Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. - eviltoast
Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupante
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Hubo un tiempo en que los foros de discusión eran nuestras redes sociales. Los usuarios visitaban aquellos que se ajustaban a cierta temática y eso les...
  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    533·
    8 days ago

    Element needs to be better. Discord is awesome with the way it auto-plays looping videos/gifs and has animated emojis.

    Seriously: That’s all they’d need to do. The element devs need to focus on fun.

    • joshchandra@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Also, people forget that Discord’s streaming capability is, unfortunately, absolutely top-notch; no other community-screensharing platform has fewer issues, and my friends and I like to watch each other play games often.

    • troed@fedia.io
      13·
      8 days ago

      Isn’t that a client side issue though? Element is just one Matrix client. I haven’t used it myself but heard from others that Fluffychat (another Matrix client) is more like Discord.

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
        132·
        8 days ago

        Yeah it’s probably just a client side issue but the OP mentioned Element, specifically 🤷

        I just wanted to point out that Element is no fun! No fun at all!

        It works and it works great for what it does. Even voice and streaming are great with Element. It’s just got a terrible, no-fun interface and pointless limitations on things like looping videos. You can’t even configure it to make them play properly (as in, automatic and endlessly, the way they were meant to be played! 😤).

        Looping videos and animated emojis are super fun ways to chat with people. Even in professional settings! It really breaks up the humdrum and can motivate people to chat and share more.

        Element is all serious all the time and going into a chat channel there feels like a chore.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          54·
          8 days ago

          If I’m talking with people about the topical thing which is why I joined a room in the first place, the last thing I want is a looping autoloops fruityloops annoyance. Plus, not autoplaying and autolooping them saves battery.

          • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
            153·
            8 days ago

            I hate to break this to you but that means you’re not normal. If all you ever do in chat is talk about serious things that are of such earth-shattering importance that it would be incredibly rude and obnoxious for someone to post a silent looping video you’re not normal, and no fun at all.

            The way Element currently works, it’s made for people like you… A strange minority that probably only thinks about “chat” in terms of communicating for an end goal and not for the pleasure of conversation.

            • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              9·
              7 days ago

              Plus all this stuff can be disabled in discord too, if you want to be that serious. There are per-role and per-channel settings that let you disable images, link embedding, external emojis, etc.

              It gives you choice. I have no choice in Element, it’s always unfun all the time.

            • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              22·
              7 days ago

              Oh, do cry me a river while you’re at it. Pretty much every community everywhere has a general or memes room, those are for the meme gifs (or wait, these are webp these days…).

      • fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.netEnglish
        8·
        8 days ago

        It is, but Element is still the “Gold standard” Matrix client and the most popular. And if you’re going to create a brand new chat protocol, you should make sure that your flagship client measures up to the competition.

      • Dil@is.hardlywork.ingEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        thats why I want misskey the emoji reactions to anything are always more fun than just likes

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      What would likely help a lot if it was easier to get set up, particularly on a VPS or something like that. Small businesses and or larger community projects would be more likely to jump on possibly.

      Another thing is ability to easily join, a lot of the above just have an easy link to join their discord server, not sure how easy matrix on boarding is currently as I still haven’t gotten my instance functional yet (not even half done with synapse configuration seemingly)