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Huh? Discord has really poor UX compared to other IM services I use, like Telegram. Notification settings are so complex that it takes trial, error, and missed
by grishka 4y ago
Huh? Discord has really poor UX compared to other IM services I use, like Telegram. Notification settings are so complex that it takes trial, error, and missed important messages to end up with a sensible configuration (no broadcast mentions in any shape or form, no badges unless I'm mentioned by my own username or there's a reply to my message). Every little piece of its UI is custom-built and routinely defies my expectations about how UI controls should behave. Just a few examples of my pain points with Discord:
- They somehow managed to mess up the message text field so much that my system-wide text replacements don't work. They work literally everywhere else.
- When I want to add a reaction to a message, there's an emoji picker. It shows custom emoji FIRST, and it shows custom emoji from ALL "servers" I'm a member of. It takes actual time for something that should be a nearly-instant interaction.
- There are no last seen statuses when a user is offline.
- The files. Need I say more? Not only does that 8 MB limit feel like an insult in this day and age, so does Discord's insistence on always storing the original files as-is. OK for images, but I sometimes have to send screencasts, and you never know what size it even is. I end up having to upload them somewhere else and then send a link. Your files are too powerful, my ass.
And, yes, it's Electron, and at this point I'm convinced that an Electron app just can't possibly be good, no matter how hard you try and how good your engineers are.
- entropie 4y agoDiscords notifications are actually are nightmare. I still have a single (1) on my direct messages link and I cannot figure out (since like 2 month) where it comes from. And that all after I had a little red dot in the taskbar discord icon for like a year which I somehow managed to get rid of. Overall its usability is okay for me, but there are really some big quirks.
- grishka 4y ago> I still have a single (1) on my direct messages link and I cannot figure out Maybe it's a friend request? > And that all after I had a little red dot in the taskbar discord icon for like a year which I somehow managed to get rid of. This is the most annoying thing. I think it means you have "some" unread messages. A single message in any of the 100s of channels in a dozen "servers" you're in will trigger that with default notification settings.
- entropie 4y ago> Maybe it's a friend request? Just tried that - nope. It actually was the "Nitro - 1 Month FREE" tab below "Friends". Never tried that before...