One of the biggest downsides is visible. The color changes make the app unusable for some people and my fiancé had to stop entirely because it gave them a headache every time they tried it no matter what theme they used.
The new update doesn’t care about people with accessibility concerns. My fiancé can’t use the official app at all because they changed the contrast to make it impossible to read no matter the theme. The best they can do is 3-5 minutes looking at the official app before they get a headache and have to stop using their phone.
This update is actively harming its users with no options to undo it.
The default themes (both light and dark mode) are low contrast. I don’t know why anyone would have gray text in light mode but they managed to mess that up.
One of my favorite things about discord was the fact that your experience was similar on both mobile and desktop. I honestly thought it was fantastic from a UX perspective since your knowledge of the app transferred easily between platforms. The new update destroys that and tosses out a large amount of shared knowledge.
Another, more important, complaint is the changes to the colors/themes makes the accessibility significantly worse no matter what theme you use for anyone with eye issues. They changed the light mode font to gray??? They reduced the contrast on the other modes significantly making it genuinely difficult to read text on a MESSAGING APP.
To me this whole thing, and the earlier username changes, feel like changing for the sake of changing rather than actually improving anything. This is just for the shareholders and not because literally anyone asked for it.
Also why is dms it’s own tab I really liked that they were listed next to the servers!
It annoys me to no extent when there’s something I could do in 5 seconds on the desktop version of an app but I can’t find it on the mobile version because they hid things. Microsoft is soooo annoying with this (and many other things because fuck them)! Every version of each of their apps on every platform is an entirely different program with the same name that barely even does the same functions.
As for the text, this is a problem they could’ve solved! And instead they made it worse while also making the UX worse! Every update from discord recently has made the app more and more buggy and slow. I genuinely don’t understand how they manage it.
A big big problem is accessibility. The new themes are all worse for the eyes than the previous ones and there’s been complaints of vision issues. My fiancé had to install a third party discord client because the actual discord one makes their head spin on every theme.
Also on a more personal note, I really hate that the dms are separated from the servers. My favorite aspect of discord is that knowledge transfers between platforms. It feels like I’m using discord and not discord mobile and then also discord desktop. Now it’s all fucky and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to even see who was in the server (it’s in the top left, the area furthest from the average person’s reach).
It’s also apparently really buggy and noticeably slower. Earlier I sent a pic into a server and it just silently sent to my most recent DM instead. After a search I found I’m not the only one that had.this happen either.
Idk if I would really call it any of those. Characters in it are those but the episode itself was constantly showcasing that these things are bad. One thing I especially liked was the parts where they had to learn how women move since practicing being a specific gender is a real thing trans people do and deal with.
Throughout the episode multiple characters are being shown being misogynistic, transphobic and so on… But then being that is now shown as good it’s being actively shown as part of the problem with the ferengi that they are trying to solve.
I haven’t yet finished DSC yet but I highly disagree with that last bit. Every single Star Trek has been “Star Trek but…” They all do it very differently and that’s what makes each one so incredibly interesting to watch as a group instead of just 1 long series. From what I’ve seen of DSC it’s basically just “Star Trek but… It focuses on the characters” similarly to DS9 in that way.
A lot of great SciFi stories are just characters talking but it’s in space… That’s most Asimov stories actually… so DSC is definitely sci-fi and very much so sci-fi.
Then you look at the temperature and think eh…45 isn’t that bad. We’ll survive. That will be the moment the wind whips up and sleet starts hitting you in the face.
Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.
I’d argue that you have to be horrible already to have loads of money. Any reasonably good person would be using their excess wealth for a good cause rather than building ego rockets.
This works fine but the main reason I personally have premium is to support the YouTubers I watch. Adblock gets rid of their revenue while premium pays them MORE than just ads do and now I don’t have to worry about it on any platform.
It started out by just trying to get McDonald’s and burger King to fight and turned into a “barn style painting” with fire, brimstone, and flying gold fish.
I just asked Bings chat thing to continually add to the image until this was the end result. I’m pretty sure Bing uses Dall-E and lists the prompt somewhere. I’m going to check if it tells you the prompt it uses and edit here if I find it.
Edit: here’s the prompt
The world’s fanciest McDonald’s next to the world’s fanciest Burger King, depicted in a farm painting style with fire, brimstone, and flying goldfish in the sky
Companies don’t need to run servers for old games nobody plays but it is a crime against art and the people who worked on and enjoyed any of that material. All of the wonderful content made specifically for these games is just dead now while the company could’ve just released a way to self host the game. There is NO reason any game ever should die and any excuse otherwise is just feeding into the pockets of companies that want to kill history.
I think so but you do need to set it up with your steam account and connect all that which is a bit of set up. Once you have it up though you can connect all of your launchers to it and then just have everything in one spot. I use it mostly for my GOG, Steam and Game Pass games.
195 was a social experiment on Reddit with the only rule being you have to post before you go. Originally done as a college project the subreddit was shut down when the creators graduated. 196 grew from the grave of 195 with the same rules. Eventually reddit did a fuck up tho and 196 moved here.
What the rule is this ad (lemmy.world)
I love piped bot (lemmy.ml)
Anglo rule (i.imgur.com)
My honest rule (lemmy.world)
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venture capitalism goes brrr (feddit.de)
Discord UI rule (lemmy.world)
Can someone open this pickle jar? (lemmy.world)
Garashir is Canon (in the lower decks Mobile game at least) (lemmy.world)
Top comment decides next move, legal or not | day 68: The last save is reloaded (day 6) (i.postimg.cc)
Original title:...
Top comment decides next move, legal or not | day 67: The entire game is deleted (i.postimg.cc)
I hope you had a backup!
Where's my cooking show already? (startrek.website)
No Lists Rule (sh.itjust.works)
McRule (lemmy.world)
This exists now apparently
How is this not the worst episode of DS9? (lemmy.world)
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The remake we all need (lemmy.world)
Phasers set to "Bitch please" (startrek.website)
eat the rich (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It’s a meme
The soul of wit (sopuli.xyz)
Let's talk time travel
I just finished watching ‘Bodies’ and we have to agree on one thing:...
Thanks for the sub Bigpeepeeboy2002 (lemmy.world)
I'm into resting (lemmy.world)
A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) (startrek.website)
Every year without fail. Beautiful, perfect weather then suddenly on Halloween…miserable cold snap (Degrees in F) (lemmy.world)
Then you look at the temperature and think eh…45 isn’t that bad. We’ll survive. That will be the moment the wind whips up and sleet starts hitting you in the face.
Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia (www.theguardian.com)
Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.
Lemmy users when I mention I pay for Youtube Premium (startrek.website)
Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.
I just kept typing things into an AI until I got this rule (lemmy.world)
Linux gaming is fun (lemmy.one)
Everyone just loves untested forced updates. /s
Video Game Actors Vote ‘Yes’ on a Strike Authorization (gizmodo.com)
What are some apps that are very very slow for no reason?
I already see the electron apps coming!
thanks for 950 responses rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
thanks for the input on the last post, next time i’ll make an actually interpretable one in like a year or something, or next time reddit fucks up