I dislike a couple things – swipe to reply in general, hiding the server member list within search, and the way they laid out the new tab that combined DMs and friends list. Making the friends list horizontal profile pictures to scroll through is just annoying. Other than that it’s fine.
Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Personally, I think the update is a genuine improvement. Everything is more intuitive, and labels for the UI was very much needed.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NoisyFlake@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah, it finally feels like a mobile app that you can use without having to know the layout of the desktop version first. A friend of mine that never used the desktop app really struggled with basic tasks on the old mobile app.
catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes, it finally makes some goddamn sense. It’s still awful, but I find it genuinely easier to find the things I want.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, same. I didn’t even touch the friends tab at all, so having it as DMs works better for my purposes. But Discord is trying to be the app for so many purposes I’m not surprised people are upset by a major UI change and having it be different to the desktop layout.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For yours, not others. That’s kind of the crux of the issue with most UI changes nowadays. They’re made for the “average user” and the average user has the most basic needs, utilizes few advanced options, and takes advantage of the least functions. And when your primary goal developing software is to serve that audience, you will end up inevitably prioritizing aesthetic over functionality. And every time you do that, your pissing off your power users a little more.
As with most issues with UI changes, they could be solved by giving the user options to customize their experience a bit, but the idea of customizable UI is verboten nowadays.