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Discord is the core product for the company that owns it. Skype was just another product for Microsoft. So the owners of Discord have a much stronger incentive to keep it functional.

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Skype was the primary product of Skype Inc. They were bought by Microsoft. Since Discord is VC funded, they are probably also going to be bought up.

Their primary incentive is for it to be lucrative.

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