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Issues with Discord
Feb. 7th, 2021 06:08 pm[Note: this post was originally made to Pillowfort on Nov 1, 2020.]
How does anyone ever survive big discord servers. Overwhelming. Too much going on. Five billion channels and I have all but three of them muted and I'm still getting notifications throwing a new message onto my screen every two seconds. Multiple conversations in the same channel happening at once making it all hard to follow. Everyone seems like they're already friends and I'm this clueless interloper who doesn't belong there. Three people who've been memorably unkind to me are always online and I live on edge never knowing when they're about to jump in.
The worst of it though is the agony of timing. Something interesting or objectionable came up four hours ago but there's a different conversation going now and do I bring it up here? Now? Interrupting people? You're going to make me interrupt people in order to talk? Horrifying. Or what, am I supposed to just wait indefinitely for that rare moment when everyone goes quiet? Why can't there just be a way to append something directly, regardless of what else is also going on at the moment? Why does everything have to hinge so much on the question of the precise moment? How does anyone live like this?
How does anyone ever survive big discord servers. Overwhelming. Too much going on. Five billion channels and I have all but three of them muted and I'm still getting notifications throwing a new message onto my screen every two seconds. Multiple conversations in the same channel happening at once making it all hard to follow. Everyone seems like they're already friends and I'm this clueless interloper who doesn't belong there. Three people who've been memorably unkind to me are always online and I live on edge never knowing when they're about to jump in.
The worst of it though is the agony of timing. Something interesting or objectionable came up four hours ago but there's a different conversation going now and do I bring it up here? Now? Interrupting people? You're going to make me interrupt people in order to talk? Horrifying. Or what, am I supposed to just wait indefinitely for that rare moment when everyone goes quiet? Why can't there just be a way to append something directly, regardless of what else is also going on at the moment? Why does everything have to hinge so much on the question of the precise moment? How does anyone live like this?
