New Update is Counterintuitive to Discord's Core Thematics

I, and many others, mainly migrated to Discord from Skype, TeamSpeak, and various html chatrooms because of Discord's smoother, less-cluttered, more modern, and easier-to-understand interface.

This new update not only makes everything needlessly complex (though you guys have been doing that already), it also has the aesthetic appeal of Apple's Messages crossed with a 2010's-era html chatroom. Increasing the number of clicks or taps it takes to perform any given action is the same reason we all migrated from Skype: needless, obfuscating, infuriating complexity that just doesn't need to be there. Hiding editing messages behind three separate clicks is not improving your customer's experience at all. Stop hiding everything behind popup menus--start actually de-cluttering and de-obfuscating everything. We come to Discord for a spacious, easy-to-understand experience, not the worst of early 2010s flash game programming.

Go back to the drawing board, and think a good, long while on 1. why you attracted your clientele in the first place, 2. why everything in modern programming is moving away from popup menus and endless clicking, and 3. why you want a chatting service's interface to be easy to read.

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Remixx

04 फरवरी 2020 04:29

I completely agree. Discord's theme now feels cluttered and messy. Not to mention the messages being closer together gives it a weird sense of it being compact. The highlighting and floating reaction bar are extremely distracting, and the "frequently used" emojis aren't even accurate. I don't recall anyone needing a quicker way to react to messages, and it's not appealing to anyone so far.