École des Bro-ArtsMar 19
I do not understand what people like about Discord. This UI is *terrible*.
Show threadOwenMar 19

@aphyr What people like: they already have it (mostly from when it was less bad), voice chat works and is relatively pleasant to use, infinite scrollback

when it was aiming to replace roger wilco and teamspeak I think it was a clever and well-designed product, but then they won that fight and still had to Grow.

Show threadOwen
@aphyr case in point on getting worse: voice chat now has its own attached streaming and chat service, _within discord_, that is disruptive if you're trying to just join a voice call. Whatever you were doing, you now need to click back to, whereas the UI used to stay where it was when you joined a call.
Mar 19 at 2:10pmWeb
Show threadOwenMar 19
@aphyr I don't think Discord has any real chance of becoming a Streaming Platform for Gaming the way twitch did, that market is pretty saturated and being accessible outside of the platform-app is a huge selling point for literally anyone but Discord, but they're trying anyways and making their product worse to use in the process