• gndagreborn@lemmy.world
      141·
      14 days ago

      Thank God im not the only one. I feel like I’m going crazy when all my friends do nothing but worship discord.

      • Gerudo@lemm.ee
        101·
        14 days ago

        Not at all. I loathe discord with a passion. I can’t understand how such a unintuitive piece of software gained such mainstream acceptance.

        • Redex@lemmy.world
          4·
          13 days ago

          What do you find unintuitive? Of all the complaints I personally never found it unintuitive to use.

          • Gerudo@lemm.ee
            2·
            13 days ago

            Everything? It’s hard to describe, but anytime I want to do anything, it just seems like the menu is in the wrong spot, or I have to jump through hoops to do what needs to get done.

            • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              11·
              13 days ago

              That would be from the 8 redesigns they’ve done in the past year or so. Not going to praise the dumpster fire, but intuitiveness has not been an issue for most of discords common uses. If you were incessantly messing with settings of a server though, that’d track.

              • Gerudo@lemm.ee
                2·
                13 days ago

                Oh, this is day one, I have loaded it up like once in the last year. I’m not the only one who says it either. Back in the day on reddit, I’d post about it and would always have tons of people agree.

                I can deal with Gimp and all kinds of alt versions of popular software all day long with minimal hassle learning new UI. Discord, for being the most popular software of its platform, for some reason, just doesn’t click for me. Why ventrillo didn’t keep the crown amazes me.

                I’ll just go back to being the old man yelling at the clouds.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
        64·
        14 days ago

        I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.

        Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use it to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.

        Oh well, maybe I’m old.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          My understanding is that the core appeal is that they provide free private VoIP service, which was something that a lot of people wanted for multiplayer games.

          I don’t use that, and like you, I have not been very impressed with their chat stuff.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      10·
      14 days ago

      Wait seriously? Does this stop it from forcing me to update it when an update is available but it’s not in my package manager yet?

      • poinck@lemm.ee
        1·
        14 days ago

        Yes. I can confirm, it works even on Gentoo. But I stick to the Flatpak version, anyway, because there I was able to tell it to use Xwayland instead of wayland directly (through Flatseal).

        It seems the wayland support isn’t great yet and it tries to grab keys combination that are reserved for my window manager (Gnome). In the flatpak sandbox I don’t have any issues.

        Only game running game detection will not work in the sandbox.

        Or is there even a setting to tell it, using the X11 backend so that the keybind issues for the native version go away?

    • paequ2@lemmy.today
      16·
      14 days ago

      Yep. I didn’t realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.

    • squinky@lemm.ee
      3·
      14 days ago

      Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      I actually use the Vesktop Flatpak. It’s got working screen sharing with audio on Wayland (not sure if the official client has implemented that yet) and it has Vencord preinstalled for plugins and themes.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      14 days ago

      It is so annoying when communities really want to have a discord. Particularly when they are somewhat technical and so any solutions that they might have are not search able.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
      123·
      14 days ago

      The flatpak has (had?) Issues of not being able to stream application or desktop audio. The system package can and is way more up to date.
      Flatpak is not the solution to everything lol

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
        82·
        14 days ago

        That’s a wayland specific issue and I believe the Flatpack version was right behind the version that finally fixed that about 3 months ago. It should have the good version finally but I won’t bother to check.

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
          11·
          14 days ago

          Im not using wayland lol
          Too many issues in linux mint (cinnamon) last time i tried :')

      • boneyards@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 days ago

        Using the flatpak version on Fedora. That issue seems to be recently solved not sure when exactly just tried it the other day and it worked!

      • KNova@infosec.pub
        2·
        14 days ago

        I believe the audio streaming issue on flatpak is resolved as of a month or two ago. But I’m typically with you, system packages for the most up to date experience in most cases.

      • daggermoon@lemmy.world
        57·
        14 days ago

        I never said it was. The Discord Flatpak always worked for me. Not saying it didn’t for you, it just hasn’t been my experience.

  • Cossty@lemmy.world
    42·
    14 days ago

    If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      71·
      14 days ago

      Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.

      Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that’s what we used back in the day… like a decade ago, but maybe there’s something modern and more open nowadays?

  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
    192·
    14 days ago

    check out vencord (or vesktop) just in time for discord to completely enshittify. while you’re looking, consider something like revolt chat instead?

    • Colloidal@programming.dev
      2·
      14 days ago

      Oh that looks nice! I was using Dissent which is very light on resources but I kept running on a couple issues. I’ll try that.

      • Kyouki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        Another one I can recommend is equibop (web version wrap of Discord) and equicord (discord client modification with vencord)

    • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      13 days ago

      Revolt is still extremely beta, at least last I checked it out?

      Vesktop (on flatpak I believe) is just a discord wrapper with plugin support, actually a really great experience!!

      Still, here’s hoping literally any FOSS discord clone gets fully off the ground sometime soon. The enshitification is so fucking real.

  • VitabytesDev@feddit.nl
    15·
    13 days ago

    I use Vesktop, it has a flatpak release and flatpak auto-updates it for me. Also it includes Vencord, so I can add as many plugins and custom themes I want.