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by wearywanderer 1851 days ago
> Discord works perfectly fine as a simple webpage

It has a webapp, but it does not work "perfectly fine" in my experience. The UX is bewilderingly complex; it took me several minutes to figure out how to make it stop ringing more bells and whistles than a las vegas casino. I had a hard time even figuring out what symbols were meant to be buttons that get clicked; even finding the settings screen was a pain in the ass. It's truly awful.
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gerikson 1851 days ago
Out of curiosity, what IRC client do you use?
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wearywanderer 1851 days ago
Formerly xchat, now hexchat. I also leave weechat idling in a tmux session.

My take on discord is that it's been designed for the zoomer/gamer demographic; the sort of people who also get sucked in by gacha games. Lots of sounds and colors that leave the user dazed and intoxicated.

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