But reveals it step-by-step. When you click on a Discord link without an account, it says: Hello! What is your name? You check there are no faefolk around, and then type your name. Now you are in the chat room and you can chat to people.

A lot of discords have hoop jumping for rules or explainers. Then Nitro nags almost immediately and periodically thereafter. Server ops beg for Nitro boosts/packs.

I've gotten through a few of these, but they're not trivial.

But the friend group server won't have hoops, and the other nags while annoying don't act as a barrier to basic use.

discord lost me at having to use task manager to shut it down on Windows.

I am using it every day but never saw the need to download it.