Devs, If You Read This: Stop Fixing What Isn't Broken
I love Discord. Why do I love Discord? It combines my games with conversation, lets me have multiple servers with different friend groups, have lovely little categories with their lovely little channels within said servers. So organised! So efficient! So sleek and easy to read with the option for a dark theme, adjustable font sizes, icons for the different servers so I'm not squinting at letters and wondering what each one is again.
I don't love the update. I have not loved the updates this past week. Up until this week, I have not felt the need to participate in the Discord feedback forum, because the updates have all made sense. The option to have folders for servers (which, being optional, I don't use). The option to have categories for the channels within a server (which, being optional, I do use).
Removing the lovely little visual divider between messages, an innocuous, thin little line? A move that is not optional? That does not make sense. Making the red divider line proclaiming there's a new message, or series of new messages even more noticeable? That again, is not optional? I'll admit: that probably makes sense for some people, but not for my borderline-minimalist-chatroom-style-loving heart. Highlighting an entire message when your cursor scrolls over it, causing flickers when your cursor skims across it and flashing an intrusive emoji menu pop-up at the same time? Distressing for some people, including me. Irritating for a lot of people if the posts for the last few hours are any indication. I wouldn't be surprised if it caused problems for users with epilepsy.
Discord devs, if you read these as the official Twitter seems to suppose you do: please actually pay attention to the fact many of your users who have never taken to the feedback forum before are now. And please pay attention to the fact your updates in the last week have a fair amount of negative feedback.
Please listen to us when we say: please roll back these latest updates. Keep the Nitro button and where it is if you so desire (though it is highly annoying and fairly stressful to those of us who are broke college students living on the mercy of our parents and thus cannot afford subscription-based services). But please, for the love of whatever you consider holy...make the rest of these latest changes optional. Your greatest appeal in the last few years was how simplistic and user-friendly your service has been. It's becoming unnecessarily cluttered. And a fair amount of us simply don't like it, to put it mildly.
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beautifully put. i've never bothered to post on discord support because, like you said, every single update has made sense to me. this painful, botched facelift of a 'design' update? Not Great.
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exactly! you've worded this a lot better than i did. i want them to put it back
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Agreed wholeheartedly. I was going to post something like this myself, but you worded it far better than I could have.
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you took the feelings out of my head and put them into words +1
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Yeah, I never give feedback because even when I didn't like something it wasn't that bad for me, but this new feature is so intrusive, and... I don't even use those 3 emote that much so they are not very useful.
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Thank you for wording this so beautifully. I really hope they listen and revert it. The previous UI change I didn't like, well, fine, whatever. That one, I could get used to. It was bothersome, but it seemed to be a legitimate thing to help a bit with organization and readability and stuff. But this one? It's just really, really bad.
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Ironic that a big part of what made Discord so good compared to other similar services is how clean and intuitive it is/was, and this update seems determined to make is less and less so.
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I agree fully. I rarely react with emotes and when I did, the option that was there before worked more than fine. This one just annoys me.
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Please, at the very least, just let us toggle this on or off. Integrate it as part of a "minimal" or "classic" display mode or something.
The lack of chat dividers makes it seem so cluttered and hard to read, the new "new message" bar is hideous and doesn't fit the theme, and the react and "..." pop-out is intrusive,unnecessary, and honestly just irritating every time my mouse grazes over my chat window.
Please please please, as OP said, stop trying to fix things that work perfectly fine.3 -
Very well said.
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Nevermind the fact that this ui update is causing people physical issues. I know of two people having gotten headaches from looking at the UI, and a lot of Autistic people (myself included) have been suffering various anxiety issues trying to use it.
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