This has not been my experience. Compared to slack they are moving much faster

I think they've been iterating fairly quickly tbh. Loads of improvements for bots (slash commands, modals, buttons, message context menu api, etc), threads, these 'forum channels'.

Whatever you can say about Discord's iteration speed, Slack is 100x slower.

What? discord is iterating so rapidly API lib/bot devs can barely keep up

They just replaced the Android app with a react native monstrosity so slow I can read a page while it loads a conversation.