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Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait, really? It's not even that big a change! That's a hell of a thing to cut and run for

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's quite a massive change and significantly impacts usability in a lot of cases and it also makes Discord no different from any other app.

If they had just kept the server list in the direct messages view this would've been way less worse.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m so confused. When I got this unexpected change I was so excited. This is exactly what’s been wrong with the UX in that app. It’s so much clearer now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It messes with a ton of my common actions and doesn't make them better. Things being hidden behind weird actions now. Some of it will just require me to get used to it, but some of it seems genuinely more cumbersome to perform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fundamental disconnect here seems to be some people think apps being "clearer" makes them better, regardless of how much functionality is hidden or straight up lost.

And that's not just about Discord, that's the theme across the board, it seems. Some people want aesthetics, some people want usability, and UX designers nowadays seems hellbent on pissing off the latter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But the only thing I see changed is that “dm” was moved to the bottom bar instead of the server list (which made no sense)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Data density in UX has been downhill since Microsoft Office added the ribbon in 2007.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you enjoy having them separate? I much prefer the old layout, it makes a lot more sense to keep everything in the same place and require less swiping to get between them. Having two different sections is annoying and having it one way in the mobile UI and another way in the desktop UI is beyond stupid. I really wish they would just give us the option to pick our preferred layout.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

DMs are separate things. They aren’t a server. They’re outside of servers.

Better question is, why would you put a button for DMs in a list of servers?

I’m curious about your usage. Are you heavily into DMs? What % of activity is DM vs servers? Do you switch between them a lot? Are you a desktop user too? What % is desktop vs mobile?

For me I’m mainly in a single server (but have 50 others I drop in seldomly), and I rarely DM. I’m primarily desktop (my fulltime job uses discord for collab), but do mobile a lot off hours.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it also makes Discord no different from any other app.

Seems to be the consistent theme now. Legitimately, no app seems to want to have its own visual identity anymore, it's all the same shit, in white or black, with the same floating squircles, wasted screen space, laid out in a manner that provides less information. It's depressingly lifeless and Corporate Memphis levels of inauthentic. The result of a CEO saying "do an Apple" to the UX team, because they gotta hook that young demo, rather than do anything original, identifiable, or interesting.

And they certainly aren't about to spend any amount of time appealing to tech literate power users, or (god forbid) people who like to customize their own UIs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Discord was never usable for almost all handicaps

Source I work with blind developers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

puttin buttons at the top is a terrible ux for mobile apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You should read the last line of my comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just looked at the change, fully-prepared to feel outraged and claim they're changing things just to change them.

Nah. It's a fantastic, logical change imo. Same as when Firefox decided to move the address bar to the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If they had kept the server menu on the messages tab it would've been better, they also removed a bunch of normal menu actions and hid them and completely obstructed other things.

It would've been a logical change if they cared even a little bit more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait what change are we talking about? I don’t see any huge changes on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The update just came out pretty much, you’ll know when you get it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They roll out slowly, you’ll get it eventually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outside of a minor appearance change, they moved direct messages out of the server list and into their own space (never understood why they did it that way before), and added a way to quickly reply to a message at the expense of having to tap the channel name to see the member list instead of swiping... I'm missing how this is a massive change here and how it significantly impacts usability...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They hid a bunch of things behind menus, multiple button taps and separated two parts of Discord while they shouldn't be. Even ignoring all those useless changes, if they had just kept the server bar on the messages tab it would've been fine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You should have seen how mad people were over the time Discord slightly changed the shade of the icon

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've just seen this as an excuse to stop paying Nitro.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They could just stop anytime, they don't have to justify it

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure thing grandpa, let's get you to bed. Joe Biden can't hurt you there.