“Discord’s official birthday is 2012, but it’s really 2009, when OpenFeint was created.”
OpenFeint took about $12 million in VC money, sold to a Japanese company for $104 million in 2011, and was dead by 2012. Discord rose from its ashes. ImageShack held 13 years of forum diagrams and deleted them when free stopped paying. Every community that moves its knowledge into Discord channels is building on the same floodplain, with no archive and no export.