Just created my first discord server after seeing so many people from here mention it. The questions I have are, why? What makes it better than say slack or something else? Is it prone to spam or bots? How is it for gaming?

It has a lot of gaming integrations and so far i never had a problem with spamming. The API is relatively easy to use and the bot community is usually nice.

The target audience are gamers, who don't want to pay for a communication service. Slack is superior in every aspect I can find, except that you need to pay to get infinite message logs.

Discord is just like Skype and slack but for gaming. Also, lots of integrations in gaming

Slacks backend is poorly written in PHP and their API is as pleasant as crabs from street hookers.

I love how its an electron app and eats up ram, but somehow supposed to be ran while gaming

@tekashi have you seen how much RAM and CPU that slack takes up!? I restarted computer and when slack launched it was taking up 80% of my i7-8700k! Fuck electron and fuck whoever's idea of was to have each slack group be its own process!

also it has some ties to china or so I keep hearing.

Don't send noods over discord.

Some com-intern batshit crazy chinaman spook is gonna be beating his little vienna sausage to your birthday suit pics if you do.

May that you say true