Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

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    7 months ago

    I actually did subscribe for it initially when nitro first became available, but they made so many shitty decisions that they no longer deserved my money.

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      7 months ago

      What decisions have impacted your ability to use the service? I’m not keen on all of the choices they’ve made, but they also don’t negatively impact the way that discord serves me.

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        7 months ago

        There’s been a lot of little things over the years, adding clutter and moving buttons around for no apparent reason. The usability is still pretty good overall, I avoid the community side mostly anyway nowadays and just use it to speak with friends. Most notably recently with the mobile app change, god that thing is the perfect example of shitty UX, luckily the old APKs still work.
        I’d love people to move on to a more privacy respecting option, but getting people to move is an almost impossible task and the options arent all that great at the moment.

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          7 months ago

          I didn’t mind the mobile UI update, it had some kinks at first that I mostly think have been worked out. So some of these kinds of things will just be difference of taste.

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            7 months ago

            I don’t think having to swap sections on the app to use server and use messages will ever be a good change, the update added a lot of extra steps to find information. The original app worked like their desktop app, so it’s natural to use either, whereas now it’s completely different, crazy what was going through their heads with it (well money, trying to sell cosmetics).

            But if you don’t mind it, that’s fair.