Yes it is unfriendly but do you remember how it was pre discord? Communities built around vent and teamspeak?
Discord is a step up from that but it needs to remain a community hub, not a full repository of information. “Visit our website” on the main page is necessary most of the time.
Also discord has forum posts. These are awful and you can only have like 200 active posts or some rudimentary and small count which means you cant really use it as a forum (let alone the unintuitive layout of them)
I’ve never used Vent nor Teamspeak, either. I just don’t get why Reddit’s/Lemmy’s excellent threading can’t be followed more closely. I understand that IMs fire rapidly and can bury threads up above, but the current format is just too unwieldy for mass discussion.
Actually, it’s the lack of E2E that I dislike the most. There doesn’t seem to be any easy way to solve real-time child comments, but at least Matrix is E2E. Revolt, while not E2E (and lacking video-streaming), can at least be self-hosted as well. Where Discord excels insanely is in its live screen-sharing; nothing comes close except maybe Google Meet and Zoom.
I don’t use it for gaming, but for backing up a social club that does IRL events, and I’ll say Discord is the worst thing ever until you consider the alternatives.
WhatsApp was ok but the featureset just wasn’t good enough. I sure do hope Discord gets their shit together but they don’t seem motivated to improve it.
Even as someone that likes and uses Discord, I don’t want to join their Discord. It’s so much harder to find answers than just using a search engine, and if it’s something I’m using for work, then I have to create a new account and everything
“Join our Discord”
Ugh. Why. I don’t want to hang out in your chatroom.
Discord has such a ridiculous, unfriendly layout, too; almost any other platform has a better UI…
I think this is double sided
Yes it is unfriendly but do you remember how it was pre discord? Communities built around vent and teamspeak?
Discord is a step up from that but it needs to remain a community hub, not a full repository of information. “Visit our website” on the main page is necessary most of the time.
Also discord has forum posts. These are awful and you can only have like 200 active posts or some rudimentary and small count which means you cant really use it as a forum (let alone the unintuitive layout of them)
I’ve never used Vent nor Teamspeak, either. I just don’t get why Reddit’s/Lemmy’s excellent threading can’t be followed more closely. I understand that IMs fire rapidly and can bury threads up above, but the current format is just too unwieldy for mass discussion.
Actually, it’s the lack of E2E that I dislike the most. There doesn’t seem to be any easy way to solve real-time child comments, but at least Matrix is E2E. Revolt, while not E2E (and lacking video-streaming), can at least be self-hosted as well. Where Discord excels insanely is in its live screen-sharing; nothing comes close except maybe Google Meet and Zoom.
I don’t use it for gaming, but for backing up a social club that does IRL events, and I’ll say Discord is the worst thing ever until you consider the alternatives.
WhatsApp was ok but the featureset just wasn’t good enough. I sure do hope Discord gets their shit together but they don’t seem motivated to improve it.
I’ve recently started using Discord more to play with friends and my god, the UI is so awful.
Even as someone that likes and uses Discord, I don’t want to join their Discord. It’s so much harder to find answers than just using a search engine, and if it’s something I’m using for work, then I have to create a new account and everything