this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Themes are also locked behind nitro. Discord's latest innovation: charging people for simple css files that could be freely distributed and shared among users.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

that's the entire point of this post, not the existence of themes but the fact that discord is charging money for them

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I see another open source project's README.md implore me to jOiN oUr dIsCoRd "sERVeR"... ugh. What a shitty service.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hate how so many projects have replaced their support forums with discord servers too

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

It's funny, a website used to have dedicated forums and then they switched to discord. I said "Bet not even 2 months later the place will go to shit" and then they did. The problem with discord servers is that there's no accountability and banning users doesn't only stop them from speaking but also locks them out entirely. Naturally, the mods go power hungry and ban everyone who disagrees with them and because only people who are on board get to stay around, it leads to a culture of people who are scared to speak out.

The only abusive thing discord doesn't let them do is edit other people's comments, but that's hardly saying much because all they have to do is right click "delete" and it's gone forever. No record, no trace. Nothing. Not even law enforcement. It was as if they were never there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Also you can't effectively search discords for previously asked questions or technical help. It's incredibly shitty how half the internet seems to have moved there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I would rather poison myself with actual nitrogen dioxide than ever even contemplating buying discord nitro.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Discord users: They tried to do NFTs, everyone boycott Discord ^(yeah!!!)^

Discord users after they run a nitro sale: 😵 [memory blanking sound effect] 😀💰

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You've basically described the typical gamer squirrel brain to a T.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's because that literally happened. Someone was going on about how evil discord was for running their crypto scheme and how they were never going to see a dime from them then the day later after the sale they were posting emojis at me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay as a colourblind person what the fuck is "blurple"!? Isn't purple with blue added just a different shade of purple!? Or indigo (whatever the fuck that is)? Anything beyond red orange yellow green blue purple (fuck indigo/violet) is made up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

all color categories are made up

and the only ones whose corresponding wavelength ranges are directly detected by our eyes are ~red, ~green, and ~blue

take it from someone who this year failed a color vision test so spectacularly that the doctor asked him 'so do you just see in black and white?': let people like things

even fake as fuck shades of color that we KNOW THEY'RE JUST MAKING UP to mess with us

wait what

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I was much happier before I learned that they called their default colour "blurple." This hurts my soul.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Honest question, is there a good alt to discord?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Element and other Matrix clients

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Also searching for one. Tried Matrix-based apps, but no one from my friends wants to use that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not really. Discord effectively killed off all its competitors with how good it was. Now we’re left to suffer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Can't believe they have a monopoly on my furry porn server

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

there's revolt.chat i guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago