One of my favorite things about discord was the fact that your experience was similar on both mobile and desktop. I honestly thought it was fantastic from a UX perspective since your knowledge of the app transferred easily between platforms. The new update destroys that and tosses out a large amount of shared knowledge.

Another, more important, complaint is the changes to the colors/themes makes the accessibility significantly worse no matter what theme you use for anyone with eye issues. They changed the light mode font to gray???? They reduced the contrast on the other modes significantly making it genuinely difficult to read text on a MESSAGING APP.

To me this whole thing, and the earlier username changes, feel like changing for the sake of changing rather than actually improving anything. This is just for the shareholders and not because literally anyone asked for it.

Also why is dms it's own tab I really liked that they were listed next to the servers!

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Mobile apps aren't supposed to work like desktop ones tho.

text is already impossible to read for me due to the font. idk every time i try to switch to the new react native version i go back because text takes me like 4-6 attempts to read.

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

It annoys me to no extent when there's something I could do in 5 seconds on the desktop version of an app but I can't find it on the mobile version because they hid things. Microsoft is soooo annoying with this (and many other things because fuck them)! Every version of each of their apps on every platform is an entirely different program with the same name that barely even does the same functions.

As for the text, this is a problem they could've solved! And instead they made it worse while also making the UX worse! Every update from discord recently has made the app more and more buggy and slow. I genuinely don't understand how they manage it.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Seems very ok, did not give me any strong opinions after a minute.

Update:
Did they get rid of the server user list?

[–] notabotactually@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have to click on the channel name now

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nooo, the muscle memory.

[–] MellowSnow@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that's one of my big complaints about the new UI. Otherwise, I don't have many huge issues with it so far. The beta they tried earlier this year was terrible, but at least they ditched the horrible server page that one had and kept the server/channels sidebar in this new update. That was the main thing that would've made it a dealbreaker for me.