If Discord wants to win me over, they need to adjust their layout & themes. The default dark mode and the light mode both are not comfortable to me, and I'm someone that likes the default Slack theme or irssi/weechat in terminal on a black background.
Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
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Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
#362I have a bad feeling about this. Discord essentially does one thing really well. I don't want to see it go down the way of so many chat platforms trying to be everything and becoming a bloated mess. Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt. It makes me despair of business models which re…
>>It makes me despair of business models which require growth to be chased at all costs. It's a general approach seen here on HN. Unless a company is growing every year by 10% or more, it's a failure. Like.....what's wrong with just making few million dollars a year for years, without taking a billion dollar investment and growing into the stratosphere?
In chat app this is not so much an option because network effects. Nobody will use 17 chat app with a different for each thing, only 4 or 5.
Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
#363I just wish it would close when you click the X. Instead it minimizes. Steam does this too, I can't believe Microsoft allows this behavior.
Then open the settings and turn off Minimize to Tray?
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Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.
Agreed. I personally found them to be like "wow, look how hip we are young children".
I'll throw in my 2c and say that I thought they were just fine. I wasn't verbally guffawing at their Sims-esque loading humor but the first time I saw it I thought "oh heh they're doing the sims thing" and then literally never thought overmuch about it again.
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You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.
Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.
I agree with you. I like Discord, but the messages felt very forced. "Hello fellow kids" style. Forced fun, if you will. I loathe forced fun. heh
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> Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt. This is funny because my impression was that Discord users by and large hated those messages.
They should just have a separate platform mode. Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.
They should use a different name then, because "discord" doesn't exactly conjure up images of handshakes and smiling people sitting in meeting rooms in stock photos.
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Discord has done some shady stuff for quite some time. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_use...
I use Discord in a web browser for these reasons. The web sandbox has benefits.
Does the web version work on mobile?
I recall Slack's web app working on my tablet, but I think they may have disabled that now.
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There are so many different varieties of sense of humor. It varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person. It's one thing if a joke is actually harmful, of course. But, beyond that, I'd say that denigrating someone else's way of being whimsical is a specific subspecies of taking yourself too seriously.
The person you are responding to did not denigrated anything. He responded to claim that if someone does not like those messages, then he "take himself too seriously". The response simple explained that author find those jokes unfunny. As you said, humor varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person. That implies that not liking some kind of humor is completely valid…
Disagree. Thinking that comedy is relative (outside of the situation) is the problem here, but go figure given Americans are trying to get rid of the standard which is stand-up comedy. A person who genuinely tells a knock knock joke is a cunt and needs to be told that to their face
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Yeah GitHub/TypeScript kinda don't count. I have an ignorant question though : do people use c# or f# in a non-windows system, by choice ? Otherwise, wouldn't that be a self fulfilling need ? Edit: typo
Yes, version 5 of the .NET platform (incl C# and F#) runs on Linux and MacOS, and people choose those languages over other languages because of their independent benefits (ie; C# has advantages over Java, and F# has advantages over Haskell/OCaml/etc). I have not used them myself. Bit of an aside, but TypeScript was invented at MSFT, and they still maintain it – why would it not count? (Other than not being a consumer…
> but TypeScript was invented at MSFT
Sure, but JavaScript was already there, so I don't look at it as a MSFT idea event though I agree it's technically a msft product.