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That's the really frustrating part about this - I understand they want to keep their walled ecosystem/garden/whatever for whatever reasons they want. I just wi

That's the really frustrating part about this - I understand they want to keep their walled ecosystem/garden/whatever for whatever reasons they want. I just wish I could customize discord's GUI so: -The GUI have so less empty space -Have a "compact" version where it just shows the users in the channel and who's speaking, and compact view of a chat channel. The default window is just an absolute PAIN, it doesn't go smaller than a certain size and it just has so much irrelevant information not pertinent to the voice/video call I'm in or who I'm chatting with. Maybe I'm the boomer longing for individual/group chats a la MSN messenger 20 years ago. :O

Operyl 4y ago
> Maybe I'm the boomer longing for individual/group chats a la MSN messenger 20 years ago. :O I know, right? The thing is, the vast majority of the generation using this don't have these qualms, it works for them. This must be how it felt like when we stopped used corded phones, haha. Or hand written stuff to type writers..
est31 4y ago
FTR there is a compact setting for discord. I use it together with 80% zoom so that it has a "normal" font size. Turns it into an actually usable product :).
Firmwarrior 4y ago
I think the really frustrating part is that tons of knowledge and discourse is getting blackholed into Discord's walled dumpster where it's not searchable and likely to disappear forever within a few years
userbinator 4y ago
Maybe I'm the boomer longing for individual/group chats a la MSN messenger 20 years ago. Since this is relevant to the other discussion going on here: To my knowledge, Microsoft has never banned accounts for using third-party MSN clients; and there were definitely plenty of them back then. I even wrote my own and used it right up until they shut down the servers. MS had updated the protocol many times, but MS being the "good old MS", highly valued backwards compatibility and up to the day they shut down the servers, they still negotiated and worked with one of the very first protocol versions.

Operyl 4y ago

> Maybe I'm the boomer longing for individual/group chats a la MSN messenger 20 years ago. :O I know, right? The thing is, the vast majority of the generation using this don't have these qualms, it works for them. This must be how it felt like when we stopped used corded phones, haha. Or hand written stuff to type writers..

est31 4y ago

FTR there is a compact setting for discord. I use it together with 80% zoom so that it has a "normal" font size. Turns it into an actually usable product :).

Firmwarrior 4y ago

I think the really frustrating part is that tons of knowledge and discourse is getting blackholed into Discord's walled dumpster where it's not searchable and likely to disappear forever within a few years

userbinator 4y ago

Maybe I'm the boomer longing for individual/group chats a la MSN messenger 20 years ago. Since this is relevant to the other discussion going on here: To my knowledge, Microsoft has never banned accounts for using third-party MSN clients; and there were definitely plenty of them back then. I even wrote my own and used it right up until they shut down the servers. MS had updated the protocol many times, but MS being the "good old MS", highly valued backwards compatibility and up to the day they shut down the servers, they still negotiated and worked with one of the very first protocol versions.