If it works just the same, why would they just outright delete the UI most of us like? There’s no good reason not to have options.
not saying that i don’t hate the UI changes with my entire being, but there is absolutely a good reason to not keep the old one. that would mean that discord would have to support two entirely different codebases that would both have to be modified independently whenever they wanted to e.g. add a new feature
Honestly I like the new UI. Takes a bit of getting used to after knowing the old one for so long but it makes more sense in the end.
The channel switcher, one of my most frequently used features, is now hidden away on top of the channel list instead of a prominent place in the middle of the bottom bar of the swipe-right menu. Going from a DM conversation to a specific channel, instead of “swipe right, tap channel switcher” (so I can type 3 letters of the channel name and switch to it) became “swipe left, tap ‘servers’ twice, tap the search box”. I like most of the other changes, but this really irks me and makes my mobile discording much less efficient :(
Make sure you use an open source tool to download any important conversation or channel history.
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
You’ll have to use the browser version of Discord to grab your unique Token since they’ve disabled the inspector console on the application and also removed the ability to turn it back on in the ini file. Don’t ever share it with anybody, either.
How come we need to dl the history? Are they deleting old messages with this update?
I’m gonna preface this with I haven’t used discord in a year or so.
It’s kinda fun watching a new generation go through their first redesign outrage.
Youtube should still have the description over there👉. Putting it down there 👇 will always suck
I use theatre mode so I don’t care about that, but I remember back when you could customize YT Channel background art and set colors and transparency values, cool times.
This app is awful now. There was literally nothing wrong about the old UI. They went and messed it all up.
Didn’t even know it changed until I saw this thread. Opened it up, saw that chats and servers are sensibly separated and on the bottom now where they’re easy to reach with a thumb. Also way easier to reply to messages now that the swipe doesn’t show who’s online (to see who’s online, tap the channel name at the top of the screen).
I like it.
I really don’t like this update. Dark mode is now a different, darker color which I’m not too fond of. My muscle memory is completely useless. Viewing server members is now all the way up at the top instead of being conveniently behind a swipe. Swiping between tabs is weird (it’s not really swiping between tabs, it’s more like the back button Android already has, so it’s redundant). The activities menu at the top is a waste of space. The search function is harder to use now, you have to click a little button at the top to filter your search results. Chat pins also don’t show image, links, or file previews now. Plus, Discord Mobile and desktop shared a similar user experience, so anyone could just pick up from the desktop version and be able to figure it out very quickly, now you can’t do that anymore. So much functionality and convenience just completely gone now. This might be the worst update I’ve ever seen for a messaging app, and it’s not even close.
My biggest problem is that searches don’t fucking work anymore. It now defaults to searching the channel you’re in, but what if I’m look for a particular message and I don’t know what channel it’s in? Then there’s also searching PMs is so much more complicated now and doesn’t even show you who sent the message in the results.
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.
