Making muted/deafened icons always appear in calls like they used to

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I use Discord on a secondary display for a variety of reasons, but the main one is that it makes it easy to see when someone has muted or deafened themselves. This is helpful, because if I'm ever talking to someone and they stop replying to me I can glance over and tell that they're muted, and that they're probably busy doing other things or are talking on the phone or something.

Aesthetics of the new UI aside, as those are subjective, this new UI is objectively worse in this aspect, because the only way I can tell if someone else in the call is muted or deafened is by going into the Discord window and moving my mouse into the call screen.

Even ignoring the usefulness of noticing if other people are muted or deafened, it was really easy to check before if I had myself muted or deafened by a quick glance onto my second screen. Now I have to look down in the bottom left corner and look for a tiny red slash over the headphone icon to see if I'm deafened.

Please, if you aren't going to revert to the old user interface because of all this backlash (which is what I'm hoping for), at least make this new UI as useful as the old one and have those muted / deafened icons appear all the time.

As it stands, regardless of everyone's opinion on the subjective appearance, you've pushed out a user interface update that is objectively less functional and makes the user experience worse.

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  • honoka

    yep, sucks. i've got discord open on my 2nd screen as well and this new update makes this pretty much useless to me

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  • crome221


    I just wanted to voice my feedback that I don't like the new look for DM calls. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE LOVE LOVE how sleek and aesthetic it looks, but it really bothers me that I can't see the mute indicator easily only unless I hover my mouse over it.

    My girlfriend and I love to sleep together on calls, and I like knowing that I am guaranteed muted and unmuted when I sometimes watch YouTube at night. Most of the other times, I'm usually operating discord while nearly fully asleep. I like and will genuinely miss the easy accessibility of just needing only to peek open my eyes a little to see if my ASMR cuddle microphone is working for her and that I'm not accidentally muted.

    This new disappearing aesthetic mute indicator also is colored to be white, bright, and lightly fades and quickly disappears, adding to the difficulty of trying to see it when I've already taken my contacts out at night and heading to bed on call. On top of that, I need to clearly see the mute indicator even after lowering my laptop's brightness down all the way, to sleep on calls. Since the beginning five years ago, I've never had these kinds of problems, and I've always been able to see the red mute indicator, but now I don't have any chance of seeing it anymore. The mute indicate is practically and almost literally non-existent anymore.

    Therefore, I wanted to suggest that you guys could add a settings feature to allow users to pick between the old red mute indicator or the disappearing aesthetic mute indicator. This is a needed feature for people with physical accessibility needs and slightly impaired vision, but the new design also adds a more professional look to discord. Thus, we don't want to throw it out completely.

    P.S. My girlfriend is ALWAYS ALWAYS being cute and shy and therefore likes to mute a lot, and I still want to just immediately know, when I alt-tab back to the call to check that she's not trying to hide from the horror movie we are screen share watching together on movie nights.

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