Indeed. It sort of blows my mind that they cannot put a simple web UI up given all the resources they have at their disposal. To get midjourney, I need a midjourney account *and* a Discord account (I'm not a gamer).
EDIT: I don't know what you mean by having a discord account and a midjourney account, you log into billing by granting it access to your discord account - only one username/password is necessary.
Getting real time communication at scale is real tough, especially when Midjourney is from far the largest Discord server https://www.statista.com/statistics/1327141/discord-top-serv...
Fair enough, but maybe I don't want a community. Maybe I want an application that works like Photoshop, Gimp, Inkscape, Figma, etc. Or maybe I just want a query response website, like a classic search engine, or how OpenAI works.
I think the refusal to put up a web app just seems lazy.
Of course they could if they wanted to.
They think it's good to have the whole community on their discord channel, so people can see what other people are doing to inspire new users.
I'm not on it myself, so I can't comment on whether it works.
I don’t think that means they should only be available via Discord but not being “a gamer” isn’t a good reason to not use Discord on its own
Some of us consider more than 1 too many.