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by devman0 1302 days ago
Getting fined for the the system tray behavior is a little much, that's how all chat apps have behaved going all the way back to at least AIM (and Trillian, Pidgin, etc) and I'm assuming before then as well, and its good UX that's why it's been copied for so long. I'm actually annoyed that WhatsApp desktop doesn't have this feature.
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CuriousCosmic 1302 days ago
It's not specifically the close to tray issue:

> When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay logged into the voice room. However, in Microsoft Windows, clicking on the "X" at the top right of the last visible application window will exit the application for the vast majority of applications. > > DISCORD's behavior is different and may lead to users being heard by other members in the voice room when they thought they had left. The restricted committee considered that DISCORD should specifically inform users by making them aware that their words are still being transmitted and heard by others. > > However, as part of the procedure, DISCORD INC.set up a pop-up window to alert people connected to a voice room, when the window is closed for the first time, that the DISCORD application is still running and that this setting can be changed directly by the user.

Rather the issue was that you could close to tray while in a call without any prompt.

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CuriousCosmic 1301 days ago
Too late to edit this now but it appears I fumbled the quote so here it is again properly formatted.

When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay logged into the voice room. However, in Microsoft Windows, clicking on the "X" at the top right of the last visible application window will exit the application for the vast majority of applications.

DISCORD's behavior is different and may lead to users being heard by other members in the voice room when they thought they had left. The restricted committee considered that DISCORD should specifically inform users by making them aware that their words are still being transmitted and heard by others.

However, as part of the procedure, DISCORD INC.set up a pop-up window to alert people connected to a voice room, when the window is closed for the first time, that the DISCORD application is still running and that this setting can be changed directly by the user.

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