The world is more reliant on Discord than we'd all probably like to admit. Forums live on Discord, development communities live on Discord, classrooms live on Discord, gaming voice chats live on Discord. Heck, I've even worked at a newsroom that used Discord as its workplace communication platform. People use the platform as personal file servers, password managers, and an assortment of other wacky deployments.
It's free and accessible to all, and that means people use it for all kinds of things. That creates a core problem — kids and teens are using the same platform as grown adults. While one Discord server might be used for education, another might be a NSFW chatroom. Age verification is becoming a hot topic in every corner of the internet as large platforms try to crack down on kids cosplaying as adults.
