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Good app
Discord is a versatile communication platform that excels in fostering community and collaboration. Its combination of text, voice, and video chat features allows users to connect in various ways, whether through casual conversations or organized meetings. The app supports creating and managing multiple servers, which can be tailored with channels and roles to suit different interests or projects. Additionally, Discord integrates with various bots and tools to enhance functionality, making it a robust choice for gaming groups, study communities, or professional teams. Its user-friendly interface and strong focus on community-building make it an excellent choice for diverse communication needs. With these pros, though comes multiple flaws and downsides including latency problems, lack of more free servers, and voice chat system being flawed. With the latency issues, discord can be at times frustrating for its customers. Many times have I lagged while on call with companions. Further more, the calling and voice chat system has experienced multiple flaws throughout its history. Some of these include poor audio quality, lag in voices/ static voice, and the occasional kicking out of voice chats. Finally, the freedom of customers has been restrained by the devs ever since the beginning of this apps creation.Show lessPoppfartsmella69
Still missing needed features
Months after the UI update, many features are still missing. Swiping right to left in a chat to open the member list still is missing, and an experiment appears to show they want that to function as some kind of search, rather than be at parity with how discord works on desktop and mobile web. Compact mode doesn’t exist in the app, making tons of unused space and large profile icons, when on desktop and mobile web you can focus on whats important; the actual messages. There is no theme as far as i can tell that uses the same coloration as desktop and mobile web; instead of the iconic greys, theres light, black, and amoled black. The text input remains tiny with multiple unused buttons that could be folded into the “+” menu already on the bar. The ui has made some improvements, like servers being in a column like on desktop and mobile web, but hasnt come as far as one would expect after several months of feedback. Besides loading faster than mobile web, i cant see any benefit to using the app at this point.
Edit after response: a link to a help page explaining basic features of the new UI doesn’t address any of the missing features and functions i talked about in my review. Feels like a boilerplate response after reading “UI” four words in, instead of reading the actual feedback. Would appreciate an actual acknowledgement of the feedback.Show lessdijonMM
Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback on our mobile redesign. Our Help Center article explains the new mobile experience: https://support.discord.com/hc/articles/12654190110999. If you need more assistance, please reach out through dis.gd/contact.Used to be better
I am going to say this off the bat, discords desktop app is great and I have, thus far, no complaints. The mobile app is a different story. Things started going downhill when swiping to the left stopped showing server members. It’s been years and I have yet to unlearn the muscle memory from this switch. Now swiping left allows you to reply to messages (when you can just type in the chat but idk). Now you have to tap on the text channel you’re in to view the server members.
Now text chat is almost unusable. Being told that multiple messages haven’t been posted when they are obviously visible when views in desktop. Seeing duplicates of the same post after you delete the “message couldn’t be posted” prompt. Those same prompts moving to the bottom of the chat each time I open the app so I have to scroll up to view new messages. It’s slowly becoming a nightmare to keep tabs on the servers I’m active in when I’m away from my pc. I don’t care about SpongeBob skins I have to pay for (I have nitro btw) when your mobile app is a broken mess that gets worse with each update. If I hadn’t built my friend groups around discord during covid I would’ve moved apps by now.
On an unrelated note, tying number of soundboard sounds to server boosts is dumb. If I want more sounds in my server, I shouldn’t need to be popular or have rich friends.Show lessDavid of the Light
Developer Response
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about our mobile redesign. Please check out this article explaining the new updates: https://support.discord.com/hc/articles/12654190110999. If you still need help, reach out to our support team via dis.gd/contact.