I didn't see any rules on advertising so I hope this is okay! This'll be my only post about it here

This method requires use of the Vencord add-on.

• In Discord user settings under Vencord, find the Plugins tab.

• Search for the 'Experiments' plugin, enable and restart discord when prompted.

• When Discord restarts you should find a new Experiments tab under Developer Only.

• In the the Experiments tab to search for 'Desktop Visual Refresh', Select it and in the Bucket Override drop down menu set it to Not Eligible.

This will revert you back to the former desktop layout and might fix issues experienced while using Vencord Themes. It fixed it on my end while using DTM-08 but I've heard others say their themes are still broken.

Also no telling how long this will keep working for and Discord will probably disable this workaround in a future update.

At least you can hide them, for now. Another notch on the "enshittification" scale.

TL;DR: Discord launched its Social SDK, enabling game devs to integrate social features like voice, video, and text chat directly into games. This aims to enhance in-game social experiences and make it easier for players to connect and communicate without leaving the game. The SDK is designed to be developer-friendly, is free to use and supports cross-platform functionality. You can also use it as a player without needing an account, but linking your Discord account will give you more functionality.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39282773

Check out the archived version for easy access:

https://archive.is/2025.03.06-011758/https://www.ft.com/content/4ab9efe7-36bc-44ff-b2cd-06eb2c38203a

I've been exploring alternatives to Discord and came across Matrix clients, Guilded, and Revolt.

The Matrix protocol is open-source, decentralized, federated, and can be self-hosted. However, Matrix clients seem to struggle on mobile; my friends often complain about how slow and buggy the Element client is. As for other Matrix clients, they don't seem to like the interface either.

Guilded, unfortunately, lost its charm when Roblox acquired it.

Revolt is open-source and doesn't have paid features like Discord, or so I've heard. But is that the only thing that sets it apart?

Have tested this myself - you need to still give permission to the app to be connected to your account if you haven't used them, but other than that, it works out of the box.

If you don't like this, your best option would probably be to move to https://revolt.chat/

Discord’s Wellbeing & Empowerment team is working with Dr. Rachel Kowert, an internationally acclaimed expert in mental health, trust, and safety in digital games, to develop a resource to educate and equip moderators with strategies and tools to support their mental health and promote the well-being of their online communities. Moderators and community managers play an essential role in maintaining safe and positive spaces in gaming and digital communities, and we can’t create this resource without hearing directly from those we aim to support!

Basically, they are asking for input from moderators and admins who moderate to help shape development of moderator strategies and tools on Discord.

Direct link to the survey:

https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bIYv8Gmf9h7bX3o

I’ve never used discord but there’s a couple communities I want to browse that apparently only are in discord. The official app seems like shit privacy wise so I don’t want to install it. What alternatives are recommended? Or some work around?

github repo for issue reporting. for the whole time I have me in the process of making this I have been typing AAC as ACC so I thought ffmpeg hated me.

I hope is is helpful for someone and where else should I post this info so it can be seen on search indexs.

Discord Embed Support

PC = Windows 10 / Arch Linux

• Discord app
• Vesktop
• Vencord

Mobile = Android 14 One UI 6.1

Audio playback support

tool: flac ffmpeg lame

WAV 64 bit float point isn't supported.

Image preview support

tool: imagemagick

I think imagemagick uses libheif for avif.

Animation preview support

tool: ffmpeg

Video playback support

tool:ffmpeg

h265 On my Arch Linux install the first frame is the only frame but the audio doesn't have any issues.

Video Container

Video Codecs

Audio Codecs

WAV 64 bit float point isn’t supported.

License

CC BY-SA-4.0

I got these half square half round icons since today on my Discord. Is this a new thing ? Is this something existing that I accidentally turned on ?

If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.

Hello Lemmy. Discord locked me out of my account and wants me to verify using my phone number. Issue being, I gave them this phone number over 4 years ago and I took it off of my account at least 2 years ago and never added a 2nd. The reason I can't verify that number is because it was a burner phone. What do I do, or am I completely fucked?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26986197

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

A while ago I've noticed Discord using 8-10% of my CPU every time I open Task Manager. This doesn't really sound weird... Until you realize this is when my Discord client is NOT running (AKA after I fully exit out of it so it's not even present in the tray area on the right side of the taskbar). From what I can tell, it's using about 400MB of memory, no disk or network and about 8% of CPU (I have 6 cores/12 threads and that 8-10% seems to be distributed among all of them). It's possible it uses disk and network in short bursts after a long period of inactivity, but I havent spotted it doing that so far). If I were to kill Discord.exe in the task manager - it would go away and not come back until I restarted my computer. At first, I didn't think much of it - I thought maybe it's doing some background update or something, but it is constant, it doesn't go away unless I kill it. When I run Discord - another Discord entry appears in the task manager - the suspicious one seems unaffected. Both entries take me to the same file when I click "Open file location". The file seems normal and signed by Discord. What is going on here? Do you guys also have this going on or is it just me? I'm getting some really sus vibes ngl. I suspect a discord bug/unoptimized code, 3rd party malware or Discord itself secretly doing some malicious thing.

UPDATE: Multiple clean reinstalls haven't helped.