I still cannot seem to hold a mental map in my head of where to get to DMs. (It’s under Home.)

For what it's worth you can also Ctrl/Cmd-T and search for someone to begin DMing them.

(I had no idea. Thank you. That’s a nice shortcut.)

I’ve found slack super confusing and counter-intuitive in how Cumbersome it is to log in to my workspaces on, for example, my phone. This is because I don’t have a slack account but multiple accounts - one for each workspace and all of them connected to the same email (so for me as a user they’re the same account. come on - Why do I have to sign up every time?)

The UI around this has improved tremendously over the last 6 months, but it is still not great.

I want different handles for them, I want DMs to be grouped by discord - not into a single giant bucket, I want notification emails to go to different emails.

The biggest blocker to me enjoying discord is that it assumes I'm the same person across all the groups.

The only thing though I found out not possible to customize per server is the avatar picture, for some reason. But I already use the same for personal and professional communications so it didn't bother me too much.

Nope. The different handle on a server is there for other people's benefit, not for yours. Anyone who sends you a direct message will see your actual Discord handle.

I can't fathom why it's implemented this way, but it is.

I would hazard a guess that it's because the vast majority of people want a single login for a single app.

I know I certainly prefer the discord one account many servers approach over the slack one server one logon.

Obviously the 1:1 relationship makes sense for slack as it's targeted at businesses, a lot of whom use a centralised user directory of some kind (SSO/LDAP etc...) but having to create a new user/pass to join every discord server would get old very fast.

There isn't one.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

That gave me a chuckle

Like how Reddit spares you from registering for 100 forums.

Still, the voice quality is way way ahead of anything else like Zoom or WhatsApp. I think that's probably more important than anything else.

Now that Discord has a far more diverse population beyond your more hardcore gamers, I think softening the jargon would be positive. They've already started to move the tone of some of the more playful messages[2] to improve UX for a broader audience, so it may well move away from the current terminology before too long.

[1]: https://blog.discord.com/discord-is-for-your-communities-3d1...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/inuc6u/they_rem...

Though the medieval history is its own baggage as well that would likely keep Discord from wanting to use the term publicly in sales marketing: medieval guilds were predecessors to modern unions and there's at least a few potential enterprise companies that would balk at using a union term for chat groups.

Isn't it just a single left click on the voice channel name?

I think the discomfort in this case comes from the semantics of clicking an item in a list. Every desktop interface for the last 25 years has taught us that clicking a list-item means "select". This works for text-channels, and I can kind of see how you might stretch that definition to joining a voice channel - though that's more of a "significant action", which traditionally warrants an actual button - but it makes absolutely no sense for leaving a voice channel.

You took what I couldn't articulate and perfectly described it.. thank you!

After not being able to "get" the layout of Discord after multple uses, it made me wonder if I was the wrong age group of the platform for not "getting it."