jetsetdorito 30 points 3 years ago

"try adding numbers"

It HAD numbers, you picked those numbers!!

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FindingFocus 9 points 3 years ago

They even let us pick the numbers! That's why I got Nitro originally! I'd have never paid for years of nitro without that feature, in fact.

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Swuden 21 points 3 years ago

I don’t get their motivation behind this change. I mean I read the write-up they posted, but I don’t get how they could seriously think this is a better experience for users.

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TehSr0c 13 points 3 years ago

it's a better experience for corpos that want their brand name to be uniquely identifiable.

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verysoft 11 points 3 years ago

Their blogpost was complete gaslight, none of the points they listed made any sense.

It was literally just look more like a mainstream social platform, there are rumours of an IPO...

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postmeridiem 4 points 3 years ago

Epic, another shittification speedrun?

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Amir 6 points 3 years ago

Twitter, Reddit and Discord in the span of one year? Great...

Edit: sorry to be Reddit-pedantic but it's enshittificarion

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FoxBJK 2 points 3 years ago

Oh good, Discord is gonna blow itself up. Maybe we can all go back to Mumble and IRC once it’s all over.

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Thalyssa 3 points 3 years ago

I don't find the previous system even difficult to navigate. I guess Discord is looking IPO since standard usernames are easier to digest or something...

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OtakuAltair 15 points 3 years ago

I wish revolt was more popular smh

They recently added display names while keeping the tags as a direct 'fuck you' to discord lol

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Aurix 5 points 3 years ago

I frankly have no idea why you would prefer it over Discord other than open source access. Revolt dissuades from self-hosting, is non-federating, has no stable business model and lacks in features. It is a prototype for a future where Discord catastrophically burns down.

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jiji 3 points 3 years ago

It is a prototype for a future where Discord catastrophically burns down.

To be fair, between Twitter and now Reddit, it’s not exactly a bad idea to have alts and backups lol.

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DoruDoLasu 1 point 3 years ago

official client is customisable and by default looks way better than discord, third party clients are allowed, it's feels the opposite of corporate, doesn't have AI, has its original features like multireplies and except for the pretty inferior voice chat that will undergo rewrite there aren't really any I miss, I do quite well without super reactions. as for now donations are sufficient, you always have an option to self-host and tbh if it was federated most people would be on the official server anyway, it would be harder for normal people to join and moderation would be harder so I'm pretty ok with not having it there... not like discord has that

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Aurix 1 point 3 years ago

As being part of some very large communities, as soon as Discord drops a new feature, there is some way these groups make use of it in a beneficial way. Revolt would not need just some original features, but near full parity to be even remotely considered, think LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office. And even then there might be reasons to stay due to implementation details for complex use cases.

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RandomLegend 3 points 3 years ago

@OtakuAltair

Do you know if it's possible to:

Somehow add Discord Servers to Revolt? Like a bridge in matrix to whatsapp for example?
Add Bots / Webhooks like Discord? I have multiple servers and setup alerts that use a discord bot.

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OtakuAltair 3 points 3 years ago

I don't really use bots and stuff much, but there's Revcord on github to bridge between discord and revolt

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RandomLegend 3 points 3 years ago

@OtakuAltair

Correct name, wrong link ;-)
https://github.com/mayudev/revcord

But thanks, exactly what i was looking for!

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DoruDoLasu 1 point 3 years ago

Automod bot is probably the biggest public bridge that you don't need to host. You can though. There's also the other one that has been linked here already
Bots are supported (you can see some in Discover), Webhooks are coming

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Mentrix 11 points 3 years ago

Even though I got "pussyslayer69", I still miss the "#6969" :'(

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Otome-chan 9 points 3 years ago

they still haven't given me the option to "update" my name yet lol

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000 5 points 3 years ago

It's based on nitro but also how old your account is. I don't have nitro but joined in 2016 and got a message to update mine last week

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Otome-chan 5 points 3 years ago

oh my old discord account was banned a while back so I had made a new one lol. I guess that's why. I also don't pay for nitro.

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kaffeebohne 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah me neither actually. Everybody I talk to had to tho lol

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Otome-chan 3 points 3 years ago

yup I see a lot of people with it already

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BloP 6 points 3 years ago

I barely got my username with one character change.

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flashgnash 6 points 3 years ago

Can't you just add the numbers back yourself and set a displayname without it?

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CinnamonTheCat 4 points 3 years ago

Try revolt. I've used it, and it seems like a great alternative. They recently added the numbers, lol. https://revolt.chat

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Aurix 5 points 3 years ago

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vvv 3 points 3 years ago

lets all be real. non-unique names what makes discord real discord and what also eliminates unique name marketing or targetting

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kaffeebohne 1 point 3 years ago

Ikr

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NorthWestWind 2 points 3 years ago

Screw them. They use snowflakes anyway so what's the point

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vkeycaps 2 points 3 years ago

Thankfully I have unique enough username(brand name)

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MacDougal 2 points 3 years ago

I thought about trying tobdo mine with the pound sign followed by the original numbers but oddly MacDougal was available still so i ran with it

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magmaus3 2 points 3 years ago

pomelo moment

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NotAPenguin -8 points 3 years ago

I still don't understand why people are so mad at this.

Before you were forced to have numbers in your name and now you get a choice, the numbers aren't forced on you.

Isn't more choice better?

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chaosppe 7 points 3 years ago

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FaceDeer 0 points 3 years ago

You can set a display name without the numbers, though, can't you? This seems like a fairly minor issue.

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beebanoo 7 points 3 years ago

yes, but people like to complain.

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sheepyowl 1 point 3 years ago

Let's be real - it literally makes no difference at all. I don't know why they did it considering it makes absolutely 0 difference from a user standpoint.

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Amir 1 point 3 years ago

I think the change was good, but giving Nitro users the option to choose months in advance was really dumb.

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Notnotmike 0 points 3 years ago

Right? I realize there are instances where you couldn't see the numbers but those were few

Also, they're so inconsequential, you have a display name which is non-unique and every server has nicknames. There's almost zero point to the username

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