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Re:How Discord Won by swiley on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:51PM (#24830199)
geese I can't stand the UI. The worst part is dealing with muting servers/channels because most admins don't seem to set up reasonable settings (ex: have the main channel always send notifications to everyone on every message.)

I never had these problems with IRC in pidgen.

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Re:How Discord Won by madeofpalk on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:46PM (#24831395)
Discord's channel system and notifications by default are extremley annoying.

No idea why they made Discord audibly ping whenever someone say anything in any channel on new servers you join.

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Re:How Discord Won by zelphirkalt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:35AM (#24834758)
Because you can mute any part of it?
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Re:How Discord Won by madeofpalk on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:58AM (#24835592)
compare this to slack - where not every channel on the org will ding by default when you join.

I think sensible defaults are valuable, and I don't think Discord's approach here is sensible.

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Re:How Discord Won by pteraspidomorph on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:07PM (#24830388)
I don't think it's possible for community admins to have any control over notifications; Those are entirely under your control. That said, I agree with you; those settings can get messy and difficult to manage.
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Re:How Discord Won by smileybarry on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:05PM (#24831019)
They're referring to the default notification settings that admins can set. Annoyingly, the Discord default (when you create a new server) is "All Messages" and not "Only @mentions". Sometimes I find another server still on "all messages" for some reason.
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Re:How Discord Won by zelphirkalt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:37AM (#24834774)
It is literally right click mute on channels or servers plus you get the choice for how long you want to mute. If that is too difficult to manage ...
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Re:How Discord Won by swiley on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:25AM (#24836128)
Sure it's possible to change, but it's not good. It's really a regression from previous group chat applications. The post I was replying to was arguing that discord is popular because it had a good UI.
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Re:How Discord Won by zelphirkalt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:02PM (#24839766)
To me it is good UI at least for that, because "Where do you set the volume for a single user?" Well just right click exactly on that user! Where else? It cannot be in global options and it would be too much info for always displaying it under each user name. It belong in that context menu. Solid UI for me.
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