Make the new Voice Text Channels easier to find and use
I think that this new voice text feature is a really good and useful thing that makes Discord servers clean since you don't need dedicated "No microphone" channels or refer to other channels to send links etc. to others in the call.
But there are a few big problems regards the accessibility of these channels as of now, they are hard to find to begin with. If you don't know about the feature, you won't find it at all since it's a really small hidden icon.
The way you could solve this and make features be more streamline following the same structure for all features would be to make them look more like threads. Showing these text channels the same way as threads are shown below the main channel would be a really good way of helping people find them and thus making the feature more accessible.
Maybe make them visible only when you're in the main voice channel and hide them when disconnecting, so that they don't fill the navigation menu clogged with duplicate channels.
Another reason for making it more like threads is for people that don't want to talk in voice or have a broken microphone, but they still want to be active in the conversations. Today I'm in a lot of servers that have a separate channel like "no-microphone" used for this. The way this feature is right now, this isn't really a good option since it's way harder to know if someone writes in these text channels. Having them as threads would make this way easier to see if people write in them. This way they don't get missed by the people on the call.
Another thing that I think would be good to have is to make it possible, like for threads to open the chat in the full chat layout instead of just having it in a small bar on the side and hiding other things like the online list etc. This is also something that already is used for threads.
I think that having things more accessible and having the same structure on as many things as possible is really important to make Discord user friendly, especially for new users.
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