contacted by scammers), there is no good way around it.
And talks about a time before the internet while he looks what? 30-40 in that image?
Yes, things are bloated and slow, it’s annoying. But the article didn’t add much or go into the reasons why.
It’s a language model, it can’t even do math reliably. Yes, it produces code that works sometimes, but it also hallucinates functions that don’t exist or can introduce bugs you won’t notice at first glance.
And writing a script is different than extending an existing code base. How often do you really start a greenfield project?
I wouldn’t even know how to input a code base into ChatGPT to extend, do you just throw in hundreds of files with a 100k+ lines of code?
I personally like to keep it on. Most of my messaging is with family and friends and it’s good to know if someone read or hasn’t read my message.
Especially if things are time critical. Picking someone up? Asking if they need anything from the supermarket? If I see that they read the message I know that they are going to reply in a moment. If they didn’t even read the message I won’t have to wait around / can guess that they are currently in the car or wherever.
Sometimes you also have a spotty connection, so the received + read receipt can tell you if they actually got your message.
In general if someone sends me a message and I read it… I’m going to fucking reply to it (if I’m not super busy, and even then I might send a quick message back). I seriously don’t get people who just leave things on read and then forget about it.