Because a big “Join our community discord server!” on the game’s title screen isn’t enough apparently. They have to put a flashy animated GIF at the top of every update notification, change the name of the game’s Steam forum to “Join Our Discord!”, and even reply to posts in the Steam forum saying “You should join our discord so we can chat about it!” as if a forum isn’t a good place to chat about the thing that’s already being discussed.

Bitch please, if I wanted to be in the hell that is Discord I’d already be there, you can stop asking.

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      Not OP, but:

      • Not indexable (can’t use web search engines on its content, not even forums);
      • Like Deep Rock Galactic, Discord is full of cave-dwelling creatures that abduct miners;
      • The built-in search feature (the only way you can search things on it, mind you) has less filters than my uncle at thanksgiving;
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
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      • Can’t mute the entire server because you want notifications for mentions on a few specific channels;
      • Said server creates a new channel;
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • @everyone
      • Can’t use browser bookmarks to manage and enter servers, you have to use THIS fucking thing
        • but they have to pay for uptime somehow
          confirmshaming, plus they got the monopoly on this type of social services by undercutting their competition through venture capital so they could go under tomorrow for all I care
      • Irrelevant for most people, but the garbage uncollapsible UI makes it painful to make it share screenspace with other windows on a FHD screen (which is a tragedy for tiling WM users);
      • The markdown implementation is a bit janky IME
      • By reading the first 9 words of this notice you accept that you may not sue us and have to arbitrate your disputes
      • Third-party clients are against TOS, as you noted below
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        5 days ago

        😆 very good list. I can imagine all of those problems.

        I’m very lucky, I am active in maybe 1 server, and then there’s my own which a few of my friends are active in. We’re just in our late 30s gaming with each other. Literally only use discord for the voice channels, nothing else. And I use Niri now, so tiling space is okay.

        But I can see why it’s not like this for everyone! 😩

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        I was looking around for Discord TUIs or even third party GTK4 Discord clients. None seemed reasonable that I could find, that also supported voice chat. (None do, almost?)

        Seems also that using such clients are against the TOS. 😒