Mastodawn

So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement

Things you don’t need:
- federation/distributed systems
- multiparty end-to-end encryption
- an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to—

Things you DO need:
- a user interface that is Normal
- the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
- higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
- any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons

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lj·rk Feb 12

@0xabad1dea

> - any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

I think this puzzles me most. I just... don't. I tried, multiple times. I don't get it.

> - a user interface that is Normal
> - higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world

... which is also why I wouldn't agree here, because I find Discords UI horrible :'-D

But so is Element's etc. whelp

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Katar Jin -> Home (NFC27?)*CAW*Feb 12

What's so hard to get? A chat and voice program where you can share your screen with only a few clicks. Before you needed like 4 different applications to do that and most of them were..not that good or you had to pay for.

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FreediverX

@katarjin.bsky.social
The basic concept is fine. The user interface is a mess.