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Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux


Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

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in reply to Blisterexe

And yes, vesktop did it first, but discord's version is quite a bit more polished
in reply to Blisterexe

Vesktop still allows you to choose a single audio output, Discord's implementation seems to share system audio of all running apps, and doesn't let you choose the specific application.
in reply to t҉̠̙ǵ̣̞̄ͪ͜x̸̱͚̳ͫ͐̑̈ͯͣ̚n̒͌҉͉̦̜̝ͅ

As far as I'm aware, Vesktop also allows you to share at 60fps, not just at 720, but up to 1440 at no charge. Can't wait for Vesktop to continue being ahead of the curve
in reply to Eyck_of_denesle

I think the discord server they're in might be nitro boosted to allow all users to share at higher resolutions and frame rates. I think the perk affects all users whether they have Nitro or not.
in reply to chingadera

Can confirm! I screen share all the tile and I take advantage of this. Love Vesktop ✨
in reply to Blisterexe

I like their UX, the button doesn't say "Share screen" but "Make Selection". On Element my dad every time has such a hard time to share the screen because even though he did it already a hundred times, he presses the share screen button and then waits, without choosing which window or screen to share.
in reply to Jeena

you first click the "share screen" button, then it asks if you want to share a device, screen or window, then it shows you that screen, that summons a permission prompt tailored to what you selected recently.

I agree it's quite nice

in reply to Blisterexe

Oh sweet jesus, it's finally happening! Huzzah! Rejoice!
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in reply to Blisterexe

Does that works for Wayland or X? or both?
Quite nice feature indeed.
in reply to simonced

both, i mentioned that in the body text
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in reply to Blisterexe

You didn't mention it works for both, just Wayland.
Good to know it works on X, as well.
in reply to Blisterexe

What about audio sharing?
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in reply to Mereo

Audio sharing works, but appears to not allow selection of a specific audio stream, when I tested it just then it appears to share system audio. Vesktop still allows you to choose a specific stream.
Still, this is a huge improvement over not working at all, and the "Entire Desktop" (3 screens) works, as well as "select region" sharing!
in reply to Blisterexe

I was almost convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it's been broken so long. Like, years long.

It was broken so long I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken. With steam working so well on Linux now, broken discord streaming without actual working audio share was one of the last things that posed a hurdle for gamers ditching Windows.

(In the meantime, thank you Vesktop for your service ❤)

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in reply to tiramichu

convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it's been broken so long. Like, years long.


Heh. There's a ticket with Splunk. It's a simple request: do the 30 sec of work to let us install your software rpm from a proper yum repo.

They can't figure out how.

They won't ask.

It's 12 years old now.

The ticket for them to do a trivial exercise with tools twice as old, is now a tween. It can ride the bus on its own. I think it can get a Facebook account. Maybe.

We should get one for it.

in reply to corsicanguppy

Is there really? Long time splunk admin, I would love to see this
in reply to corsicanguppy

It was the same with Zoom but AFAIK they're finally working on it now.
in reply to dan

who in their sane mind uses zoom on their private device. holy molly
in reply to dino

I'm using it on my work PC, since it's what we use for meetings.
in reply to dan

The Zoom flatpak works fine. Haven't tried native.
in reply to finder

I had weird issues with the Flatpak (can't remember what they were) but the native RPM worked fine. Previously you had to download and install/update the RPM manually but I've heard they're working on proper RPM and deb repos.
in reply to dan

That's good! Options don't hurt imo, as long as they're properly maintained.
in reply to tiramichu

I saw something from a discord dev (can't find it, so grain of salt) about how there was interest recently to do it, but they'd have to work on other stuff that affected everyone first, and they'd probably get it done by q4 2024, guess they were right.

I think before then the whole linux graphics and audio space hadn't really stabilized enough for them to be interested.

in reply to tiramichu

Screen sharing infrastructure (for Wayland) in Linux was still in development recently. Maybe they just wanted to be able to use newer APIs?
in reply to blobjim [he/him]

The screen casting portal is 6 years old. 6 years is not recent...
in reply to Zamundaaa

Just being supported as a protocol doesn't mean everything is done. Chromium probably didn't have it until years after that, and operating systems may not have implemented it umtil more recently.
in reply to blobjim [he/him]

in reply to tiramichu

It was 100% because the existing Electron version they were using was ancient, a giant pain in the ass to update, and represents exactly zero revenue for them so they hadn't bothered putting anyone on fixing it. Every tech company has the ticking time bomb in the corner like that.
in reply to tiramichu

It was broken so long I honestly wouldn’t have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken.


Tech companies are fully capable of being lazy for free. Fixing this takes dev time from other work that brings Discord money so doing this costs them, especially considering that Linux userbase must be rather tiny. 99% of software companies don't give a shit about making quality product and will always try their hardest to do as little work as possible while making as much money as possible. If fixing a bug will cost them more than potential profits from making it work then they won't fix it.

in reply to deadcream

You're right of course, it's definitely down to simple lack of incentive, rather than some kind of conspiracy. But the conspiracy was a fun shower thought! :)
in reply to tiramichu

You give them too much credit. It's just shitty, that's it.

Discord is pretty much broken on all platform. It always was. There's just no real alternative unfortunately.

in reply to dino

I'm all for it tho I have no idea how to grab the folk's attention
in reply to kuneho

We would have to sit down and actually think what an opensource solution can achieve and how it gets traction. Also from the get go it should be clear that there will be no feature parity between it and discord. If it was me, I would cut out the whole chatroom functionality, leave private messaging in, use threaded conversations as a standard and but a decent videocall system on top. But this would be my version of it, other people have other needs.

For the video call system you would not have to reinvent the wheel, use something existing like Jitsi (?) or alternatives. Then you would

Maybe the best bet is to look at matrix and wrench out the chatroom focus and replace it with threads?

in reply to dino

why cut chatroom functionality? Servers are the main reason people use discord?
in reply to Blisterexe

Not in my bubble, chats create insurmountable loads of noise. By focusing on threads you get the discussion much more focused and streamlined. Example:
Most of my discords are ttrpg related, where with the usage of bots games are scheduled. Or where discussion are happening around certain ttrpg systems.

I agree that a lot of discord servers focus on chat rooms. But you could retain that by simply having 1-2 chatrooms per server and structure/direct conversations to dedicated threads/voice chats instead.

Again this is just MY view. I am totally aware that other people, use it differently.

in reply to dino

that's a totally fair view, and the people at matrix seem to agree because it has threading, seems to be the kind you like, too
in reply to Blisterexe

No, matrix is still very focused on chat room sadly and for the video conferencing you need to use jitsi as far as I am aware, at least thats how we've set it up at work. The thread function in discord is much better actually.
in reply to dino

huh, ive used both, how is the discord implementation better? They seem the same to me.
in reply to Blisterexe

I mean I am not sure, but in matrix you can just "reply" to a comment in a chat room and therefore create a thread? In discord you can have whole "chatrooms" be transfered to discussion only with threads. I am not sure about the terminology but it looks very different to me. Basically, you can set Discord up like a community board etc.
in reply to dino

ooh, you're talking about that, i see. Yeah matrix doesnt have that
in reply to dino

oh, also matrix just added proper e2ee video conferencing that doesnt use jitsi, its a native feature
in reply to dino

best alternative would be a forum + voice calls + dms IMO
in reply to dino

There is an alternative people have used before discord came, it is called teamspeak. Is still around as well, but works more like a federated system since everyone has to set up and host their own server for people to use.
in reply to GregorGizeh

Teamspeak is no alternative to discord. Sorry. Also its not even open source, is it?
in reply to dino

Discord isnt open source either tho so how does that matter for the comparison?

And while yes it is a little outdated, I do recall the time before discord when people would have their own teamspeak server instead, which worked very similar to the fediverse.

You had the client and could connect to any server you had the credentials to, which each were owned and hosted by various people or groups each with their own rules and code of conduct.

in reply to dino

If Twitter is any indication, Discord would have to fuck up big, and for a long time for people to switch.
in reply to lorty

I agree, but working on an alternative an cultivating it could be a good start. Look at mastodon or lemmy.
in reply to kuneho

"Don't attribute to malice what is explained by incompetence"
in reply to tiramichu

I like how Vesktop updates in the background. Discord proper has to close, download the .deb, install, and relaunch.
in reply to Blisterexe

Oh my fuck, finally. Good lord Discord, only took you eons to get that working with Wayland after you broke it.

I get that there's other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.

in reply to Flatfire

I get that there’s other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.


There's plenty of free alternatives that works much better than discord

matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

in reply to index

Not if I want calling, video chat, screen sharing and role based chat rooms all in the same place. I've explored this, but it just isn't feature complete enough at the moment. I'd definitely describe myself as a Discord power user and Matrix just doesn't manage it.
in reply to Flatfire

Calls and video chats works just fine in matrix and client like element allow you to integrate other services if you don't like the default ones.

I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user


You sound a lot like someone who use windows. We are on a linux sub.

in reply to index

I am a Linux user. Bizarre assumption to make given my excitement over a Wayland specific Discord feature. But I don't have any actual qualms with how Discord implements its own services. Matrix just doesn't fit the bill for me. If you enjoy it, and it suits your needs then all the power to you. It just isn't what works for me.
in reply to index

Matrix does not have the features of Discord. It's far closer to a Telegram alternative. It doesn't even have voice channels, a very basic requirement for a Discord alternative.
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in reply to Blisterexe

Finally. I had it working after a bunch of workarounds recently, but it was not really stable.

Always remember, this is what we all deserve for using closed source apps.

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in reply to Blisterexe

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch


I've been using the canary branch exclusively for about a year because of audio issues on the main one, I would genuinely be ecstatic if they finally ported over the fix because for some reason the canary branch refuses to auto upgrade and I have to do it manually every time.

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you might be interested in matrix, it's like discord, but you have the option of using a super lightwheight client
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that's totally fine, no need to apologize, i tend to stay out of public matrix rooms too, too much toxicity
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Do you really talk to your friends through email?
in reply to Blisterexe

Did they also finally fix the AFK detection on Wayland?
in reply to sanpo

I'm not sure if this is actually possible - as far as I know, applications can't track key presses/mouse movement when their associated window isn't in focus. It'd be great if they just gave the option to disable the AFK detection since it doesn't work...
in reply to Russ

What happens now in afk detection? I never noticed it.
in reply to Eyck_of_denesle

Haven't used it in a while but from what I remember it always puts you in idle if you do something else and only back to online if you do something in Discord itself, as expected from the Wayland limitation.

It could be implemented with the ext-idle-notify-v1 protocol.

in reply to miss phant

In my case it refused to ever mark me as idle, which meant I never got any notifications on mobile...
in reply to Russ

Works fine with a plugin, so clearly it can't be that hard.
in reply to sanpo

Ah, I thought this was in regards to AFK tracking when discord isn't focused (which this plugin still won't fix due to the mentioned Wayland restrictions) - I didn't realize that it still didn't work even when discord was focused, which is strange.

I've been using Vesktop since screen share wasn't working on Wayland, and it already seems to do what this plugin does hence my confusion.

in reply to Blisterexe

now fix push to talk which is arguable far more important
in reply to unique_hemp

Is there an actual implementation of this for Electron yet? Also, do you know any apps that use these yet? I haven't found any.
in reply to priapus

Apparently Chromium has merged support for it, so it should get to Electron soon-ish: chromium-review.googlesource.c…
in reply to Derin

I am using Vesktop, too. Why do you want to get rid of it?
in reply to dingleberrylover

It's not an official client, and non-official clients are against the ToS.

Discord's been nice about them so far, but at some point someone in or above that company is going to demand they start making a profit, and when that happens the amnesty custom clients are currently unofficially receiving will disappear.

Hopefully I can convince people to use Mumble with me 😂

in reply to Blisterexe

Too late for those Nimrods.
Just use vencord or something that worked for ages.
in reply to Blisterexe

Except for the postmarketOS ones, they are very cool and non-toxic.
in reply to Blisterexe

Sorry but I don't really care about discord news on Linux...
in reply to foremanguy

Me too, yet we click and decided to reply.^^

I'm happy for others, plus it makes life easier for those who expect a working Discord like on Windows.

in reply to thingsiplay

Absolutely okay but we shouldn't be specially happy of discord being well integrated in Linux. The only good point is that it helps to grow the reach of Linux to mainstream users
in reply to foremanguy

Right on! People should only share news articles that pertain to my interests.
in reply to flux

Discord is related to linux as much as the facebook app is.
in reply to index

It's related because it's news about discord changing something related to linux
in reply to index

Well, except perhaps for the fact that Discord has a Linux version, while the Facebook App doesn't.

And—clearly!—it seems rather popular as well.

in reply to index

Okay, great, now convince 30+ other people I chat with on the service

Yes I know it sucks and will just keep on enshittifying, but it's not so much as it being a replaceable social media for me, as it is a primary way for me to keep in contact with partners, friends, finding out about and participating in arrangements, and meeting new people in my local area. Stopping using discord is effectively cutting myself off from the local communities

Everyone in my social circle uses it, and will keep on using it. Maybe once some breaking point is reached due to ever increasing enshittification people will start being interested in alternatives, but we're far from that point still

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in reply to index

I can't even get them to use mastodon or Lemmy, they're not gonna go to an alternative discord
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in reply to SkyeStarfall

and matrix doesnt have a functional voice call across clients atm
in reply to SkyeStarfall

Discord is not as good and accessible as you may think. Most matrix homeservers aren't going to ask you for phone verification, some don't even require a mail. You can always join yourself and find other friends there.
in reply to foremanguy

Ah yes, the old "I care so little that I had to tell you".
in reply to Blisterexe

Just installed Canary on my system to test this, and while it's a little janky and the hardware acceleration seems to stop other apps using the GPU at the same time this is still good enough I think I can finally move to Linux as my main OS. I assume this will get polished further in the future. Great stuff though.
in reply to jonesy

THIS prevented you from switching?

Afaik screenshare always worked when using Discord in a browser

in reply to boredsquirrel

Pretty much! Never saw anything that said the browser client worked on Linux, but last time I tried the discord browser client it was pretty rubbish as well.
in reply to jonesy

As someone who only occasionally uses Discord, I honestly didn't even know they had a desktop version of their app. I've always used it in the browser. Why do they even have a desktop version of their webapp?
in reply to flubba86

The desktop version uses Electron, a shitty Chromium + Node.js framework for devs that really only want javascript and web tech
in reply to flubba86

Integration at a level a browser can't offer. Most importantly, imo, a browser can't bind global keyboard shortcuts for websites. So push to talk, mute keybinds, ... don't work in the browser version.
in reply to jonesy

There is another, semi official linux client called vesktop. Comes with a range of plugin options, all improving or enabling functions the default client doesnt offer or hides behind a paywall. It also has had screen share on Linux for the longest time,if you do the switch give it a go. Certainly better than the default app
in reply to GregorGizeh

Except push to talk doesn't work in Vesktop/Vencord sadly.
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in reply to Zetta

Getting good enough noise cancelling and mic detection working is only almost decent on the official app.

I've never had a problem with low bitrate or anything related to that.

in reply to devfuuu

Vesktop supports the same mic detection and krisp noise suppression as the desktop client
in reply to devfuuu

I was more just shitting on Discord to shit on Discord because you can have insane bitrates on clients such as TeamSpeak, which I would prefer everyone use.
in reply to Nilz

Or any global shortcuts (i.e. to mute oneself) for that matter. Pretty useless in a gaming context because of that imho
in reply to GregorGizeh

they also offer vencord, that patched the official client to offer those features
in reply to branch

The founder's shady history with OpenFeint, their entire privacy policy and shit like this, take your pick. Wikipedia also has an entire section dedicated to Discord's controversies. No matter how you look at it, Discord has a great many shortcomings.
in reply to index

These articles are very old and not super relevant any more. Sources of 2018 and 2019, while a lot has changed over the years.

I'm not here to "defend" Discord and pretend it's all gravy, but if you want to make a compelling argument, I think it's a good idea to stick to current, factual information.

in reply to .Donuts

These articles are very old and not super relevant any more. Sources of 2018 and 2019, while a lot has changed over the years.


Did you even read them? They changed for worst all the points remain.

in reply to index

Which got worse? Feel free to show me an example. I'll try to investigate and find out its merits.

It must be said that that site also considers browsers like Firefox and Vivaldi to be at a high level of being spyware. I think it's important to understand that Discord doesn't do things much differently than other platforms, other than not having any 3rd party ads.

in reply to .Donuts

You sound exactly like a bad actor. If you open and read the website you would know why Firefox it's listed

cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-wh…

in reply to index

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in reply to .Donuts

You are here on lemmy on a linux sub trying to defend a proprietary company who makes billions stealing kids data. Take a break and think about what you are doing with your life.

drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Don…

in reply to index

Did you actually read anything or are you just set to rage mode?

However, you shouldn’t take my experience as representative


And then your blogger proceeds to use it as a cited source, my goodness.

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in reply to meliaesc

Did you actually read anything or are you just set to rage mode?


Yes, did you? They are trying to claim something as stupid as that discord doesn't sell your data.

in reply to index

Burden of proof is on you, to show an instance of Discord going against its ToS and selling data.

Only thing I could find: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… where are 3rd party bot might scrape data to then sell... which is an issue even for lemmy?

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in reply to index

There are plenty of legit things to get upset about. Malicious bots, prolific scams, CSAM, customer support having an abysmal rep, and that's not even talking about how foundationally incompatible Discord is with FOSS.

So no, I'm not here to defend a proprietary company. I'm here to address the pointless fear mongering that distracts from the real issues.

in reply to branch

Centralized social media. Poison of the masses. If they control the pullpit, they control the congregation. Tale as old as time.
in reply to GHiLA

It’s reach not centralization

You’d think Lemmy would’ve taught you that by now

in reply to Blisterexe

I wouldn’t say discord is either of those things

They need to limit server sizes, get rid of community searching, and add #XXXX to the end of usernames before we can pretend that

in reply to ILikeBoobies

Wouldn't limiting server sizes and getting rid of community searching be removing features? Why would anyone want that?

And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.

in reply to Tattorack

Why would anyone want that?


1 they aren’t pedos

2 they want an app to talk to their friends with

3 they don’t want to be victims of misinformation campaigns

And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.


Yeah it was better, it meant if you were being stalked you could just have the numbers changed. Now you need a completely different alias with the only purpose to be discouraging victims from getting help

in reply to ILikeBoobies

1- What does that have to do with anything?

2- Then make a private server for just your friends.

3- Then make a private server for just your friends.

And no, it wasn't better. Just... different.

in reply to Tattorack

  1. The people that want the public servers/control of a bunch of kids are pedos

2/3 opposite of above: the people who would join public servers are too young to know not to

in reply to ILikeBoobies

It's rather odd you think discord is full of children... And that there aren't verification processes in place.

You're creating a problem with Discord that doesn't exist, or at least, not in any way that's unique to discord.

in reply to a Kendrick fan

I so wish there was matrix protocol for voice rooms and a good reference implementation but sadly there are neither
in reply to Mactan

How long has it been since you used element/matrix? Serious question because the new element call stack is now finally released in element stable, as of a few patches ago. (It still only shows up as the "video rooms" feature that u have to enable in the labs/beta settings)

Its much cleaner than before and properly supports screensharing, adjusting individual user volumes and more. The previous jitsi based voice rooms were somewhat lacking i admit but they have been functional for years.

That was the last thing that kind of kept me from fully endorsing matrix but now it does all that really important stuff. The new mobile ElementX client also supports the new call system but its overall lacking compared to the normal mobile client which does not support it.

But for desktop use i dont have any complains anymore about matrix really.

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in reply to unexposedhazard

not that I dig into it very far but I check maybe once a year to find out if any of the features I want made it into matrix protocol yet and they always seem stalled
in reply to g1ya777

Revolt looks pretty good despite its lack of a large user base
in reply to flashgnash

No screen share and there seems to be a reluctance to add/address requests for it. They add that and I can get my whole community to switch. Until then it's not happening.
in reply to g1ya777

Zulip has been around for a loooong time. It integrates well with Jitsi, and is fully self-hostable.
in reply to Blisterexe

But still doesn't accept my legitimate phone number, which is mandatory now.
in reply to MonkderVierte

Only in servers that enabled that verification. Its a server setting
in reply to DacoTaco

Sent by me:

Dear Discord Privacy Team!

I'm writing to you to inform you that your platform (mobile, desktop, browser) can enforce the user to verify their account with a phone number, after the user has changed their E-Mail adress. This is a serios privacy problem! I'd like you to verify that you don't intend on providing other (more privacy friendly) means of account verification apart from providing the phone number. I suddenly cannot use my Discord account due to this and I object to providing a phone number.

Kind regards,
~sntx


Their answer:

Discord Privacy Team (Discord Support)

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Unfortunately, we aren't able to assist you here. This channel is reserved for privacy questions and requests.

It looks like this is a question for our Customer Support team. We recommend that you resubmit your request and choose the appropriate reporting option. You can do so here: [...].

In the meantime you can check out our Help Center for more info on everything Discord.

We appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,
Discord Privacy Team

in reply to sntx

But its a server setting to need phone verification. Im on a ton of servers and never provided them my phone number. One server changed access rights manually for my username because i refused to give discord my phone number when they enabled the verification requirement haha.
Also, their response is terrible haha
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in reply to DacoTaco

It isn't just a server thing. Discord can request a phone number from you if they think something unusual is happening. Trying to create an account while using tor will make them ask for a phone number, and they reject those numbers offered by shared number services.
in reply to Faresh

Fair enough, but then you are kinda asking for it if youre doing fishy shit. They need, and i do mean need, to somehow verify the actions being done are from a normal user and not a botnet or other fishy activity...
in reply to Blisterexe

Finally, Tho i dont use the desktop app anymore. (Hint electron)
in reply to mariusafa

they say they dont sell any user data, although i have my doubts about that
in reply to Blisterexe

It doesn't really matter if they do or don't. What matters is that they can change their TOS at any time, they keep an archive of all historical data, and you will have pretty much no recourse no matter what they decide to do with it in the future.

Who knows what will happen to Discord in five or ten years?

They might get bought by a narcissistic billionaire.

They might sell all their data to Google for training AI.

They might go bankrupt and sell off their assets to the highest bidder.

They might have an IPO and begin the usual value extraction at the expense of their users.

I know, I know...crazy ideas, right? When has anything like that ever happened?!

in reply to AnAmericanPotato

i think you're totally right, i just dont like people saying theyre doing it right now.

Frankly i think we should use matrix instead, but it just isnt good enough yet

in reply to Blisterexe

Yeah, Matrix is a very, very hard sell. I mean, "normal" people (for lack of a better term) are put off by Mastodon, and Matrix is a hundred times more complicated to join. I'm also not sure what it would look like to use Matrix the way I use Discord. Perhaps there is functionality in Element/Matrix I have never explored since I use it more for messaging and group chat, not for communities with multiple channels like IRC/Discord/Slack.

In any case, Discord is too entrenched to be replaced by something that is merely technically superior, or even more user-friendly. Realistically, you can't migrate entire communities if they're bigger than a tight-knit IRL friend group, and even that is hard. That seems to be the only reason X still exists.

in reply to refalo

Almost, yeah. Certainly the big corps.

This is why I strongly favor services that use end-to-end encryption or do not store history in the first place.

There are not many times when I've needed to search back through history on a Discord server, and every time I have I thought to myself "this would be much better on any platform besides Discord". Discord would, IMHO, be a better product if they did not retain history forever.

Ditto for Slack. Slack has the additional gall to limit access to that data unless you pay for a premium plan, despite the fact that they keep the data forever regardless (as evidenced by their occasional free trials which magically bring all history back, and some search tricks you can use to access old posts regardless).

Both Slack and Discord have lulled their user base into a false sense of privacy. Nothing you post there should be considered private.

in reply to Blisterexe

Vencord has had it forever. Just a community discord flathub.
in reply to bonus_crab

Yeah, I've been using Vesktop/Vencord all this time. Has more features than Discord with Nitro. No reason to really switch back to the official client.
in reply to bonus_crab

Third party discord clients keep letting me down, not updating their electron version and breaking my system updates cause it's marked insecure

Browser version with extensions is the way to go

in reply to flashgnash

Would you clue me in on what kind of extensions you use and why they're better that the discord app?
in reply to lilpatchy2eyes

Stylus for theming, vimium for navigation

It works a lot better than the discord app, more responsive for one. Ctrl k on the app takes a few seconds, takes half a second on web

Multiple instances at once without any hassle is nice, the ability to open links in the same window instead of having it open a browser somewhere (tiling wm with discord in a pop up layer)

Seems to be less resource intensive I assume because no electron wrapper running, just Firefox which I already have open anyway

Plus the main one is that because it's not using electron I don't have the constant drama with insecure electron versions, also if discord forces an update and your package manager doesn't update you just can't use discord for a few days until it catches up

in reply to bonus_crab

For some reason my screen share freezes for others on vesktop.
in reply to Blisterexe

I've been screen sharing from discord on hyprland for months, it wasn't already working?
in reply to flashgnash

Last I checked I could only share specific windows, not the whole screen. Later there was also an update with a window or screen selection dialogue that didn't work at all, I think. After that I stopped using it on wayland.
in reply to Faresh

I regularly share my whole screen

I have an issue with the dialog box popping up multiple times but that's it, still works

The only caveat is window specific sharing often doesn't work because of how Wayland works

in reply to flashgnash

i think it works for you because you have xwayland video bridge installed
in reply to Blisterexe

Oh awesome, I’ve been using the webcord version as the others were all shit for screen sharing. Having said that even webcord also has weird sound issue sim hoping are fixed with this.
in reply to Blisterexe

anyone get this to work on steam deck? hasn't worked for me yet.
in reply to JayDee

The version on flathub (what the steam deck uses for it's app store) has not been updated to support this quite yet.
in reply to Blisterexe

Looks like I’m checking daily if it’s on the steam deck yet…
in reply to TychoQuad

If you don't want to wait you can get the binary from discord.com/download.

or wait t'ill the most recent version here is 0.0.79 or higher

in reply to Blisterexe

Well thanks discord but you ruined my watch movie together night with my ex gf so.