Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

Discord is a disjointed mess that is being abused by many to fill a role it was never designed to fill.

No, I don't want to join your discord to use a half assed search to be able to dig my way through what you think is an FAQ about your game.

Bullshit. Its on a quest to monetize the platform, thats all its doing.

If it wanted to be a better communication platform it wouldnt be adding all this pointless superfluous shit that exists only for nickle and diming.

idk how else to put it, but discord feels like an information black hole with adhd

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It was a great messaging app, before all the extra bullshit was added to it. The focus was on doing one thing, and doing it right. Now they do 35 different things, and abandon them in favor of mtx for profiles

If they could stop trying to foist nitro on me that would be great.

Walled-gardens are fundamentally bad for communication. Discord is not a solution, it’s a problem.

I miss the early days of Discord. Nowadays it's just a lot of advertising for their Nitro service.

Not even their marketing videos are fun anymore. Why can't they just bring Zencha back?

"Better messaging app" my bubble ass

Keeps changing ui every month for no reason Keeps adding disgracting prolife fluff that looks like shit. (Neither can be turned off) Support is abbysmal. Linux client is garbage. (Screenshare anyone) Bloated mess. Hates mods and custom clients. Too big ( had a server of 3k people, know how many people I got to switch?90) Their team us a bunch of pedophile furry porn lovers.

Fuck. Them.

Here's an idea to start making it better: ditch fucking electron. There are alternatives that won't need complete code rewrite or language change (tauri, neutralino). Better yet, actually go ahead with a full language change and pick Dart + Flutter, that shit is crossplat.

But we all know they won't, because fuck you, "ram is cheap". Good luck upgrading the ram on your phone.

Are they? How? This article doesn't explain anything about functioning, just some design changes.

Discord is an absolute piece of garbage, it's not a good messaging app, definitely not a good place to host a community (seriously, I don't understand why some communities saw Discord as an alternative after the Reddit API changes), and most importantly, it's spyware. The company doesn't have a business model and it was founded by a guy who is notorious for creating random shit that's not economically sustainable at all. I don't understand why anyone would use this shit. This video outlines everything that's wrong with Discord: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU

Switch to Revolt or Matrix

Is it becoming FOSS or supporting any meaningful level privacy?

They need to try way harder.

Discord is spyware and all of my friends are the laziest most boring people for thinking they should spend their entire social lives on one app.

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Yeah, there is one way to make it better, but it won't happen until they're forced to change: force them to integrate with the matrix protocol

yes, I know that it's possible to use a bridge, and I do it, but it still requires a discord account, it would be great if discord rooms were just accessible with the matrix protocol

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I can not find anything in there. I can not favorite messages to find them again. It is a hole where everything your write is virtually there, but practically lost.

Take those paywalls down.

If I wanted to get there I wouldn't start from here.

What are people using for gaming/chat other than discord?

Discord is the primary voice chat platform for a lot of my gaming groups, and half the time it can’t even detect the correct mic or output. Also routing my calls to the phone app for no reason when I am clearly ACTIVE AND TYPING on PC.

I don’t need another messaging app, I need an actual seamless voice chat experience.

I already have too many chat apps. STAHP

one day it will need to become profitable and suddenly it will be a pile of shit

hah, I haven't updated mine since they switched from a native app to react native.

It's going the complete wrong way if so.

They could fucking start by going bankrupt so open source alternatives that actually give a shit about privacy can take over. Revolt chat is objectively superior to discord

You guys are saying discord is bad but yet you are not offering any alternatives so I'm going to keep using discord

Just read the headline... Will it stop spying on me o und which Servers i am?

I'm not sure what everyone is complaining about in the comments. I use discord pretty much constantly and at all times.

Nitro ads? It's 1 very minor ad when you launch the app. Then there's no more ads.

Not as good as forums? Bull. I get an answer to my question immediately on discord. I may never find the answer to my question by sifting through dozens of pages of forum posts of someone having a similar but not congruent problem to mine.

Can't find information? Discord has integrated forums with a search feature in each server.

Bloated? How so? You have an inbox and you have your list of servers on the left hand side. Okay, some of the options are a little obscured, but it's not like Discord is doing anything except connecting like minded people via text and voice/video chat.

I sincerely don't know what anyone is talking about. But part of me thinks it's because discord doesn't have E2E encryption and yall wanna discuss some naughty shit.