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A couple of things I personally find disappointing in Discord: 1) No concept of isolated identities for each server (or group of servers). 2) I use Discord ma

A couple of things I personally find disappointing in Discord: 1) No concept of isolated identities for each server (or group of servers). 2) I use Discord maybe once per week, and every time I do, I have to log in again. The phone app quietly disconnects after a week or so. 3) Hard to find messages I have been mentioned in. I think there's an "inbox" that clears itself out after X days. 4) Pollution, mostly visually (can't collapse certain elements).

micromacrofoot 5y ago
if you pay for nitro you can change your identity per server
- charcircuit 5y ago
  Without nitro you can still nickname yourself.
  - remram 5y ago
    People will still see the "server you're both in" and the game your currently playing, etc. Not good for work servers.
    - spockz 5y ago
      Although you can disable automatically setting your status to whichever game you are playing though.
      - remram 5y ago
        You can disable it globally, for all servers, yes
    - ThatMedicIsASpy 5y ago
      Use web only discord and aggressively disable permissions. This results in less tracking and spying on you
    - theshrike79 5y ago
      Wait. "Work servers"? People use Discord for work chat?
      - charcircuit 5y ago
        Yes, most of my work conversations happen on discord servers. Discord provides a better chat service than slack, so I don't see how it would be unusual for people to use Discord over slack.
      - russjr08 5y ago
        Yeah, the company I work for actually has a public Discord server for providing support (and hosting our "community" - with some exclusions due to privacy concerns). Because of that all of our internal staff discussions takes place in Discord, in channels that can only be seen by the "Staff" role (though modded Discord clients can show these channels' names - because channel listing, both voice and text based, seems to have been relegated to client-side so the server just sends ALL channel names, but not the actual contents unless you have the role since that is checked server-side). While we do have a system that management based staff are invited to (I won't name it because NDA, but it's incredibly easy to guess), but it is only used in case there's a *massive* Discord outage and the staff end up in an extended communications "blackout" because of the outage - however it has _never_ actually been used, at least in the time I've been part of it.
    - ipaddr 5y ago
      Wouldn't you use your work account? A separate account just for work?
      - remram 5y ago
        Because I fear a ban, honestly.
  - anonymoushn 5y ago
    Sure, if the server admin lets you
slightwinder 5y ago
> 2) I use Discord maybe once per week, and every time I do, I have to log in again. The phone app quietly disconnects after a week or so. Do you perhaps have multiple sessions of discord open at the same time? I only get the login when I accidentally open discord multiple times, otherwise I never really get asked for a login.

micromacrofoot 5y ago

if you pay for nitro you can change your identity per server

charcircuit 5y ago
Without nitro you can still nickname yourself.
- remram 5y ago
  People will still see the "server you're both in" and the game your currently playing, etc. Not good for work servers.
  - spockz 5y ago
    Although you can disable automatically setting your status to whichever game you are playing though.
    - remram 5y ago
      You can disable it globally, for all servers, yes
  - ThatMedicIsASpy 5y ago
    Use web only discord and aggressively disable permissions. This results in less tracking and spying on you
  - theshrike79 5y ago
    Wait. "Work servers"? People use Discord for work chat?
    - charcircuit 5y ago
      Yes, most of my work conversations happen on discord servers. Discord provides a better chat service than slack, so I don't see how it would be unusual for people to use Discord over slack.
    - russjr08 5y ago
      Yeah, the company I work for actually has a public Discord server for providing support (and hosting our "community" - with some exclusions due to privacy concerns). Because of that all of our internal staff discussions takes place in Discord, in channels that can only be seen by the "Staff" role (though modded Discord clients can show these channels' names - because channel listing, both voice and text based, seems to have been relegated to client-side so the server just sends ALL channel names, but not the actual contents unless you have the role since that is checked server-side). While we do have a system that management based staff are invited to (I won't name it because NDA, but it's incredibly easy to guess), but it is only used in case there's a *massive* Discord outage and the staff end up in an extended communications "blackout" because of the outage - however it has _never_ actually been used, at least in the time I've been part of it.
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    Wouldn't you use your work account? A separate account just for work?
    - remram 5y ago
      Because I fear a ban, honestly.
- anonymoushn 5y ago
  Sure, if the server admin lets you

slightwinder 5y ago

> 2) I use Discord maybe once per week, and every time I do, I have to log in again. The phone app quietly disconnects after a week or so. Do you perhaps have multiple sessions of discord open at the same time? I only get the login when I accidentally open discord multiple times, otherwise I never really get asked for a login.