I’m gonna preface this with I haven’t used discord in a year or so.
It’s kinda fun watching a new generation go through their first redesign outrage.
Youtube should still have the description over there👉. Putting it down there 👇 will always suck
I use theatre mode so I don’t care about that, but I remember back when you could customize YT Channel background art and set colors and transparency values, cool times.
Use the Improve Youtube extension. I looked it up when I wanted to see something at the end of a video which was obscured by the suggestion boxes, found out it can remove all kinds of bullshit clutter. Can’t imagine watching youtube without it.
You’ll have to pry theater mode out of my cold, dead hands.
what’s wrong with it
if you mean the mobile one, it’s a pretty great upgradeOne of my favorite things about discord was the fact that your experience was similar on both mobile and desktop. I honestly thought it was fantastic from a UX perspective since your knowledge of the app transferred easily between platforms. The new update destroys that and tosses out a large amount of shared knowledge.
Another, more important, complaint is the changes to the colors/themes makes the accessibility significantly worse no matter what theme you use for anyone with eye issues. They changed the light mode font to gray??? They reduced the contrast on the other modes significantly making it genuinely difficult to read text on a MESSAGING APP.
To me this whole thing, and the earlier username changes, feel like changing for the sake of changing rather than actually improving anything. This is just for the shareholders and not because literally anyone asked for it.
Also why is dms it’s own tab I really liked that they were listed next to the servers!
Mobile apps aren’t supposed to work like desktop ones tho.
text is already impossible to read for me due to the font. idk every time i try to switch to the new react native version i go back because text takes me like 4-6 attempts to read.
It annoys me to no extent when there’s something I could do in 5 seconds on the desktop version of an app but I can’t find it on the mobile version because they hid things. Microsoft is soooo annoying with this (and many other things because fuck them)! Every version of each of their apps on every platform is an entirely different program with the same name that barely even does the same functions.
As for the text, this is a problem they could’ve solved! And instead they made it worse while also making the UX worse! Every update from discord recently has made the app more and more buggy and slow. I genuinely don’t understand how they manage it.
Seems very ok, did not give me any strong opinions after a minute.
Update:
Did they get rid of the server user list?You have to click on the channel name now
Nooo, the muscle memory.
Yeah, that’s one of my big complaints about the new UI. Otherwise, I don’t have many huge issues with it so far. The beta they tried earlier this year was terrible, but at least they ditched the horrible server page that one had and kept the server/channels sidebar in this new update. That was the main thing that would’ve made it a dealbreaker for me.
Good advice, I’d follow it
This app is awful now. There was literally nothing wrong about the old UI. They went and messed it all up.
Didn’t even know it changed until I saw this thread. Opened it up, saw that chats and servers are sensibly separated and on the bottom now where they’re easy to reach with a thumb. Also way easier to reply to messages now that the swipe doesn’t show who’s online (to see who’s online, tap the channel name at the top of the screen).
I like it.
Seriously, chats and servers previously being as far away from the thumb as possible was a terrible design. The new one is much cleaner and simpler imo
I really don’t like this update. Dark mode is now a different, darker color which I’m not too fond of. My muscle memory is completely useless. Viewing server members is now all the way up at the top instead of being conveniently behind a swipe. Swiping between tabs is weird (it’s not really swiping between tabs, it’s more like the back button Android already has, so it’s redundant). The activities menu at the top is a waste of space. The search function is harder to use now, you have to click a little button at the top to filter your search results. Chat pins also don’t show image, links, or file previews now. Plus, Discord Mobile and desktop shared a similar user experience, so anyone could just pick up from the desktop version and be able to figure it out very quickly, now you can’t do that anymore. So much functionality and convenience just completely gone now. This might be the worst update I’ve ever seen for a messaging app, and it’s not even close.
A big big problem is accessibility. The new themes are all worse for the eyes than the previous ones and there’s been complaints of vision issues. My fiancé had to install a third party discord client because the actual discord one makes their head spin on every theme.
Also on a more personal note, I really hate that the dms are separated from the servers. My favorite aspect of discord is that knowledge transfers between platforms. It feels like I’m using discord and not discord mobile and then also discord desktop. Now it’s all fucky and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to even see who was in the server (it’s in the top left, the area furthest from the average person’s reach).
It’s also apparently really buggy and noticeably slower. Earlier I sent a pic into a server and it just silently sent to my most recent DM instead. After a search I found I’m not the only one that had.this happen either.
Same it’s different, but it’s not a bad different. And it’s not on the level of reddit where they basically strong armed third-party with cost to quit them from making apps.
My biggest problem is that searches don’t fucking work anymore. It now defaults to searching the channel you’re in, but what if I’m look for a particular message and I don’t know what channel it’s in? Then there’s also searching PMs is so much more complicated now and doesn’t even show you who sent the message in the results.
It had all kinds of rendering bugs on the iPad
Make sure you use an open source tool to download any important conversation or channel history.
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
You’ll have to use the browser version of Discord to grab your unique Token since they’ve disabled the inspector console on the application and also removed the ability to turn it back on in the ini file. Don’t ever share it with anybody, either.
How come we need to dl the history? Are they deleting old messages with this update?
If you delete your account then you won’t have access to your chat history. Because the account will be gone. The account tied to all of the messages. And with which you accessed servers. Because you can’t log in to it. Because it’s gone. Because you deleted it.
u may use Aliucord
I also use aliucord and it helps but it’s against TOS so who knows our accounts could get banned any day
Very unlikely to get detected.
Delete your account using this one weird trick!
I have security concerns with an app that’s been modified by a 3rd party, not to mention it’s an ancient version as well.
All patches should be open source / freely to inspect afaik, I think the official installation process even involves patching an official Discord .apk file locally
You can downgrade to version 199.15 to get rid of the new ui without using a third party modified client
Honestly I like the new UI. Takes a bit of getting used to after knowing the old one for so long but it makes more sense in the end.
The channel switcher, one of my most frequently used features, is now hidden away on top of the channel list instead of a prominent place in the middle of the bottom bar of the swipe-right menu. Going from a DM conversation to a specific channel, instead of “swipe right, tap channel switcher” (so I can type 3 letters of the channel name and switch to it) became “swipe left, tap ‘servers’ twice, tap the search box”. I like most of the other changes, but this really irks me and makes my mobile discording much less efficient :(
If it works just the same, why would they just outright delete the UI most of us like? There’s no good reason not to have options.
not saying that i don’t hate the UI changes with my entire being, but there is absolutely a good reason to not keep the old one. that would mean that discord would have to support two entirely different codebases that would both have to be modified independently whenever they wanted to e.g. add a new feature
What about taking a Winamp approach. One discord, but downloadable skins.
Ah fair enough.
