Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah the app is bloated as shit

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• Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And somehow making the UI worse every single update. HOW?

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Taking lessons from Valve and steam, I suspect.

    I genuinely don’t understand how these companies go “Okay, we have a very elegant, simple, sleek, and fast interface here…Heres what we should do, we should completely fuck it up, make it slower, and make it require more resources for absolutely no reason”

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    • lambda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is this an old meme? They revamped their UI and I think it’s (Steam) very intuitive now. I do remember when they had like 10 different styles of drop-down box on the desktop app. But, I don’t see that now.

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      • ByGourou@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Main function are ok, sure, but Steam still is is inconsistant, the 40 different css for buttons is not just a meme.
        Same as discord it had a lot of feature creep over the years so it’s not easy to understand, but for me it’s worth giving up ease of use for theses features.

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    • verysoft@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It's just paycheck justification. "Look we did something, we are useful"

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• rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As long as they allow for free streaming and file sharing, they will need to monetize. That stuff gets real expensive real fast.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, it is a company that employs people that gives away its product for free. Aside from Nitro, would you like them to monetize your personal info and sell it to 3rd parties?

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