The Devs apparently learned very little from the bad aspects of Eureka.

[ForteNightshade]

you don't own the portals, anyone has the right to use them, square gave people the option to get quaranteed portals but they did not feel like doing that.
Personally I can't join discord because I don't have any device which can use it.

Neither do you. Except you're then asking those same people who you took a portal from to help you clear. Not exactly hard to imagine why they wouldn't, especially when there's a system setup specifically to mitigate this exact situation.

And how are you typing on this forum? Discord has a mobile version.