L4sBotDiscord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update
qooqieI cancelled my nitro years ago because what exactly is the benefits that I can’t do with being a freeloader? Besides I’m sure they scrape all my data anyways
Not a user of discord, by what are the reasons people use nitro for ? And who would be the audience to purchase this ?
I just like using animated emotes
Sorry but,
How are kids/teens able to sustain expenditures for Animated Emotes? Isn’t this a luxury product purchase ?
A lot of teens in the US have jobs; I’ve worked since I was 14. At $10/month that’s like 1 fast food meal, and if you use it as your major chat platform that’s easily worth it for the convenience it offers you. And teens don’t generally have other major bills to pay.
Understand. Thank you for explaining. Why isn’t Element more widely used ? Isn’t that a free and FOSS based ?
Trying to gauge why discord paid version even is a thing.
cosmic_slateHosting can be annoying.
Discord requires downloading a file, entering your email, clicking an activation link, and clicking a “discord server link”. They have completely nailed an easy gaming chat/voice service compared to something like Teamspeak.
Otherwise I guess now you’d be setting up a Matrix server, dealing with port forwards (if you’re not behind CG-NAT now), possibly paying $15/mo for a barebones VPS. You could probably use someone else’s Matrix server, but then there’s the fun of handling voice chat/screen sharing, so now you’re off to figure out Jitsi…
Makes a lot of sense. The audience is young and they would want an easy interface to install ! Thanks you for explaining!
Well I’m an adult with a job and I find the emotes fun
Larger file size uploads was my main incentive.
lazynoobletNon shitty camera/streaming quality. I spend time with my daughter on discord so I want the best possible experience as we play and laugh together.
The choice is made for me as a 2nd class Linux user lol
BlisterexeTry vesktop, it makes discord actually work properly on Linux (among other things)
Neat, will do!
I fucking hate UI changes
All of them?
All of them
What kind of brain rot do you have where taking a few moments to re-figure out how to do things again is too much for you. Ever consider that maybe UI changes are to make things more accessible as well?
Fuck off 4chan faggot. You should learn how to act decent to stranger then maybe you won’t be a lonely loser for the rest of your life
Max-PImagine paying for Discord in the first place
I don’t really get this take. If you don’t like Discord Nitro, simply don’t buy it. If you enjoy the features Nitro adds and don’t mind paying the monthly fee, then buy it. I don’t really understand what shaming people who pay for Nitro accomplishes.
The UI changes are horrible. They make it so it takes more taps to get to places. Idk who is in charge of that but they need to reevaluate things. Also paying for discord is hilarious. But people unsubscribing is the only way they might roll back.
It’s always been a mess. This is imo at least a bit better. Crazy that a company of this size does UI so horribly.
SumeDon’t get how anyone likes the new UI. I downloaded the regular discord app (I use Aliucord,fortunately still on old UI) real quick and literally could not figure where anything was.
What can’t you find?
It already took too long to go to DMs from the base screen. They really need the ability to have a favorite list that includes both.
Actually black theme already won me over
Discord design team has been utterly useless since they changed to the dark theme being the default in like 2016
they just tried to justify their overstay and over-payment by changing shit for the sake of changing it
if people werent lazy such lazy apathetic blobs i could have left the platform years ago.
I managed to get barely a hundred people to switch from a 3k server and after a couple of weeks most stopped talking altogether, internet communication sucks man.
Wait, really? It’s not even that big a change! That’s a hell of a thing to cut and run for
It’s quite a massive change and significantly impacts usability in a lot of cases and it also makes Discord no different from any other app.
If they had just kept the server list in the direct messages view this would’ve been way less worse.
I’m so confused. When I got this unexpected change I was so excited. This is exactly what’s been wrong with the UX in that app. It’s so much clearer now
It messes with a ton of my common actions and doesn’t make them better. Things being hidden behind weird actions now. Some of it will just require me to get used to it, but some of it seems genuinely more cumbersome to perform.
The fundamental disconnect here seems to be some people think apps being “clearer” makes them better, regardless of how much functionality is hidden or straight up lost.
And that’s not just about Discord, that’s the theme across the board, it seems. Some people want aesthetics, some people want usability, and UX designers nowadays seems hellbent on pissing off the latter.
Data density in UX has been downhill since Microsoft Office added the ribbon in 2007.
But the only thing I see changed is that “dm” was moved to the bottom bar instead of the server list (which made no sense)
CalcProgrammer1Why do you enjoy having them separate? I much prefer the old layout, it makes a lot more sense to keep everything in the same place and require less swiping to get between them. Having two different sections is annoying and having it one way in the mobile UI and another way in the desktop UI is beyond stupid. I really wish they would just give us the option to pick our preferred layout.
DMs are separate things. They aren’t a server. They’re outside of servers.
Better question is, why would you put a button for DMs in a list of servers?
I’m curious about your usage. Are you heavily into DMs? What % of activity is DM vs servers? Do you switch between them a lot? Are you a desktop user too? What % is desktop vs mobile?
For me I’m mainly in a single server (but have 50 others I drop in seldomly), and I rarely DM. I’m primarily desktop (my fulltime job uses discord for collab), but do mobile a lot off hours.
KairuByteWait what change are we talking about? I don’t see any huge changes on iOS.
They roll out slowly, you’ll get it eventually
Discord was never usable for almost all handicaps
Source I work with blind developers
voxelputtin buttons at the top is a terrible ux for mobile apps
You should read the last line of my comment.
it also makes Discord no different from any other app.
Seems to be the consistent theme now. Legitimately, no app seems to want to have its own visual identity anymore, it’s all the same shit, in white or black. It’s depressingly lifeless and Corporate Memphis levels of inauthentic.
I just looked at the change, fully-prepared to feel outraged and claim they’re changing things just to change them.
Nah. It’s a fantastic, logical change imo.
If they had kept the server menu on the messages tab it would’ve been better, they also removed a bunch of normal menu actions and hid them and completely obstructed other things.
It would’ve been a logical change if they cared even a little bit more.
Outside of a minor appearance change, they moved direct messages out of the server list and into their own space (never understood why they did it that way before), and added a way to quickly reply to a message at the expense of having to tap the channel name to see the member list instead of swiping… I’m missing how this is a massive change here and how it significantly impacts usability…
They hid a bunch of things behind menus, multiple button taps and separated two parts of Discord while they shouldn’t be. Even ignoring all those useless changes, if they had just kept the server bar on the messages tab it would’ve been fine.
Octopus1348They’ve just seen this as an excuse to stop paying Nitro.
They could just stop anytime, they don’t have to justify it
discord users are snowflakes
RealFknNitoSure thing grandpa, let’s get you to bed. Joe Biden can’t hurt you there.
You should have seen how mad people were over the time Discord slightly changed the shade of the icon
Discord offers subscriptions and micro transactions in a chat app. This is the future of everything thanks to people going “oh it’s not so bad”.
TJA!I mean, they have to make some money some way…
And who determines how much money they need? Some c-suite asshole who wants a 3rd mansion?
You’re not obligated to pay them if you don’t want to.
Oh sure.
Don’t worry, I don’t.
These people are acting like every company that exists is somehow extracting money from them, even if they aren’t actually paying for it. For someone to ask for money in return for a service is a straight insult to them lol.
They’ll take as much as they can get while providing the bare-minimum in return.
It’s called “maximizing profit”, and a lot of people in this thread don’t seem to understand that.