FOLKS POSTING ABOUT UI: find posts to upvote & comment on, there are too many posts for them to read already!

lauren_

Posting new ones makes it harder for them to read the details of the feedback, lots of us users agree that it needs more work but as someone who works in software myself (not on discord! to be clear!), I know that this much feedback is going to be a lot of work for them to get through. To get your voice heard, find someone else who's saying the same thing as you and upvote them! If discord is gonna take our feedback at all, upvotes *will* matter to them at least as much as people posting new things, and will also make it easier for them to find the argument for why it would be an improvement to revert x thing or y thing.

Also while I'm here, this is the custom css I applied with the Stylus chrome extension to get the old line heights back and reposition the emoji hover thing so it's aligned with the message (I use discord in chrome, this won't work on the desktop app or mobile):

[class*="compact"][class*="message"][class*="container"] {

/* this restores the line height of previous discord - actually it might be a little less than that, I'm not sure, it's what looked good to me */
padding-top: 0px !important;
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
}
[class*="compact"][class*="message"][class*="container"]:hover {

/* I like the hover, so this actually makes it stronger, not weaker */
background-color: #46494f;
}

[class*="buttonContainer"] > [class*="buttons"] {

/* this shrinks the emoji add buttons and decreases the amount they're offset above the message */
top: -6px;
transform: scale(0.8);
}

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Comments

7 comments

Date Votes
  • AL

    I've actually been liking every post about it for the past 4 hours.. 

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  • lauren_

    Awesome :) similar, but some people were still posting so I wanted to get their attention and try to slow that down. props for the good work o7

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  • Did Your Mother ***A Snowman!?
    • Edited

    It doesn't need "more work" the update needs to be reverted, keep it simple and clean as it was.

    I've upvoted every topic I've seen on the front page of Feedback>Chat that pertains to the UI, I don't go out of my way to log in to the support site for nothing; this is the first and hopefully the last time I'll have to do this to voice my complaint about a bad UI update. I've never had a problem with any Discord or Discord UI update until today when I updated and I've personally never seen this much complaining about a UI update in Discord Servers as I have with this one.

    I absolutely hate the UI changes that came out with this update.

    There will be many more postings about this UI update either in previous posts or new ones, whether on this support forum or on reddit and elsewhere. The message should be heard loud and clear from the Discord community.

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  • lauren_

    No for sure @ complaining, same, I've never used this site in particular before, but from experience being on the other end of sites like this, it's actually harder to figure out for sure if lots of users want a thing if a few users are very loud about it. Because many people agree, it'll be more effective to let that be seen, and people posting new things make the highly upvoted ones a little less visible.

    I think, uh, experts (you and I and the other person over there and the rest of us all), are divided about what parts of this update are good, and what I mean by "more work" is that not being clean and simple is a thing that happens when you make a rushed change - it feels to me like the things that bother me about the change are things that only are part of the change by mistake, really, like the emoji picker should be less prominent but I do like it being *very slightly* more prominent than it was before, much less than now. I do think merely reverting the most recent change is probably the right move for them, idk why they still haven't - it should be pretty quick to do. shrug, we're allies in this.

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  • Demonfang Arun

    I think the mentality is that the wave of "THIS NEW UI SUCKS" posts is to get that simple fact through the heads of whoever was behind this change and to get it reverted in its entirety.

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  • Did Your Mother ***A Snowman!?
    • Edited

    To be blunt, they shouldn't have rolled out the UI update like this; there should've been beta testing for it to iron it out.
    They've got no one to blame but themselves if they struggle to keep up with the amount of complaints they're getting.

    I personally don't like how more prominent the reaction button is, I don't like how it seemingly pops out of the message along with the "more options" icon; I don't like the highlight feature for it and the rest of the messages and I don't like that the message dividers are gone.

    I hate the 2/4/2020 UI Update

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  • Flash

    The update is horrible and should be reverted, simple as that.
    There are a lot of posts about it with a lot of up votes, they just don't listen.

    Either they are not working or they just don't care because there should've been an answer by now.

    It's like when everyone is asking to improve the blocking feature and they just say that they can't and that we should deal with it lmao, they just don't give a single f

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