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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by wearywanderer on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:38PM (#27294394)
> Discord works perfectly fine as a simple webpage

It has a webapp, but it does not work "perfectly fine" in my experience. The UX is bewilderingly complex; it took me several minutes to figure out how to make it stop ringing more bells and whistles than a las vegas casino. I had a hard time even figuring out what symbols were meant to be buttons that get clicked; even finding the settings screen was a pain in the ass. It's truly awful.

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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by gerikson on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:58PM (#27294624)
Out of curiosity, what IRC client do you use?
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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by wearywanderer on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:00PM (#27294651)
Formerly xchat, now hexchat. I also leave weechat idling in a tmux session.

My take on discord is that it's been designed for the zoomer/gamer demographic; the sort of people who also get sucked in by gacha games. Lots of sounds and colors that leave the user dazed and intoxicated.

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