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How Discord Went Mainstream

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Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by 2038AD »

SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

I'm not a fan of Discord but I think you're mistaken.

Right click on the channel icon and go to 'Notification Settings' rather than clicking on 'Server Mute'. From there you can choose whether a mention (inc./ex. @everyone/@here) counts and whether mobile notifications are enabled.

As for the client you may want to try Ripcord[0]. It uses less memory though I'm not sure you can mute people the same way. While I don't think it's ever enforced, technically using other clients is against the Discord ToS.

Either way there are plenty of reasons not to use Discord if you can.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by fvjft »

Semaphor wrote: post #17
fvjft wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apart from the (more than obvious) technical feats, they've raised a lot of money and can afford to offer all of their services, some of them a bit expensive, for free. If they can't find a way to monetise, though, they'll be in trouble. Had TeamSpeak or Mumble been able to offer hosted services for free, maybe Discord wouldn't have existed.

They have pushed monetization recently. Discord Nitro went from custom id, animated avatar and all emotes of all your servers everywhere to a game subscription service (obviously while raising the price)

I looked at the games when they launched and they all were indie rubbish, so what can I tell you.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by SeanDav »

2038AD wrote: post #21
SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

I'm not a fan of Discord but I think you're mistaken. Right click on the channel icon and go to 'Notification Settings' rather than clicking on 'Server Mute'. From there you can choose whether a mention (inc./ex. @everyone/@here) counts and whether mobile notifications are enabled. As for the client you may want to try Ripcord[0]. It uses less memory though I'm not sure you can mute people the same way. While I don't…

Thanks for the ripcord suggestion!

As far as server/channel mute - believe me, I have tried every option, including your suggestions. It works for most servers but I have 2 that I can't mute no matter what I try.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by Semaphor »

fvjft wrote: post #23
Semaphor wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have pushed monetization recently. Discord Nitro went from custom id, animated avatar and all emotes of all your servers everywhere to a game subscription service (obviously while raising the price)

I looked at the games when they launched and they all were indie rubbish, so what can I tell you.

Besides a bunch of lootbox stuff for the kiddie shooters, there is Civ IV, XCOM:EU, Bioshock 1&2, Metro 2033 Redux, Project Highrise, Metro Last Light Redux, OOTP18, Tyranny, and so on.

Most of those are not for me, but Indie rubbish seems a bit off.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by chrisan »

SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

I've never used the browser tab but the desktop client you can server mute where you also have to select "suppress @everyone and @here" if you want a true mute besides @yourname

The desktop client had issues with FPS drop in games. You can disable Hardware Acceleration in the Appearance section and your FPS returns to normal. I guess you'd have to find the browser setting, maybe you can do it per tab?

I'm in about 20+ channels and memory on windows is 135MB

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by chrisan »

ktpsns wrote: post #13
gaspoweredcat wrote: post #2

maybe im just getting old but i cant really understand the runaway success of discord, it seems awfully similar to IRC to me

I recently looked into Discord since ~4yrs, and noticed the UI looks almost exactly like a copy of Slack ( http://www.slack.com ).

And both look like copies of mIRC with added features. And I'm sure mIRC copied their layout from someone else

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by ngrilly »

wetpaws wrote: post #19
ngrilly wrote: post #15

What do you think of Telegram, compared to Discord? Telegram has one feature I miss in Discord: quote replies. It makes easier to follow conversations in a crowded channel. It is the most upvoted feature in the Discord feedback tool: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600... . But Telegram misses a lot of things provided by Discord: multiple channels on the same server to organize conversations,…

Discord is a replacement for irc, telegram is a replacement for messenger/blogs. You can't really compare them, it's like matching oranges and apples.

I agree that Telegram is primarily a messaging app like WhatsApp or Messenger.

But its group feature has become really powerful, and can be used as an alternative to IRC (except for the fact that a "group" can't be divided in multiple channels).

Some Mozilla groups have been using Telegram for some time: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telegram

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by fouc »

One thing that really irritates me about Discord is that it has really crappy low-contrast dark & light themes. And it's not theme-able at all. At least slack's default light theme is high contrast and also slack is theme-able.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by chrisan »

worble wrote: post #14
s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People were tired of getting DDoS'ed so they switched away from Skype/Teamspeak. The nice UX makes it easy for everyone to use, and the community aspect is appealing. IRC isn't very easy to use for the common person.

>The nice UX makes it easy for everyone to use Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but am I the only one who finds the UX to be atrocious? Everything seems to a nondescript icon that rarely represents what it's supposed to do, nearly everything is flat so it's hard to tell what you can actually click on and whats decoration. Everytime I use it feels like an exercise in mental gymnastics just to navigate it.

Have an example? Everything I click on has some action I can do.

I'm 40 and grew up on mIRC, Discord feels a natural evolution with all the new features.

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