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I accidentally left it in a voice channel one time and my friends heard a two hour long conversation between me and my partner. Barely used it since then. I hav

I accidentally left it in a voice channel one time and my friends heard a two hour long conversation between me and my partner. Barely used it since then. I have no idea what's happening in that app and I'm the generation that grew up with the internet.

wzwy 4y ago
Is that really Discord’s fault though? I’m not familiar with other chat apps, so maybe Discord is not doing something to prevent such accidents from happening.
- antifa 4y ago
  I feel like every layer of the stack (poor UX design, discord, chrome, electron, windows/android, drivers, my actual microphone) is not to be trusted now more than ever. I'm not even talking about conspiracies or the NSA, I'm only talking about glitchy buggy behaviors that cause things like "I didn't know I was unmuted". Things are so unreliable and untrustworthy these days I can only falt OP for not being overly paranoid and double checking constantly.
- pwinnski 4y ago
  Yes, it is Discord's fault. Clicking on a channel name normally shows you the content of that channel. But clicking on some channel names automatically start an audio connection, and if you're on several Discord servers with many dozens of channels each, it's easy to miss which are which. Once the audio connection is started, assuming you realize what happened, the method for dropping the connection is a single unintuitive (for me, and apparently others) icon. If you instead switch away from the channel, thinking that just as the text for a channel disappears when you switch away from it, perhaps so does the audio, then you'll remain connected. If you're focused on what you're doing, it's relatively easy to see what's happening and undo it. The icon is a monochromatic old-school phone handset with a tiny X in the corner, and recent versions of the Discord desktop client now include a reasonably large message on the lower-left telling you that you're part of an audio call. But if you're treating Discord like another chat app, then it is easy to accidentally end up broadcasting audio without realizing it, and I think Discord's design is to blame.
  - wzwy 4y ago
    Thank you for the clarification. My comment about Discord’s inculpability was quite unfair anyway because even though I use Discord, I’ve never used the voice channel. It’s foolish of me to make that comment. On another note, I wonder how many times those kinds of accidents had happened? And if it’s relatively high, is Discord aware of them?
    - pwinnski 4y ago
      I think they're aware enough that they've definitely made the notice that one is voice-connected more prominent since I started using the client. No idea how often it happens, but it seems an issue for new users specifically. Once you spend some time focusing on the UI, it eventually makes sense.

wzwy 4y ago

Is that really Discord’s fault though? I’m not familiar with other chat apps, so maybe Discord is not doing something to prevent such accidents from happening.

antifa 4y ago
I feel like every layer of the stack (poor UX design, discord, chrome, electron, windows/android, drivers, my actual microphone) is not to be trusted now more than ever. I'm not even talking about conspiracies or the NSA, I'm only talking about glitchy buggy behaviors that cause things like "I didn't know I was unmuted". Things are so unreliable and untrustworthy these days I can only falt OP for not being overly paranoid and double checking constantly.
pwinnski 4y ago
Yes, it is Discord's fault. Clicking on a channel name normally shows you the content of that channel. But clicking on some channel names automatically start an audio connection, and if you're on several Discord servers with many dozens of channels each, it's easy to miss which are which. Once the audio connection is started, assuming you realize what happened, the method for dropping the connection is a single unintuitive (for me, and apparently others) icon. If you instead switch away from the channel, thinking that just as the text for a channel disappears when you switch away from it, perhaps so does the audio, then you'll remain connected. If you're focused on what you're doing, it's relatively easy to see what's happening and undo it. The icon is a monochromatic old-school phone handset with a tiny X in the corner, and recent versions of the Discord desktop client now include a reasonably large message on the lower-left telling you that you're part of an audio call. But if you're treating Discord like another chat app, then it is easy to accidentally end up broadcasting audio without realizing it, and I think Discord's design is to blame.
- wzwy 4y ago
  Thank you for the clarification. My comment about Discord’s inculpability was quite unfair anyway because even though I use Discord, I’ve never used the voice channel. It’s foolish of me to make that comment. On another note, I wonder how many times those kinds of accidents had happened? And if it’s relatively high, is Discord aware of them?
  - pwinnski 4y ago
    I think they're aware enough that they've definitely made the notice that one is voice-connected more prominent since I started using the client. No idea how often it happens, but it seems an issue for new users specifically. Once you spend some time focusing on the UI, it eventually makes sense.