Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro...
by rjbwork on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:27AM
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>There's a bunch of padding and avatars around each message. I know some people consider those things features, but I personally hate them.
They have compact mode that eliminates that stuff. I don't see avatars. I just see colored user names.
There are image embeds but I tend to see that as a positive, especially with some bot capabilities. For instance here is what the chat looks like in the server for one of the roguelikes I play, TOME4. https://i.imgur.com/WHFD7OA.png
You can see no avatars and it's just a bot-generated image that is relevant to the chat.
The discord interface suffers from modern design syndrome, the information density isn't there. I open it and see inline images/gifs, link previews, reactions etc. There's a bunch of padding and avatars around each message. I know some people consider those things features, but I personally hate them.
Mumble has much higher quality and lower latency than discord, but that's probably a matter of configuration and server location.
No limitations on what you can do with bots either. We do all sorts of stupid shit with irc -> mumble text-to-speech along with our music bot and clip soundboard. I'm guessing it's probably possible to recreate it all on discord, but I can't imagine rewriting it all.
I suspect the Discord API's are significantly more complicated than irc/mumble.