• gndagreborn@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Thank God im not the only one. I feel like I’m going crazy when all my friends do nothing but worship discord.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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        12 days ago

        I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.

        Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use ot to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.

        Oh well, maybe I’m old.

        • xylol@leminal.space
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          12 days ago

          I’ve never really seen that much color on it, but I use dark mode so its basically just dark gray and white font, we transitioned from slack a few years ago when I joined a community for drone stuff but over time people stopped flying drones and played games more

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          12 days ago

          My understanding is that the core appeal is that they provide free private VoIP service, which was something that a lot of people wanted for multiplayer games.

          I don’t use that, and like you, I have not been very impressed with their chat stuff.

      • Gerudo@lemm.ee
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        12 days ago

        Not at all. I loathe discord with a passion. I can’t understand how such a unintuitive piece of software gained such mainstream acceptance.

        • Redex@lemmy.world
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          12 days ago

          What do you find unintuitive? Of all the complaints I personally never found it unintuitive to use.

          • Gerudo@lemm.ee
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            12 days ago

            Everything? It’s hard to describe, but anytime I want to do anything, it just seems like the menu is in the wrong spot, or I have to jump through hoops to do what needs to get done.

            • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              12 days ago

              That would be from the 8 redesigns they’ve done in the past year or so. Not going to praise the dumpster fire, but intuitiveness has not been an issue for most of discords common uses. If you were incessantly messing with settings of a server though, that’d track.

              • Gerudo@lemm.ee
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                12 days ago

                Oh, this is day one, I have loaded it up like once in the last year. I’m not the only one who says it either. Back in the day on reddit, I’d post about it and would always have tons of people agree.

                I can deal with Gimp and all kinds of alt versions of popular software all day long with minimal hassle learning new UI. Discord, for being the most popular software of its platform, for some reason, just doesn’t click for me. Why ventrillo didn’t keep the crown amazes me.

                I’ll just go back to being the old man yelling at the clouds.

  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
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    13 days ago

    check out vencord (or vesktop) just in time for discord to completely enshittify. while you’re looking, consider something like revolt chat instead?

    • Colloidal@programming.dev
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      13 days ago

      Oh that looks nice! I was using Dissent which is very light on resources but I kept running on a couple issues. I’ll try that.

      • Kyouki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Another one I can recommend is equibop (web version wrap of Discord) and equicord (discord client modification with vencord)

    • squinky@lemm.ee
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      12 days ago

      Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.

    • paequ2@lemmy.today
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      13 days ago

      Yep. I didn’t realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.

    • Tyoda@lemm.ee
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      12 days ago

      Recently, while it was “out of date” and refusing to run but not yet updated in the Arch repo, I started wondering why I don’t just use the website. I now use the website.

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.

        I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it’s supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.

          • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            13 days ago

            Element has audio issues on Linux? Didn’t notice it when I tested whether Matrix had what I needed (a month past). I’ll see if it screws up if I try again now.

            • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              13 days ago

              Audio doesn’t seem to stream over Element regardless of operating system, I’m on Debian 12 and my buddies are on Windows, neither stream audio.

              Also Mobile devices lack streaming out-right.

              • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                13 days ago

                That’s weird. I just tested it with a friend (I’m on Endeavour, she’s on Win11, the server is VPS with Debian running the newest Synapse and Element-web). Audio works fine both ways with no mic config required, streaming is a little laggy when viewing the screen and stream next to each other, but that’s all.

                EDIT: No, you’re right. Audio within streams seem to fail. I remember Discord having the same problem (hence why I use Vesktop), but if Windows also suffers this shortcoming? I’m pretty sure I remember it working a month ago, so there should be a bug report in Synapse (or element).

        • applemao@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          Thats the thing…there’s no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.

          • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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            12 days ago

            I have been using Discord since the beginning in 2015 and back then I got people to Discord because it was cheap and offered more features. Currently the only way I convince people to swtich from Discord (or from Whatsapp) is either if they are privacy focussed or the alternative is way more convient or cheaper.

        • KiwiTB@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          That’s great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it’s looking like time to leave soon.

            • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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              12 days ago

              Discord was really good in the first couple years. Way better than the alternatives in almost everything except sound quality. And getting virusses wasn’t as easy as it was on TeamSpeak3 back then.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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      13 days ago

      When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.

      In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Discord has become really annoying to use with all the ads. I confine it to my browser because I don’t trust it.

      With that said, I used to run Flatpak version and it never had this issue.

  • MemmingenFan@feddit.org
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    13 days ago

    Just because there is a new minor version you don’t to update it immediately. Except for security updates of course.

      • azezeB@discuss.tchncs.de
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        13 days ago

        I think there is some way to actually bypass the forced update, i don’t recall the specifics but it had something to do with some discord settings.json

        • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          They force you to update even if you bypass the forces updated after a little bit. They just flat out block the connection server side. There are zero long term solutions.

          You are required to update. Full stop. Sooner or later.

  • radish@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I wrote a small bash script to curl the latest .deb, install it, and delete it because i was having this problem too. shame it can’t just auto-update or let me use the old version

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I don’t use a Debian based distro like Ubuntu anymore (arch BTW), but could you not just add their repo and do an apt update && apt upgrade?

    Honestly, I really dislike apt and how you have to add random repos which is why I don’t use it anymore. I moved away even before snaps.

    Ps, I love the AUR.

  • Envy@fedia.io
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    13 days ago

    Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I’m gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!