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The only social app I have is Discord, I'm 15 and it's like the MS Teams of my generation. Nobody likes it, it's designed like crap and we hate the developers b

by _chu1 3y ago

The only social app I have is Discord, I'm 15 and it's like the MS Teams of my generation. Nobody likes it, it's designed like crap and we hate the developers but everyone uses it so we just kind of have to. There's really nothing better I can think of, and my friends aren't as much of a nerd as I am (They still think the nerdy stuff is cool though, they love my Pentium III + Voodoo3 retro PC) to use anything like Matrix clients or Revolt.

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
Is there a blog post or somesuch about this P3 of yours? I'm twice your age, P3 was my first CPU so I'd love to hear more about it!
- _chu1 3y ago
  You know, I actually should start a blog. I hope you don't mind if I just talk about the PC here. Wanted a retro build for mid to late 90s games, did almost an entire year of research and after a failed attempt involving Socket 939 I finally found some guy on Facebook Marketplace of all places who was selling a "Retro Pentium 3 PC". I was shocked because I live in central Alabama and cool stuff is never sold here, me and my brother went to meet him and paid for it. I already knew the specs from messaging him but it had a 733MHz Coppermine P3, an odd 320MB of PC100 RAM, a Netgear GA311 (which I already had like 3 of) and a Voodoo3 3000 AGP. I cleaned it out, put it in a brand new ATX Cooler Master case, gave it a SATA hard drive with a SATA to IDE adapter, repasted the CPU, put in a new PSU, installed a Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS, got Windows 98 SE set up with Photoshop 7, Office XP and a crap load of games and it's been one of my favorite pieces of technology I've ever owned. Beat Deus Ex for my first time on there and my life was changed, my vision is now augmented. YouTube (mostly PhilsComputerLab) and VOGONS taught me how to work on all this retro stuff, and when I was a kid I would make XP and 98 virtual machines for fun so I got really used to both of them. (I still like 2000 the most)
ParetoOptimal 3y ago
I'm wishing for a serious UX-driven attempt to create a discord replacement built on top of Matrix.
- _chu1 3y ago
  I long for one that isn't a glorified web browser as well
  - Arathorn 3y ago
    honestly the next gen of matrix clients built on matrix-rust-sdk should all qualify for this - whether Element X on iOS/macOS or Android, or Fractal on GTK, or iamb for TUI with vim bindings (or weechat-matrix-rs when it’s ready). nary a web browser in sight.
OkayPhysicist 3y ago
What do y'all find issue with in Discord? Compared to literally everything else in a vaguely related space (whether on the org management side of things, Slack, Teams, etc., or on the broader video/voip/messaging side of things), Discord has pretty fantastic user experience, at least to my tastes.
- _chu1 3y ago
  1. Been through 6 accounts, A slightly edgy joke will get you banned and appeals are not accepted nor are they replied to anymore. 2. The "app" is literally just Electron and somehow they still screwed it up, it's laggy, always being overhauled, and almost always has a new useless feature only for nitro that increased it's size several hundred megabytes. 3. Used to be fast and pleasant to use on mobile until a major redesign I had to revert from that put everything in tabs and made it look like every modern mobile chat application. 4. Nobody really cares about this anymore, but the people on their platform-wide moderation team were caught back then having very egregious double standards, allowing content that was on the border of being CP because of "artistic interpretation", look up discord cub controversey for more information
  - OkayPhysicist 3y ago
    Where are you posting enough offensive content to catch multiple, platform-level bans? I get the impression we use Discord very differently.
    - _chu1 3y ago
      To be fair I got banned trolling like twice and I could kind of recall what got me banned, but at the same time I'm still not too sure because the process is the opposite of transparent and you aren't alerted to what got you banned, nor are you allowed to save your data from your account.

by _chu1 3y ago

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago

Is there a blog post or somesuch about this P3 of yours? I'm twice your age, P3 was my first CPU so I'd love to hear more about it!

_chu1 3y ago
You know, I actually should start a blog. I hope you don't mind if I just talk about the PC here. Wanted a retro build for mid to late 90s games, did almost an entire year of research and after a failed attempt involving Socket 939 I finally found some guy on Facebook Marketplace of all places who was selling a "Retro Pentium 3 PC". I was shocked because I live in central Alabama and cool stuff is never sold here, me and my brother went to meet him and paid for it. I already knew the specs from messaging him but it had a 733MHz Coppermine P3, an odd 320MB of PC100 RAM, a Netgear GA311 (which I already had like 3 of) and a Voodoo3 3000 AGP. I cleaned it out, put it in a brand new ATX Cooler Master case, gave it a SATA hard drive with a SATA to IDE adapter, repasted the CPU, put in a new PSU, installed a Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS, got Windows 98 SE set up with Photoshop 7, Office XP and a crap load of games and it's been one of my favorite pieces of technology I've ever owned. Beat Deus Ex for my first time on there and my life was changed, my vision is now augmented. YouTube (mostly PhilsComputerLab) and VOGONS taught me how to work on all this retro stuff, and when I was a kid I would make XP and 98 virtual machines for fun so I got really used to both of them. (I still like 2000 the most)

ParetoOptimal 3y ago

I'm wishing for a serious UX-driven attempt to create a discord replacement built on top of Matrix.

_chu1 3y ago
I long for one that isn't a glorified web browser as well
- Arathorn 3y ago
  honestly the next gen of matrix clients built on matrix-rust-sdk should all qualify for this - whether Element X on iOS/macOS or Android, or Fractal on GTK, or iamb for TUI with vim bindings (or weechat-matrix-rs when it’s ready). nary a web browser in sight.

OkayPhysicist 3y ago

What do y'all find issue with in Discord? Compared to literally everything else in a vaguely related space (whether on the org management side of things, Slack, Teams, etc., or on the broader video/voip/messaging side of things), Discord has pretty fantastic user experience, at least to my tastes.

_chu1 3y ago
1. Been through 6 accounts, A slightly edgy joke will get you banned and appeals are not accepted nor are they replied to anymore. 2. The "app" is literally just Electron and somehow they still screwed it up, it's laggy, always being overhauled, and almost always has a new useless feature only for nitro that increased it's size several hundred megabytes. 3. Used to be fast and pleasant to use on mobile until a major redesign I had to revert from that put everything in tabs and made it look like every modern mobile chat application. 4. Nobody really cares about this anymore, but the people on their platform-wide moderation team were caught back then having very egregious double standards, allowing content that was on the border of being CP because of "artistic interpretation", look up discord cub controversey for more information
- OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  Where are you posting enough offensive content to catch multiple, platform-level bans? I get the impression we use Discord very differently.
  - _chu1 3y ago
    To be fair I got banned trolling like twice and I could kind of recall what got me banned, but at the same time I'm still not too sure because the process is the opposite of transparent and you aren't alerted to what got you banned, nor are you allowed to save your data from your account.