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Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

discord is also the main place for reporting bugs related to the linux driver for xbox controllers, xone. I do not appreciate it.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wait, am I seeing correctly? Did they really go so far as to completely disable the issue system in GitHub in favor of Discord?

That's certainly a... choice.

[–] lechatron@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago

Also routing my calls to the phone app for no reason when I am clearly ACTIVE AND TYPING on PC.

And the opposite problem when you don't get message notifications on your phone because you forgot to close it on your PC.

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fuck Discord. It stole entire communities from us. It is the opposite of privacy. And, subjectively, their client applications are just a horrible mess.

[–] Tosti@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

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