Discord pushed an update for it's Linux desktop app that is only available in pure tar ball or as a Ubuntu optimized Deb package
It's currently broken on my openSUSE install in every install-able form I can find... so short of me compiling the software from source (I don't want to do that) I guess I get to wait until some poor soul (not from discord) ports it to the repositories I actually use
This shit shouldn't be hard... Discord is abandon ware at this point on Linux. Like I knew it was bad... but if I'm going to be having to run my client in a chrome tab for full functionality at all times already, I may as well be on a chromebook or smartphone
I know someone will fix this in a few days, but like FFS, there is no way in hell I'd be able to get everyone to move away from Discord, despite terrible policy bs and the constant fear of various scams/hacks, but like I have genuine disdain for the app and company at this point
If modern software keeps moving the way it has been, I may end up going "fuck it" and becoming a Samsung Dex user or something, I don't know at this point, god I hate venture capital funded orgs
When Ripcord (a piece of software I paid for that can't get updates anymore because A Certain Company threatened them) finally stops working, I will probably just stop using Discord (a service I pay for) because the official client is borderline unusable for people who have to deal with lots of servers and channels for work. Their solution to this is folders I guess, except you can't name the folders, and folders are really only useful for servers you plan to ignore entirely, in which case why are you on the server (the answer is because Patreon forcibly joins you to a server for every person you support, and neither Patreon or Discord let you disable this.)
So instead, I have maybe 1-3 channels per server across ~18 servers that actually matter to me, and to keep up with them I have to toggle my way through a bunch of fucking Icons and then scan each crowded, disorganized channel list to see which channels have activity, then click into the channels to see what was said. The way it handles channels and servers makes me think their product is just designed for people who don't use it much, in which case the current design is fit for purpose. I could complain about how bad its notification system is but I've just given up and I turn them off for every server.
On the bright side I will say that despite my hatred for Discord, it's still much better than Slack and Teams. So they have that going for them.
