Please learn sufficient UI/UX to fit the Discord desktop client window in half of a 1080p screen.

Discord doesn't tile properly because of minimum widths. It won't fit in portrait mode. It barely fits on a 720p screen, and it takes up too much space on a 1080p screen - basically demanding a full screen on anything less than 4K. I've got a USB 1024x600 monitor that Discord thinks it's too good for.

Some people have vision issues and limited budgets (due to disabilities, class inequality and other causes) which preclude them buying a 40" 5K monitor just to run a messenging app. Respect the fact that people need your client to fit in a slim profile in their monitors. Maybe so they can crank up the font size and still do other things.

This is not a multimedia platform focused on image and video. If it was, it wouldn't waste 430+ pixels on static, unusable sidebar space and inflated margins that most people don't need. It's also not a 3D game. It's not a lifestyle. It's a messaging platform. And it's not the only one that people use.

Nobody runs Discord as their primary application. That's the way it sees growth. The only thing that should be mandatory to display is the message panel. Messaging is a secondary need that has no business taking up the lion's share of the most common standard monitor resolution. That's terrible design. Might as well put the hecking chonker channel list on the blockchain and mint NFTs from it, based on the fact that it never changes and demands to be a part of literally everything you see, despite being not that important to daily workflow. SRSLY.

People have been complaining about this for 3+ years in dozens (if not hundreds) of feedback posts, and you've made zero attempts to listen on this. I'm hoping that a more blunt post will cause whatever patently obtuse corporate manglement that's obstructing this to fall in line. This is the kind of design decision that Bezos would make and mandate despite focus groups showing that it ruins engagement. I'm sure everyone's grandpa thinks it's super convenient to have all the channels super wide and constantly visible so he can quickly shift between all his conspiracy info servers and channels at the 1820s speed of a brisk walk to share the same terrible misinformation image macro in 30 different places. Most people without liver spots these days mute most channels except for a few, and switch between them only on new notifications.

There's a lot of ways to do this from a technical perspective. Collapsible channel lists. Configurable user/channel panels. Auto-hide for server and channel panels. Allowing it to move to the same sidebar as the search/channel members pane and switch with tabs. Surely you can figure something out on how to do this - given that every other client can manage this, and you don't insist on this overly-wide interface on mobile. Slack, as obnoxious as it is, is usable at less than 500 pixels with the same basic layout, while Discord greedily insists on more than 1200. Figure it out. It doesn't need to be 100% perfect by release as long as you start refining it now.

Every few weeks there's another polite request for this that gets completely ignored. You don't seem to understand how important it is that this bug gets fixed. That's right. This isn't a feature request. It's a bug report for you to fix the design mistakes that have made us suffer with this for 3+ years. Probably longer, but I found a feedback post from back then and stopped searching

We have to use the official discord client because of the TOS. Modding it with scripts is also not really an option for the same reason. Why is the discord app so obnoxiously unusable like this? You're either forcing people to use a dedicated browser window and forego the overlay or waste massive monitor space on this. I'm literally looking into running a second browser 24/7 just to escape this minimum width foolishness.

This isn't hard, and it's not an unreasonable request. It is unreasonable, however, to ignore it for years despite it being low-hanging fruit. We don't care if it means we have to fiddle with the widths to make it look nice. It's better that it works properly for our workflows than obeying whatever 2000s-era HIG you've been following that caused this. Please fix it already.