The February 2020 update is hell for disabled and neurodivergent people.
This 'update' adds so much noise, both by adding in the new emoji bar, auto-darkening messages when hovered over, and also with all the changes to text formatting that make it ever more cluttered and disorganised, ruining text purposeful text formatting, etc.
Please bring back the grey line between people's messages, and go back to the old unread messages line.
As someone with autism it's proving very stressful to read text chat in servers, especially very active ones, and it's given me a headache.
I struggle to see how this update managed to get to release, when it's abundantly clear that people are extremely unhappy with it, but neurodivergent and neurotypical alike, because nobody likes unnecessary noise. The only new feature that seems fine is the little timestamp to the left of individual messages when hovered over, but the fact that it's part of the darkening of messages when hovered over really ruins it.
If it's not broken, don't 'fix' it.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Idk if they hired some new people or something but man, they're really causing an uproar with these updates. How did they declutter something that didn't need it but cluttered everything where it counted?
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Absolutely no one I know is happy with these changes.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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YES! A million times yes, thank you for saying this! Discord, like every other company, needs to be more aware of their neurodivergent/disabled users. Updates like these just go to show how little thought is being put toward their userbase. Hopefully, with all the backlash its received, they'll roll back this update.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Где же Бот "Sarah Connor? Нам нужно обратно!
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It's not necessarily only a problem for users with accessibility limitations, removing that little separator between different users' messages just makes the whole interface look garbled even for regular users, and makes it especially hard to tell whose message is whose at a glance when people have the same or similar role colours. It's less of a problem in standard mode but compact mode just looks like a massive wall of text now, it's abysmal. I'm glad the team is trying new things but with the new tiny reaction menu being so easily misclickable and the arbitrary removal / rescaling of UI elements, this update just seems like a step backwards.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Absolutely this is my main concern also, yes it is annoying (and poorly thought out) the changes are for quite a lot of us but the accessibility concerns for those who don't fit that mold is really very poor (whether it be epilepsy, some kind of motor functionality or even just each humans observing and processing visual stimuli and information differently, this current UI is far more straining and just makes the experience more anxiety inducing and tiring which is amplified if you have disabilities of any kind)
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us more options instead of just forcing us to live with your "improvements".
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While the new update is cool and all I truly miss the old design
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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Dear Discord developers. We are your community and we are asking you to give us an ability to bring back an old chat version or just to switch back to it. The new version is not satisfying and makes Discord less enjoying to use.
With best regards, DEDNET community!11 -
Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat.
The new chat is difficult to read and makes everything jumbled.
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Discord developers, give us permission switch to old version chat. Please.
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