Another User Interface Thread
So, honestly the biggest issue I really take with this most recent update is that is just doesn't feel Discord enough anymore. It was clean cut, square, it looked nice. Things move along and things obtain more and more roundness, from the corners of the message boxes to the server icons getting cut into circles unless highlighted, to irremovable icons on the message box (I actually do not use the gift feature cause I'm a poor person, nor the gif functionality) and other features that I just didn't want to see but was forced to.
This extends into the mobile app recently as the message box is now completely circular on each side, the + icon (on Android myself) on the side immediately brought up my images which already has the option to move to the camera if I wanted it. Instead it is a > that brings up the Camera and Images option, the latter of which just does what it used to, opened my images and had the option to open the camera still.
Checking the emoticon button now I notice it actually loads slower than before. This is just me, but that seems kinda silly. The search functionality is nice, but I honestly don't know if it was there before because I mostly just consist of :scree: and :LUL: or :LOL: emoticons from a specific server. The old method of opening the emoticon selector was fine as it was on Android.
I also noticed that attempting to paste something in immediately brings up the keyboard now, which is irritating if I'm not trying to make a change to the URL and just want to tap at the bottom of my screen to quickly send it out. It was like that for images I saved as well, a simple tap and I had all the tools I already wanted in front of me and more if I hit the + for additional programs to pull stuff from.
I'm okay with some roundness, I do like the look of it, but only on square bodies. I don't really like the circular nature of many things, although I understand that it has great appeal outside of what the common body of Discord used to be. I understand these sort of changes may also be because you are attempting to welcome in new users that are flooding in because of our recent pandemic happening in our world today. That's alright and I do not hold that against those making the decisions and coding them in.
What I really don't like is how these changes are effectively forced upon us with little ability to remove unwanted parts that have been added from the beginning. You gave us those sort of options with hiding the store and some other things on our personal tab at the top, but to me these sort of things are a rare commodity as features are force fed down our throats.
These changes just seem obtuse at this point, and as I said it may be because we're seeing an influx from other platforms like Messenger and you want to appeal to those people by giving them a change to your platform that lets them ease into it with familiarity. Again, that's alright, I get that. At the same time, for right now though, I have two requests. The first is obviously please revert back to the old UI for now.
The second is much more difficult to ask as I have a general understanding that coding is a fickle mistress. It's that Discord takes in the idea of working with different UI styles: round, square but round edges, and bubbly round. This is something probably no one else does, and even though we vocal may be fewer than those that don't care or like it I feel being able to cater to different styles like this would be something many would enjoy.
Even if it is just a flat sort of "This changes all the UI, no mixing and matching" I'd be fine with it as it'd be something we could all enjoy, or a bigger degree of people at least.
That's all, thanks for the time of reading, everyone. I hope your weekend is well during our pandemic'd world.
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Long pressing things you can't see what you've selected, instead you get reactions where the message used to be, kind of inconvenient if you ask me.
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>I also noticed that attempting to paste something in immediately brings up the keyboard now, which is irritating if I'm not trying to make a change to the URL and just want to tap at the bottom of my screen to quickly send it out.
This one is absolutely driving me insane. I really hope this gets fixed.
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Better compatibility with the browser version (no download/in-browser) for all browsers currently in use would be the more likely approach to eliminating issues / increasing features on any platform while minimizing coding needed. Right now, on the Xbox (Xbox Edge Browser), the in-browser client fails to load the website properly. This causes the website to just spin the loading icon forever... Wished this would get fixed. UWP would the BEST way to include it on Xbox - While we are talking about compatibility and inclusion to Discord across platforms.
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The biggest issue with any version of Discord is user interface , it is exceptionally counterintuitive and convoluted . Literally anything , but texting requires google search . It has distinct lunxy feel - literals every operation ( renaming , scanning , creating links) made intentionally difficult . So complaining about a minor interface differences is comical
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You came in to necro a seven month old complaint just to point out that a change that had just happened at that period in time to say that mentioning it at all is comical, and you didn't stop to think you yourself aren't a clown? You could have just made your own useless thread remarking the same and not waste my time coming back here to read your crap.
If you think you're good enough to go around old threads making yourself look good by throwing down on others for their remarks on a mobile change months, then go spend the time making a better service rather than waste your time here inflating what little ego you have.0
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