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Discord is by far my favorite communication platform across anything I used in my entire life, nothing else comes even close in terms of feature set. It also helps that almost everyone I like is there. I'm forced to have whatsapp and telegram to communicate with the general population and I wouldn't use them if I didn't have to.

by DeluluDon7 hours ago|

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If someone from discord DM'd me wanting to move to telegram or whatsapp, they're automatically assumed to be a scammer.

by RunSet4 hours ago|

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> Discord is by far my favorite communication platform across anything I used in my entire life, nothing else comes even close in terms of feature set.

It's just yahoo groups that requires your phone number.

by pdntspa6 hours ago|

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Yes I just love its patronizingly cute little animations everywhere reminding me not to think too hard

I cannot believe this stupid app is so popular when you can't even monitor multiple servers at once! When every brother and their mother has a discord server but I can only look at one channel on one server at a time??

by Aozora76 hours ago|

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I haven't seen functionality to view multiple channels at the same time in any modern chat application, so I can't exactly blame discord for not having that.

by progval5 hours ago|

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Weechat does it: https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_quickstart.en.h... I don't use this feature, though.

However I like that I can see all the channel with unread messages at once, and can switch between them quickly. On Discord if I'm chatting in three channels spread across two servers then switching takes two clicks.

by Arubis10 hours ago|

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In Discord’s…defense? Description? At least for understanding—it’s gamer chat. And it’s been that from the beginning. That’s the design and the intent, and while it seems Discord-the-company is trying to adapt Discord-the-product for the increase in popularity for other uses, its roots are showing. Navigating it feels similar to navigating the menu system of a AAA game.

by Sharlin9 hours ago|

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Yeah, I know. But they seem hell bent on adding more and more distractions in every update. I mean, it felt more manageable when it was still just a gamer chat.

by Aozora79 hours ago|

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I've been using it since 2016, and none of the new features that I don't use have negatively impacted me.

by nyanmatt7 hours ago|

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Also using it since their first release, and all of the new features have impeded my usage. Server nicknames are fantastic but I couldn't tell you how to access that feature. I have to relearn where that option is every single time.

Nitro, Shop, and Quests. What are these even?

Even their changelog page is wtf (https://discord.com/tags/changelog)

by Aozora76 hours ago|

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Right click on the server icon or header, then per-server profile. Completely reasonable to me, and I don't think it has ever not been there since they introduced it.

Shop is where they sell customization stuff.

Quests let you earn currency you can use to buy customization stuff or nitro instead of real money.

I don't think there's a significantly better way to do whatever they are doing, and I don't see anything particularly objectionable about any of it.

by esseph6 hours ago|

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Nitro is a subscription that gives you more customization for your profile (banners, themes, etc).

Shop is where you can buy additional customizations.

Quests get you exclusive unlocks for various games.

by saghm8 hours ago|

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It's certainly dense with something. If it's information, it's not information I want though. I have no desire to know anything about their various Nitro sales or have a live feed to what my friends are playing or listening to. People I want to talk to are there, so I go there to talk to them. Anything outside of that just makes it noisy, like you said.

by quietsegfault10 hours ago|

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I can’t get into Discord. It’s just so messy and disorganized and too much information flying at my face.

by bombela5 hours ago|

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It's the too much completely useless information flying at my face that I despise. So much empty space, the UI is so weirdly verbose for everything but the actual content. You need discord in full screen to manage reading messages properly. It's also slow switching channels and server.

Maybe I may officially old now, but I recall I could converse on IRC, not full screen, on a 800x600 15" monitor. Yes I know today we have tons of pictures and emojis and so we obviously need a bit more room. But common. Even slack takes slightly less room that discord for the same amount of information.

And yes, I enabled compact mode.

by quietsegfault2 hours ago|

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I am fine with slack (though my slack is also a disorganized mess) and used IRC at work for over a decade. Discord is at a different level with the different communities having super-duplicated functionality.

by esseph6 hours ago|

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I can't understand this, it's just a name and a message. It's slack with a better threading interface. (Which is just IRC with better file transfer and image previews)

We're you on IRC? Much more information dense.

by internet1010109 hours ago|

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Discord is incredibly popular among younger people in general now. It escaped tech people containment years ago.