• pixely@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I assumed there was something wrong with my setup because this UX is insane. Good to know it’s just shit.

    • gndagreborn@lemmy.world
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      2 months 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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        2 months 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 it 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.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 months 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.