I feel like it’s been shitty for a decade… personal view though, clearly people like it
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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it’s gonna get real shitty, real fast.
SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The UI/UX has always been absolutely atrocious.
SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Yess, thank you. Ugly, slow, frustrating. And pay to make it bearable…
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Hold on, I’ve got 6 updates since you opened me an hour ago.
You can wait right?
Gerudo@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
It is the LEAST intuitive UI of any popular app I’ve ever seen. I was recently trying to join a channel from a website that required a code to input, and absolutely couldn’t get it to work.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
It isn’t even a decade old… anyway, it got market share for a reason. It was immediately a big step up from other free offerings in ease of use, UI, and eventually in features too.
Ulrich@feddit.org 15 hours ago
From a functional perspective it’s fantastic but it doesn’t make up for the incessant ads (even if you pay) and the lack of any privacy whatsoever.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 25 minutes ago
Are you talking about the ads for nitro?
Ulrich@feddit.org 16 minutes ago
I don’t even remember exactly what they were for, but yes, that’s one of them.
drspod@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
clearly people like it
It’s the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.
mlg@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Google Maps
Psythik@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
We already have TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and I think IRC is still a thing?
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Matrix for chatting, when we need voice chat we use ts3. Been using it for so long now, I don’t understand the problem why people dont use it
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
You can integrate Jitsi to your Matrix too. If you have a client that supports it, you get both chat and voice in the same place.
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
We need fast voice chat though, i play tournaments for cs2 and apex legends. Haven’t tested jitsi speed yet vs ts3 or mumble, which was the main reason we never used discord to start with
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
I must admit I’ve never reamly benchmarked any voice chat application. One advantage Jitsi does have is the ability to do p2p calls, saving a couple dozen milliseconds of transfer time compared to going through the server. But how fast is the software itself? No clue.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
Revolt?
firebyte@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s open source too.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Oh wow, it can get shittier?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You’ve got upper management written all over you.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Close, used to compile all the high level analytics and projection reports for all the Vice Presidents and Board Members, but they didn’t even notice when I corrected a massive category of double counted revenue within a month of taking over from the person whose position I was taking over.
After a year of being absurdly overworked, doing the job of half of the IT department for them, so that I could actually access the data I needed, being hilariously underpaid, and becoming far, far too well versed in passive aggressive, buzzword heavy, actionable information empty, corpospeak…
I left for greener pastures.
Mac@mander.xyz 19 hours ago
I already left, enjoy it for me.
catloaf@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
vinyl@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Matrix is still pretty jank
lennee@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
teamspeak are also stepping up their game ive heard
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
The comeback. I paid for a teamsorak server when I was a teen and used it extensively with friends for many years. As I got older I have only used discord a handful of times to talk to other people already on that platform. Discord has always sucked Imo, if it’s free you’re the product. That’s how it always has been.
I hope it gets even more shit so people will leave the platform.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Yep lol, golden parachute deployed!
… For the pilot.
Passengers are still in the plane, lunch cart just came around!