It doesn’t help that almost everyone good enough to crack it gets paid really well to improve it.
Empress being a notable exception cos she’s insane
Do you know if Sublinks will be compatible with existing mobile apps like Eternity?
Revolt is a FOSS discord clone, where its possible to self host a server. They’re very small though, something like 120K users and the devs are uni students. Funnily, they just moved to the Discrim model.
Currently only available through web and windows store though.
Despite their reputation for being quick, my opinion is that Nintendo does often take their time. Most of the things they take down do exist for months or years (and also follow the same format of a ROM hack that got a lot of attention so easy copy paste). My assumption is they’re just dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s and patent is just what they think they’ll have the best chance at winning.