I use Vesktop, it has a flatpak release and flatpak auto-updates it for me. Also it includes Vencord, so I can add as many plugins and custom themes I want.
In all honesty I just use the browser now as that’s been the best experience with Discord for me.
Yup this. Tho if matrix gets desktop streaming I’m gone.
Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.
I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it’s supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.
That’s great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it’s looking like time to leave soon.
I fucking hate discord. Hope they ruin it.
Discord was really good in the first couple years. Way better than the alternatives in almost everything except sound quality. And getting virusses wasn’t as easy as it was on TeamSpeak3 back then.
Thats the thing…there’s no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.
I have been using Discord since the beginning in 2015 and back then I got people to Discord because it was cheap and offered more features. Currently the only way I convince people to swtich from Discord (or from Whatsapp) is either if they are privacy focussed or the alternative is way more convient or cheaper.
Fr, I have tried but unfortunately my friends are mostly normal people
Yeah exactly or they just say we are trying to be superior and annoying tech autists xD
~/.config/discord/settings.json
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true,Wait seriously? Does this stop it from forcing me to update it when an update is available but it’s not in my package manager yet?
Ooohh a useful response.
If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.
Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.
Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that’s what we used back in the day… like a decade ago, but maybe there’s something modern and more open nowadays?
Teamspeak doesn’t even have a fraction of Discord’s features. It’s a bad alternative.
Are you looking for something like mumble?
Yeah, voice chat is all we need.
Get yourself a cheap root server, install murmur and never look back.
All that work, and it’s a web wrapper.
When l was on it I saw no point in running it outside a browser tab
My experience with Discord, period:
That’s why I use third party apps
Thank God im not the only one. I feel like I’m going crazy when all my friends do nothing but worship discord.
I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.
Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use it to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.
Oh well, maybe I’m old.
My understanding is that the core appeal is that they provide free private VoIP service, which was something that a lot of people wanted for multiplayer games.
I don’t use that, and like you, I have not been very impressed with their chat stuff.
I assumed there was something wrong with my setup because this UX is insane. Good to know it’s just shit.
Why? The browser client is ok.
Not if you need system wide PTT
I mean there is always the flatpak version
Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
Does the same on windows. Either they’re constantly changing some really deep stuff that we don’t see or notice, or it’s not actually updating just “checking” for updates or loading but it’s just slow AF.
Nah, this isn’t the launcher doing checks and applying patches, I mean like I gotta download a new .deb (basically .exe) file with an incremental difference in the version number and unpack it over the old install.
Ridiculously frequently. Like, once a week at the very least.
Okay Jesus, I think that’s just someone at discord smoking something.
Discord is trash software. Always has been.
Are there better alternatives you don’t have to self host?
Frankly, no, they all come with some caveat.
Revolt. It just needs a larger userbase.
Centralized service with questionable moderation
It’s missing a field for multi-chat rooms.
Isn’t that just group chats? Or what do you mean with multi chat rooms?
Discord has a group chat feature and drag doesn’t really use it. It’s not what drag wants. Drag wants rooms with many chats inside. Permissions, topics, threads. A sorted hierarchy of chats with a sense of place.
XMPP
Honestly people should go back to writing letters
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use the browser
Ever since the update where screen sharing works FINALLY natively in plasma I just used the flatpak discord
I have to use Discord Canary for that but yeah. Flatpak all the way.
Well that’s just their beta branch of discord, the main branch now has the screen share fix, been using it for a few months now
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": trueI’ve been using the browser client.
The browser can’t do push to talk though, right?
It can but it’s useless
It only works if the browser tab is focused.
Not very useful as a PTT key.
