I’ve looked for something else that has same audio filtering quality, group voice chats and screen sharing with audio, for free. I didn’t find it.

People spend a lot of time in voice chats in private rooms with their friends. Voice quality and filtering is supremely important to those users. Once you get used to the ease of access of screen sharing, you will miss it if it’s gone.

I think the forum thread functionality and projects moving their support and communities to Discord only happens because it’s a platform where people are already on. Discord doesn’t need to be good at those things. Primarily people use Discord to voice chat in private rooms and game while talking. I have access to rooms with friends and acquaintances, where there are people in voice chat, doing stuff all hours of the day. I can drop in and see what they are up to and join in, if I so desire. Often they are screen sharing what they are doing for one reason or another.

A competitor has to do what Discord does and better to get it’s users. It also has to be free.

I once replaced a cheap pair of adapters with a more expensive pair. Was night and day for my network stability. I know it’s hit or miss, depending on your wiring and location. But the adapters themselves can differ.