Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week
by OkayPhysicist on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:25PM
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I am utterly baffled by the complaints about UI changes. Discord looks nigh-identical to when I first installed it in 2017. Literally the only significant changes I remember was the smoothing of the logo, and relatively recent bottom left icon changes. I guess they added the activities button at some point in there, too.
In fact, the stability of their UI is something that I've greatly appreciated. What about the UI is changing?
Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week
by _heimdall on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:55PM
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The overall UI design has been consistent, what has rubbed me the wrong way is all the unnecessary UI features like soundboards, custom animated gifts/stamps, etc.
As far as UI hierarchy goes, its mostly been a challenge of the use cases for open source not fitting well with Discord. Too many channels, permission levels, and an unmanageable sidebar structure. That may just be an issue with scale of a larger OSS project, that's my only experience with it.
I'm not a gamer so I only used Discord for those open source projects, maybe it'd be different otherwise. It always seemed that most of Discord's efforts went into new features rather than keeping things stable. The constant churn and restructuring of the UI is a huge pain in the butt, and with a larger server we spent way too much time moving around channels and managing automations and rules.