If update is available, Discord refuses to start until user downloads and installs the upgrade.
(This is on Ubuntu 20.04). I understand that this is not a problem on other platforms.
When starting Discord, if an update is available, the only thing it displays is download link. When closed and opened again, still the same. It straight out makes it impossible to start. When you select "I'll figure it out", it just closes the popup, Discord still doesn't start and it does it again on next startup!
This is incredible hostility towards users - blocking access to the service and forcing user to download updates.
This gets even more frustrating in that it does not say this out loud. It just passive-aggressively doesn't give you any other option and asks again and again.
To add insult to injury, it says "Must be your lucky day" while I am freaking out because I need to talk to someone and can't afford to wait for the download and installation.
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I have tried loading it on an iMac with Catalina but the program just persists in trying to update. I have deleted and re-loaded without any success.
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Have this now too. This is a really ugly behaviour, it was hard enough to endure that it does not launch if it has no connection to the update server. But this... for me it is just a fail to launch. I guess I will check out the alternatives maybe it is time to go back to Teamspeak.
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agreed
it's doubly frustrating when said update breaks core functionality (https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500000541481-Discord-client-thinks-it-s-in-a-browser-0-0-14-on-Linux-), because not only do I have to wait ages for it to download, there's no way to downgrade to a working version - it's just my "lucky day" again.0 -
How is this still not fixed? Who thought this would be a good idea??
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I have this now on my Ubuntu 18.04. It is not my lucky day and it means that discord is dead for me. I spend over an hour tying to fix the update dependencies and give up. One dependecy is reported in from the repository as unavailable. I wish people would stop using discord. I hate this software.
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I don't understand the benefit of this functionality, it seems pretty insane to immediately require people to update or they can't use Discord. As a package maintainer for multiple projects and Linux distributions, I can tell you for distros that package this (such as RPMFusion for Fedora) this makes it incredibly difficult for package maintainers to keep things up to date and working since Discord instantly starts rejecting all non-updated clients. Stop being ridiculous and disable this version check; I don't care if the old version is incompatible with and / or breaks the server side application. If your application is so poorly written that it can't handle a minor version difference between the server and client, you need to re-evaluate your software development practices.
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