Since Discord is getting worse and recently added another dark pattern ("Discord Birthday" crap, that always shows a red "1" just to annoy my OCDs) and did not have a good data protection policy anyway, I might take a look at this one. Hoping it will be a good replacement. But then I will have to deal with even worse network effect than back then, when I switched from Skype to Discord.
Discord keeps adding new crap and I always have to update my usercss to hide that crap. I mostly use it from a browser, so it's easy to run custom css/scripts, but the official client can be patched with e.g. OpenAsar[1].
A short (incomplete) list of my git history from the past 1 year:
- May 15 2023 Remove activities ("Discord Birthday" ;))
- May 1 2023 Remove nitro super reaction
- Apr 9 2023 Remove nitro ads
- Dec 22 2022 Remove new features popup
- Dec 22 2022 Remove snows giving seasonal event
- Sep 5 2022 Remove floating unread indicator
- Aug 31 2022 Remove new member badge
I would like to use it in the browser, sandboxing alone is reason enough. However, I had some issues with bad voice quality, when I was using it in the browser and apparently it annoyed people too much. Not sure why it has a problem with voice in the browser. Maybe I should try again.
