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Discord forces you to be online or nothing. You can hide the "server" within some folder but your presence is still online. If you truely wish to depart you ne

Discord forces you to be online or nothing. You can hide the "server" within some folder but your presence is still online. If you truely wish to depart you need to leave the server and to return isn't an easy task; as to be able to get back in to the room you need the invite link which has it's own set of caveats. At the same time people tend to think your gone for good. Unlike IRC where if you desired to step away, you could close the channel and reappear at your own leisure and still continue where you left off. If you returned regularly you end up being known as a regular. IMO the current pitfall of IRC is that it's plagued with idling. And the days where I could post my own non-https link to a funny image are gone; it feels that most are now self-conscious of cliking linked-content from none-mainstream sources. How did we end this way?

pessimizer 5y ago
Why would you ever want to turn anything off? What if you need it? Then what if it couldn't hear that you need it? You need it to be able to hear when you need it. Don't turn things off.
- shrimp_emoji 5y ago
  I don't think I experienced this when I was younger, but, now, it feels like being "on" (e.g., on Discord, even if it's closed and sitting in the tray and I'm getting no messages) incurs some subconscious stress somehow. I'm not getting any messages, but I could get some at any moment. And then I'd have to choose whether to respond immediately or not. And, while I'm not responding, some part of me is wondering what the message's level of urgency is. It sucks. Exiting Discord entirely for some portion of the day when I don't feel up to being "on" literally feels like going on vacation without your phone or something. My brain can finally relax. https://youtu.be/E2-AnDdgIF4?t=17 https://youtu.be/E2-AnDdgIF4?t=17
  - zer0-c00l 5y ago
    you can mute specific servers and channels. I use this judiciously
    - night862 5y ago
      Consider the recent studies that show that people's attention is reduced by their phone, even if its under their bed, even if its turned off. Try it, purposefully leave your phone at home the next time you go to the grocery store and see if you feel anything weird.
      - ipaddr 5y ago
        I would never bring my phone to the grocery store. It feels good leaving in a place to get recharged where it can't be lost.
  - MatthiasPortzel 5y ago
    This is like idling on IRC.
  - tekknik 5y ago
    You can disable notifications entirely
SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago
Might I recommend treating it like irc in that you can idle in the server, walk away and then come back as needed and skipping down to the bottom? It’s not uncommon for people to skip in and say “morning all” in discords I’m in, even though there’s other active conversation going. The backscroll then is just used for context before you go “alright back to work for me” and then you just stop responding. There’s no longer an explicit join/quit process, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one anyways just by nature of humanity.
bozhark 5y ago
You can set your online status to invisible and it never shows your icon while online

pessimizer 5y ago

Why would you ever want to turn anything off? What if you need it? Then what if it couldn't hear that you need it? You need it to be able to hear when you need it. Don't turn things off.

shrimp_emoji 5y ago
I don't think I experienced this when I was younger, but, now, it feels like being "on" (e.g., on Discord, even if it's closed and sitting in the tray and I'm getting no messages) incurs some subconscious stress somehow. I'm not getting any messages, but I could get some at any moment. And then I'd have to choose whether to respond immediately or not. And, while I'm not responding, some part of me is wondering what the message's level of urgency is. It sucks. Exiting Discord entirely for some portion of the day when I don't feel up to being "on" literally feels like going on vacation without your phone or something. My brain can finally relax. https://youtu.be/E2-AnDdgIF4?t=17 https://youtu.be/E2-AnDdgIF4?t=17
- zer0-c00l 5y ago
  you can mute specific servers and channels. I use this judiciously
  - night862 5y ago
    Consider the recent studies that show that people's attention is reduced by their phone, even if its under their bed, even if its turned off. Try it, purposefully leave your phone at home the next time you go to the grocery store and see if you feel anything weird.
    - ipaddr 5y ago
      I would never bring my phone to the grocery store. It feels good leaving in a place to get recharged where it can't be lost.
- MatthiasPortzel 5y ago
  This is like idling on IRC.
- tekknik 5y ago
  You can disable notifications entirely

SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago

Might I recommend treating it like irc in that you can idle in the server, walk away and then come back as needed and skipping down to the bottom? It’s not uncommon for people to skip in and say “morning all” in discords I’m in, even though there’s other active conversation going. The backscroll then is just used for context before you go “alright back to work for me” and then you just stop responding. There’s no longer an explicit join/quit process, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one anyways just by nature of humanity.

bozhark 5y ago

You can set your online status to invisible and it never shows your icon while online