• VitabytesDev@feddit.nl
    13·
    2 days ago

    I use Vesktop, it has a flatpak release and flatpak auto-updates it for me. Also it includes Vencord, so I can add as many plugins and custom themes I want.

  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip
    17·
    2 days ago

    Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.

    • epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Does the same on windows. Either they’re constantly changing some really deep stuff that we don’t see or notice, or it’s not actually updating just “checking” for updates or loading but it’s just slow AF.

      • AppleTea@lemmy.zip
        3·
        2 days ago

        Nah, this isn’t the launcher doing checks and applying patches, I mean like I gotta download a new .deb (basically .exe) file with an incremental difference in the version number and unpack it over the old install.

        Ridiculously frequently. Like, once a week at the very least.

  • Cossty@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 days ago

    If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      6·
      3 days ago

      Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.

      Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that’s what we used back in the day… like a decade ago, but maybe there’s something modern and more open nowadays?

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      9·
      3 days ago

      Wait seriously? Does this stop it from forcing me to update it when an update is available but it’s not in my package manager yet?

      • poinck@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        Yes. I can confirm, it works even on Gentoo. But I stick to the Flatpak version, anyway, because there I was able to tell it to use Xwayland instead of wayland directly (through Flatseal).

        It seems the wayland support isn’t great yet and it tries to grab keys combination that are reserved for my window manager (Gnome). In the flatpak sandbox I don’t have any issues.

        Only game running game detection will not work in the sandbox.

        Or is there even a setting to tell it, using the X11 backend so that the keybind issues for the native version go away?

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        342·
        3 days ago

        Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.

        I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it’s supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.

        • KiwiTB@lemmy.world
          20·
          3 days ago

          That’s great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it’s looking like time to leave soon.

            • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
              3·
              3 days ago

              Discord was really good in the first couple years. Way better than the alternatives in almost everything except sound quality. And getting virusses wasn’t as easy as it was on TeamSpeak3 back then.

        • applemao@lemmy.world
          12·
          3 days ago

          Thats the thing…there’s no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.

            • applemao@lemmy.world
              51·
              3 days ago

              Yeah exactly or they just say we are trying to be superior and annoying tech autists xD

          • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
            3·
            3 days ago

            I have been using Discord since the beginning in 2015 and back then I got people to Discord because it was cheap and offered more features. Currently the only way I convince people to swtich from Discord (or from Whatsapp) is either if they are privacy focussed or the alternative is way more convient or cheaper.

          • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Element has audio issues on Linux? Didn’t notice it when I tested whether Matrix had what I needed (a month past). I’ll see if it screws up if I try again now.

            • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              Audio doesn’t seem to stream over Element regardless of operating system, I’m on Debian 12 and my buddies are on Windows, neither stream audio.

              Also Mobile devices lack streaming out-right.

              • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                That’s weird. I just tested it with a friend (I’m on Endeavour, she’s on Win11, the server is VPS with Debian running the newest Synapse and Element-web). Audio works fine both ways with no mic config required, streaming is a little laggy when viewing the screen and stream next to each other, but that’s all.

                EDIT: No, you’re right. Audio within streams seem to fail. I remember Discord having the same problem (hence why I use Vesktop), but if Windows also suffers this shortcoming? I’m pretty sure I remember it working a month ago, so there should be a bug report in Synapse (or element).

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      24·
      3 days ago

      When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.

      In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 days ago

      When I do, audio slowly shifts to one ear only, perhaps over 20m. Then I have to leave the channel and come back to reset it. This does not happen anywhere else, and also doesn’t happen on the desktop app, so I have to use that.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      Discord has become really annoying to use with all the ads. I confine it to my browser because I don’t trust it.

      With that said, I used to run Flatpak version and it never had this issue.

    • Tyoda@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 days ago

      Recently, while it was “out of date” and refusing to run but not yet updated in the Arch repo, I started wondering why I don’t just use the website. I now use the website.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    I just use the web version of discord :)
    cause i have more control on the web version and i dislike electron
    i cannot leave discord at this time

    • gndagreborn@lemmy.world
      161·
      3 days ago

      Thank God im not the only one. I feel like I’m going crazy when all my friends do nothing but worship discord.

      • Gerudo@lemm.ee
        131·
        3 days ago

        Not at all. I loathe discord with a passion. I can’t understand how such a unintuitive piece of software gained such mainstream acceptance.

        • Redex@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 days ago

          What do you find unintuitive? Of all the complaints I personally never found it unintuitive to use.

          • Gerudo@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 days ago

            Everything? It’s hard to describe, but anytime I want to do anything, it just seems like the menu is in the wrong spot, or I have to jump through hoops to do what needs to get done.

            • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              11·
              2 days ago

              That would be from the 8 redesigns they’ve done in the past year or so. Not going to praise the dumpster fire, but intuitiveness has not been an issue for most of discords common uses. If you were incessantly messing with settings of a server though, that’d track.

              • Gerudo@lemm.ee
                2·
                2 days ago

                Oh, this is day one, I have loaded it up like once in the last year. I’m not the only one who says it either. Back in the day on reddit, I’d post about it and would always have tons of people agree.

                I can deal with Gimp and all kinds of alt versions of popular software all day long with minimal hassle learning new UI. Discord, for being the most popular software of its platform, for some reason, just doesn’t click for me. Why ventrillo didn’t keep the crown amazes me.

                I’ll just go back to being the old man yelling at the clouds.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
        74·
        3 days ago

        I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.

        Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use it to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.

        Oh well, maybe I’m old.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          My understanding is that the core appeal is that they provide free private VoIP service, which was something that a lot of people wanted for multiplayer games.

          I don’t use that, and like you, I have not been very impressed with their chat stuff.

        • xylol@leminal.space
          4·
          3 days ago

          I’ve never really seen that much color on it, but I use dark mode so its basically just dark gray and white font, we transitioned from slack a few years ago when I joined a community for drone stuff but over time people stopped flying drones and played games more