Re:How Discord Went Mainstream
by avinium on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:16PM
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Completely disagree.
This is just my personal opinion, but I (and my circle) have found Discord to have the worst UI of any mainstream application.
First, there's only a dark theme, which I find much more difficult to read than Slack's default light theme.
Every window (native client) is crammed full of widgets, making it very difficult for fresh users to figure out which button to click to invite people.
It's also constantly firing off unread notifications, adding more and more density to the UI. It makes it very difficult to instantly know where to look.
As another example, I just fired up the desktop client and created a random server - and now I literally have no idea how to delete or disconnect from it.
I'm not a fan of Slack for other reasons, but its UI is far, far superior to Discord.
This is just my personal opinion, but I (and my circle) have found Discord to have the worst UI of any mainstream application.
First, there's only a dark theme, which I find much more difficult to read than Slack's default light theme.
Every window (native client) is crammed full of widgets, making it very difficult for fresh users to figure out which button to click to invite people.
It's also constantly firing off unread notifications, adding more and more density to the UI. It makes it very difficult to instantly know where to look.
As another example, I just fired up the desktop client and created a random server - and now I literally have no idea how to delete or disconnect from it.
I'm not a fan of Slack for other reasons, but its UI is far, far superior to Discord.