Discord should be avoided as a communications platform. I don't see a single point that makes me want to use it.
It has no customization or designing flexibility, you are forced to stick to one design unless you pay for a stupeid & an expensive subscription. Otherwise you need to use potentially unsafe third party tools for it and even those go against Discord's ToS.
It is a non-private, non-secure and overtly commercialized product that should be put in the bin. But thanks to the virtual monopoly in creating a social platform (also thanks to the tech-illiterate influencers for promoting it) for more than just "Chatting for gamers", as it was originally intended for. Discord in its current state is nothing more than just a commercial market where you are the commodity. Its not a social platform.
I don't want to give out my data and message history for some company to sell to be able to discuss about your project on GitHub, or even be able to communicate with you.
The client is garbage as well unless you own a super expensive rig.
I abandoned Discord completely more than half an year ago with the vow of never registering again. I completely shifted my comms to Matrix & Signal. I have not been more at peace since.
If you manage a public project you wish for people to interact with. I request you to at least keep a mirror/bridge on XMPP, Matrix or even Revolt. Please choose something open source, private and secure for the sake of other people.
The client is garbage as well unless you own a super expensive rig.
What are you on about with this? Discord has its criticisms but this is stretching it.
This is not at all stretching it. Discord's client is very poorly optimized and bloated and it is known since a long time. I could never run it on my hardware with a comfortable experience. Even some of my friends would ask me to look for and provide them older versions of the app because each update would make it laggier for them to use. I don't live in a First or Second world country with a good paying job. Most electronics are imported here and cost a lot.
Dude discord and whatever game I'm playing crashes at least twice a day. No crash without discord. It's just trash
I wish it was more simple.
The official matrix.org server is completely stripped down and removes a lot of features, and Element as a client is nowhere near as good as anything else.
Element X (with the sliding sync support) does fix the massive issue of absolutely horrifically slow syncing.
None of Matrix comes anywhere near the levels of usability Discord has and nor does Element, Discord's server-chat model is unbeatable in this aspect.
as much as i agree,
- accessibility is usually pretty horrendous on most matrix clients, none i could find have full, proper reduced motion support, which i need to properly use pretty much any piece of software. discord is far from perfect in this regard, and getting worse and worse, but still miles ahead of most chat apps i've tried, especially proprietary ones. I have barely used revolt, and in my memory it's far worse than discord, and i have yet to figure out how xmpp works...
- none of my friends are on it. while i could convince some to move, here discord is already a quite "niche" chat service, and as a student, i'm more or less required to be on any chat service whatever group project i need to do is organised. same with friend groups, i'm usually not a "group leader", and join in friend groups that already exist, so it's much harder to insist on moving anyone over to a new thing no one but me has ever used before
- ux isn't great. it's improving, but i've had quite a few "key exchange" issues with matrix especially... Also, i found most clients quite messy, but that's more to personal taste!
Gimme IRC "2.0" and I'll be happy.
Plenty of people still on IRC. Often through (matrix) bridges, but the terminal clients are still actively developed.
I use discord because my two friends use it when we talk every once in a while and its the tool they know and are comfortable with. They don't live at their computers and do not bother. I don't use it other than that.
I'm gonna look into matrix though. If no one adopts an alternative, it will never be standard. And matrix is a cool name.
same here with the friends situation i also do design commissions and I'm in a few small niche hobby servers. I do have Revolt just in case...
Well, it's the standard now. I don't like it either because of their gratuitous data storage, but what other choice do I have? All my friends and communities use it.
I don't use it much, but as far as I can tell, it's IRC with a bunch of features that would have significantly improved IRC.
yeah discord sucks
I only use it to pirate music
I’m gonna preface this with I haven’t used discord in a year or so.
It’s kinda fun watching a new generation go through their first redesign outrage.
Youtube should still have the description over there👉. Putting it down there 👇 will always suck
You'll have to pry theater mode out of my cold, dead hands.
what's wrong with it
if you mean the mobile one, it's a pretty great upgradeOne of my favorite things about discord was the fact that your experience was similar on both mobile and desktop. I honestly thought it was fantastic from a UX perspective since your knowledge of the app transferred easily between platforms. The new update destroys that and tosses out a large amount of shared knowledge.
Another, more important, complaint is the changes to the colors/themes makes the accessibility significantly worse no matter what theme you use for anyone with eye issues. They changed the light mode font to gray???? They reduced the contrast on the other modes significantly making it genuinely difficult to read text on a MESSAGING APP.
To me this whole thing, and the earlier username changes, feel like changing for the sake of changing rather than actually improving anything. This is just for the shareholders and not because literally anyone asked for it.
Also why is dms it's own tab I really liked that they were listed next to the servers!
Good advice, I'd follow it
This app is awful now. There was literally nothing wrong about the old UI. They went and messed it all up.
It had all kinds of rendering bugs on the iPad
u may use Aliucord
I also use aliucord and it helps but it's against TOS so who knows our accounts could get banned any day
Very unlikely to get detected.
Delete your account using this one weird trick!
I have security concerns with an app that's been modified by a 3rd party, not to mention it's an ancient version as well.
All patches should be open source / freely to inspect afaik, I think the official installation process even involves patching an official Discord .apk file locally
You can downgrade to version 199.15 to get rid of the new ui without using a third party modified client
Honestly I like the new UI. Takes a bit of getting used to after knowing the old one for so long but it makes more sense in the end.
The channel switcher, one of my most frequently used features, is now hidden away on top of the channel list instead of a prominent place in the middle of the bottom bar of the swipe-right menu. Going from a DM conversation to a specific channel, instead of "swipe right, tap channel switcher" (so I can type 3 letters of the channel name and switch to it) became "swipe left, tap 'servers' twice, tap the search box". I like most of the other changes, but this really irks me and makes my mobile discording much less efficient :(
If it works just the same, why would they just outright delete the UI most of us like? There's no good reason not to have options.
not saying that i don't hate the UI changes with my entire being, but there is absolutely a good reason to not keep the old one. that would mean that discord would have to support two entirely different codebases that would both have to be modified independently whenever they wanted to e.g. add a new feature
What about taking a Winamp approach. One discord, but downloadable skins.
Ah fair enough.
Solve the problem with the problem
