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Couldn't they focus some of their creativity on making the UI look less like the inside of a middle schooler's brain?

• ronsor 8mo ago
  Why would they make their UI less familiar to their target audience?
  • esafak 8mo ago
    The problem is that a lot of people who are not part of that target audience have to suffer that UI to get work done.
    • esseph 8mo ago
      > suffer Really? :/
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    • anon7000 8mo ago
      Discord is honestly not great for work, but there are lots of other tools. I think they should focus on what’s made them successful, which is gamers and communities.
      • iwontberude 8mo ago
        They should realize charging people $100/year per person for Nitro and $500/year for server boosts means that they don’t want to be advertised to and have their data stolen.
    • saagarjha 8mo ago
      You’re choosing the gaming chat for your work though
      • Filligree 8mo ago
        It's the one that works.
      • esafak 8mo ago
        I am not; I did not create the communities I am a member of. Dozens of them; none about gaming.
• ipdashc 8mo ago
  In what ways does it look that way, if you recall? I hear this semi-often, but I don't really get it. The base UI of Discord is pretty normal / looks just like every other chat app out there. Is it the ads for nitro and stuff like that were the issue?
  • ronsor 8mo ago
    I think the base UI of Discord is fine, but having used it for almost a decade at this point, the UI has gotten worse. Besides the ads you've mentioned, they've added a lot more clutter (random icons, rarely used features, hidden menus, etc.). When I look at screenshots from 2019, I weep.
    • ipdashc 8mo ago
      There's a bit of clutter for sure, but I don't find it too objectionable. As the sibling comment mentioned, the super reacts are really annoying, and so are the ads, but it's overall alright.
      • everforward 8mo ago
        Most of the clutter I would complain about comes more down to Discord making it really easy to bloat a server (and a cultural expectation to do so). I’m in more than one Discord that has more channels than routine users. Like there are 4 people that use it on at least a weekly basis but there’s a meme channel, a pet photos channel, a news channel, yada yada. Managing notifications is a lost cause because the server owner redecorates the server every other week into new channels and what not. Profiles have gotten weirdly wild, to sell Nitro stuff. Statuses, emojis for the status, now flairs from a server, profile pictures, etc. Constant notifications for junk. Nitro is on sale, some game I don’t play has a quest, etc. It’s fine, but it feels like Discord wants to be more than a carrier for voice and chat and I really just want them to do that. I don’t need “Facebook with VoIP”
        • ipdashc 8mo ago
          > I’m in more than one Discord that has more channels than routine users. Likewise, and I find it quite annoying too, but I don't think it's really Discord's fault. They default to one text and one voice channel, after all. The ability to add new channels easily is a good thing, but people do go a bit crazy with it. > Statuses, emojis for the status, now flairs from a server, profile pictures, etc. The server flairs are kind of odd, but aren't the rest of those pretty bog- standard features for a messaging app? I do agree the notifications are annoying, though. At the same time I get it, they do need to make money somehow.
• sourcegrift 8mo ago
  Except they, or more precisely speaking -- RGB keyboard/computer case buyers-- are their target audience, low IQ high spenders