I remember the first day I got on Discord. My friend said, "it's like IRC." Yeah, the chat part. Once I figured out how the fuck I could get to the place to chat with my friend.
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None of those have such a bad UI, if you think those are bad then you probably never had to use atrocious apps for work!
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome if you ask me. Reddit UI is definitely terrible, especially on mobile. YouTube and Discord are marginally better but seem to be busy trying to find new ways to make it worse every other week.
Spotify should also be on that list BTW.
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They all want to give you just enough control to make you think you chose what their algorithm recommended for you.
YouTube isn't even following material design 3...
The one competition I can win against all big corporations
The competition in making the worst ui?
Yes
What's bad about discord?
The app has gone absolutely down the shitter after they decided it should mirror other shitty apps instead of the desktop experience. Desktop I'd argue isn't as much worsened, but there's still annoying details like the omnipresent gift button.
The new UI on mobile app is awful. Less intuitive, slower and buggy. I don't know how they did this, but sometimes it takes even a few seconds to switch between views (eg. from servers to DM)
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Discord's UI is bad?
The mobile app
mobile app is super bad.
Steams is bad too.
All these services had decent, simple, sleek UIs.
and then some dumb motherfucker came in and was all "K.I.S.S.? Whats that? We don't need that trash! Lets make it flashy and stupid and annoying to use!"
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Discord user of 5 years, use it daily, I've had the update for a week or more, and I'm still fumbling with buttons to find what I'm looking for. It's really badly done.
There was recently an update to the mobile app that was very poorly received
One button left called "Watch Ad" and it spans the whole screen.
i like the YouTube ui excluding the channel page
Honestly discords UI is pretty good its just weirdly missing some features entierly.
Does not apply to the mobile app
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If the aim is to drive users towards brainless engagement with arbitrary content, they're great.
But for UX they're dogwater.