A Heartfelt Plea Regarding the New UI

Hallowisp
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By now, so many people have spoken up about their dislike of the new UI. This post is no different. But my distress is great enough that I had to speak up too.

Discord is my primary form of online socialization. It's the only social media I use. To have it feel unusable to me has been a source of daily upset since I downloaded the update. I actively loathe using it now, which is terribly inconvenient given the aforementioned reasons. I didn't know this would be an issue for me until it was.

The reason it feels unusable is because of the changes to the chat window itself. Posts highlighting on mouse hover and the new emoji bar add so much chaos to what used to be a clean, simple space. To me, highlight-on-mouse-hover implies this is a link that should be clicked. The constant flicker of post backgrounds is distracting at best and disorienting at worst. The emoji bar is an intrusive, unnecessary feature, and has done nothing but make it slightly more challenging for me to pin and edit posts.

All I'm asking for is an option to toggle these features off. I don't care what new features you develop as long as you give us the choice not to use them--especially ones that affect Discord core functionality.

Discord is an amazing app, and I'm so grateful for the way it's helped me connect with people. I have always loved using Discord, and have always been a staunch proponent. But ever since this update, I don't even want to look at it.

Please give us the option to turn off these new features. Please.

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  • ExtraCookie

    Agreed wholeheartedly! I don't want to look for alternatives, but this is such a constant annoyance.

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  • mischief

    If you use Discord on a web browser, you can do what I did and install this extension. Use it to inject all or just parts of the below CSS into 'discordapp.com'.

    I can't do anything about the new reactions menu through. I've become used to it actually. However, the background of the messages changing on hover sends me actually insane, so I definitely need that turned off so I don't throw my computer out the window.

    .message-2qnXI6 {
    /* Disable message background change on hover */
    background: #36393f!important;
    /* Remove extra padding in new update */
    margin-top: 0rem!important;
    }
    .groupStart-23k01U {
    /* Adjust extra padding in new update */
    margin-top: .5rem!important;
    }
    .timestampVisibleOnHover-2bQeI4 {
    /* Turn off timestamp on hover */
    display: none!important;
    }

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  • gnossienne
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    I feel the same way about the new Mobile layout. My eyes are very sensitive and seeing the white names give me a piercing headache.

    edit: learned from twitter that you can now change the font in settings. It only changes the text size, not the boldness of the name

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  • a doku

    The new UI also made it difficult to select text, I thought it was my mouse acting up but now I'm certain it's Discord's doing. It's almost impossible to it now, the text just randomly deselects itself or refuses to select at all.

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