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So I agree with this but not for any of the reasons the author states. I find the UI/UX of Discord to be beyond awful, like really, really bad. Am I alone in t

by cletus 5y ago

So I agree with this but not for any of the reasons the author states. I find the UI/UX of Discord to be beyond awful, like really, really bad. Am I alone in this? I can never intuitively find a setting, for example. There are multiple settings buttons. Adding channels to your own Discord so you can collect notifications you're interested in sounds cool except it often doesn't work. I suspect the source Discord has disabled this. Why is that even possible? the other big reason is discoverability. Finding things in a Discord is terrible. I've never seen Discord posts pop up in Google search so I suspect that's not possible. The search in Discord is of course bad (pretty much every non-Google search is bad, to be fair). People don't care about it being a walled garden. They only care if it accomplishes the job they want it to.

kevingadd 5y ago
The horrible UX is part of why I use Ripcord. In practice though, I would rather not use Discord at all - but I have to since that's where my friends and coworkers are, so the best I can do is a third-party client.
- moffkalast 5y ago
  Checked out Ripcord, does it really look like this https://cancel.fm/ripcord/static/ripcord_screenshot_win_6.png https://cancel.fm/ripcord/static/ripcord_screenshot_win_6.pn... ? Usability may be better but damn their design is from like the 90s. Have they ever heard of padding? And colours?
  - jcelerier 5y ago
    > Have they ever heard of padding? And colours? my first reflex whenever I see a website with tons of paddings and colours is ctrl-w. gimme those win9x UIs please !!!
diarrhea 5y ago
The worst searches I have encountered are Thunderbird and Discord. While Google is the gold standard, there's a whole range between the former two and the latter. Just fuzzy search goes a long way, but it seems Thunderbird and Discord only match whole words, exactly. The worst kind of search, but could be easily improved.
- moffkalast 5y ago
  Check out Thingiverse, for the worst search engine in human history.

by cletus 5y ago

kevingadd 5y ago

The horrible UX is part of why I use Ripcord. In practice though, I would rather not use Discord at all - but I have to since that's where my friends and coworkers are, so the best I can do is a third-party client.

moffkalast 5y ago
Checked out Ripcord, does it really look like this https://cancel.fm/ripcord/static/ripcord_screenshot_win_6.png https://cancel.fm/ripcord/static/ripcord_screenshot_win_6.pn... ? Usability may be better but damn their design is from like the 90s. Have they ever heard of padding? And colours?
- jcelerier 5y ago
  > Have they ever heard of padding? And colours? my first reflex whenever I see a website with tons of paddings and colours is ctrl-w. gimme those win9x UIs please !!!

diarrhea 5y ago

The worst searches I have encountered are Thunderbird and Discord. While Google is the gold standard, there's a whole range between the former two and the latter. Just fuzzy search goes a long way, but it seems Thunderbird and Discord only match whole words, exactly. The worst kind of search, but could be easily improved.

moffkalast 5y ago
Check out Thingiverse, for the worst search engine in human history.