You know, I'm glad you asked! I've been looking forward to writing these down.
Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work. The calls often die midway without telling you, until you realize you're just talking into the void. Tried on multiple devices (including mobile), same result.
When I hear a message come in, I have no way of knowing where it came from. There is an inbox button, but the message at the top is not the one that made the sound, and the list appears to have some kind of infinite scroll (so it isn't at the bottom either! Or maybe it is but I'm in too many servers?). I actually did find a trick for identifying what channel a message was in, assuming it's part of a busy conversation -- clear the inbox and wait for the next one. (If it's just one message, that doesn't work.)
It also logs me out every single time I visit, often just hours apart, which I can only assume is intentional, to try and get me to download their electron spyware instead of using the web version? At least I hope it's a dark pattern and not incompetence, because I'd prefer to believe I live in a world where competence is misdirected, than one where it is absent.
> Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work
I've never had this happen. If there's anything to praise about Discord is that they have one of the best at-scale AV chat systems on the planet in my experience, and I've used a lot of them.
> appears to have some kind of infinite scroll
No idea what you're talking about. The only thing in Discord with infinite scroll is a channel chat frame, which isn't where you look for notifications.
> It also logs me out every single time I visit, often just hours apart, which I can only assume is intentional
I've literally never had this problem nor have I heard of anyone having this problem. Sounds like a browser issue.
> Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work. The calls often die midway without telling you, until you realize you're just talking into the void. Tried on multiple devices (including mobile), same result.
YMMV
We specifically switched one group to Discord just because the voice/video chat works every single time.
Ahh, apparently the part where it scans every process you have open can be disabled in privacy, it's checked locally against a known list of games and the data is never uploaded [0]. (But it still quits if you try to block the connection?) Still, the very principle is not something I am comfortable with. [1]
Then don't use Discord. It's a gaming chat that is intended to be used while gaming as a primary goal of their service.
There are a wide variety of reasons to be critical of discord (many of them having little to do directly with Discord in particular) but the way they go about process scanning is unintrusive and pretty typical of similar apps, such as Steam, which is actually way more intrusive in some cases due to VAC.
Discord is a social media gaming program, it tracks what games you're playing so it can prompt your friends to join you in the game. It's not an Office Slack replacement which is also spyware, it's a gaming chat which grew out into being used by FOSS projects partly because it's so good cross-platform and partly because of IRC's gradual decline. You can see it happening in the always-on user list on the side which shows people are "Playing $Game" in their status. It also changes your status, visible in the client, I think.
Wacom tablets are a local computer input device. They have no business tracking or uploading anything in normal use, and you have no expectation or way to notice that it's happening.
All of your chat is sent to, and archived by, Discord, forever. That's annoying but server-central-not-encrypted-chat is their product. If I found all of my Discord chat messsages were being copied and uploaded to Wacom and archived forever, by a Wacom driver/app, I'd be incensed.
> It also logs me out every single time I visit, often just hours apart, which I can only assume is intentional, to try and get me to download their electron spyware
Also any discord invite link redirects to discord:// which of course breaks if you don't have the app installed. There's literally zero reasons for that behavior as replacing discord:// with discord.com just works
If you replaced the discord protocol with the website address, wouldn't that stop it from opening in the client for everyone who has the client installed?
I started noticing this the past few weeks with the desktop app. Not sure if it's new, but it's sure a PITA to share a link from discord by first clicking it to open it (into browser) then copying the browser's URL. Even just pasting from one discord server to another server requires this extra nonsense.
Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work. The calls often die midway without telling you, until you realize you're just talking into the void. Tried on multiple devices (including mobile), same result.
When I hear a message come in, I have no way of knowing where it came from. There is an inbox button, but the message at the top is not the one that made the sound, and the list appears to have some kind of infinite scroll (so it isn't at the bottom either! Or maybe it is but I'm in too many servers?). I actually did find a trick for identifying what channel a message was in, assuming it's part of a busy conversation -- clear the inbox and wait for the next one. (If it's just one message, that doesn't work.)
It also logs me out every single time I visit, often just hours apart, which I can only assume is intentional, to try and get me to download their electron spyware instead of using the web version? At least I hope it's a dark pattern and not incompetence, because I'd prefer to believe I live in a world where competence is misdirected, than one where it is absent.