Really? What in their status update read to you as "the problem is on our side, not yours"? Understand that I'm a programmer and couldn't figure that out.
Is it just me or are Discord's status updates legendarily bad to the point of being entirely useless? As a user of the discord app, don't tell me the "API is having issues." Just tell me, "Discord is currently down. We are working on it and apologise for the disruption." Everything else is unnecessary line noise.
Garmin is the perfect example of a company that could have been displaced by the advent of smartphones with built in GPS receivers (which probably cannibalized the market for dedicated GPS devices in cars) but has remained relevant due to how they've explored other form factors.
My Garmin FR235 is an indispensable part of my running gear, and no mobile phone has come even close to replicating it.
It's funny to see this. I have a similar story about a MMORPG I've been playing for the better part of 20 years. It's got more in common with MUDs than typical MMORPGs and is an enforced roleplaying environment.
I've personally been volunteering my time to help add new features on the client and server for the past few years. The game is entirely free to play -- no adware junk or anything like that -- but sadly the community is tiny.
Whilst we were in lockdown the first time, I wrote a small Logo interpreter for my son with almost exactly the same commands: https://freememory.github.io/azlogo/ (https://github.com/freememory/azlogo)
My code isn't nearly as elegant, not at all animated, and my parsing is awful but I had a lot of fun doing it.
There's something magical about Logo, and even now as an adult of almost 40 I continue to enjoy playing with it and making pretty line graphics.