#discord ui

[ch-1-mera]

GUYS!! discord is fucking up again!!

!!BE WARNED!!!

[barnowlbookworm]

WHAT IS THIS. WHAT. IS THIS. WHERE. ARE. THE CIRCLES.

I HATE IT. WHERE ARE MY CIRCLES.

MY CIRCLES, DISCORD, WHERE DID YOU TAKE THEM??

Is there a petition to change it back because if there is SEND IT MY WAY.

[twilightzebby]

Ok because I'm geniunely curious as to how many people on Tumblr actually like the refreshed Desktop UI for Discord, here's a poll.

Please don't start a fight in the notes I beg of you. Even if you don't like the refreshed UI, remain calm & civil and most of all constructive. :)

Do you like the refreshed Discord Desktop UI?

Yes fully

Mostly yes but there's a couple minor negatives

Mostly yes but there's one major negative

On the fence / Unsure / Need longer to try it & decide

Mostly no but there's one major postive

Mostly no but there's a couple minor postives

Fully no

Voting ended onMar 28, 2025

[pixiel]

My message on Discord's new UI

"I have visual snow syndrome, a symptom of visual snow syndrome is that white text on a very dark background can cause afterimages. You know screen burn? Imagine screen burn in your eyes, where whatever you were looking at is stuck there for up to an hour. Light mode is physically painful and dark mode is disabling. Your new changes are an accessibility nightmare and have made the app fully unusable for me. And that's not even mentioning the fact that a lot of the changes you made to the app are absolutely awful, convoluted and just plain stupid for ease of use. I know companies love to pull the "well we know every single tester has hated it, but we spent a lot of money redesigning it so we're doing it anyway!" card. But this isn't the logo, this isn't the blue, this isn't minor changes you'll stop noticing after a while. This is a huge overhaul that is again AN ACCESSIBILITY NIGHTMARE! Cut your losses and listen to your audience because I'm seeing a lot of people posting API alternatives to Discord in other servers and Reddit. People will not be using your app. Do better. Discord mobile is fully unusable to me until you make changes, I physically cannot look at the text anymore. Please fix it and do the smart thing."

I downloaded the last APK file for Discord before the change, but this is genuinely disheartening. Discord is actively refusing to even read genuine complaints, telling people 'Well this is how it is now'. Much like Tumblr.

Please send feedback on the Discord app as well as on the store pages! Please let them know this isn't the same as just changing the icon or the colour of their blue. This is an actual accessibility issue!

I will admit though, the ONE good thing about the change is the new Media feature while searching chats, but it's completely overshadowed by everything else and the lack of pages (only infinite scroll) makes it difficult to find things.

[zemathememequeen]

Ok, no, I actually want to talk about how bad the new discord mobile design is as a user.

If I get a DM on discord, then a little notification icon appears at the top of my discord app alerting me of this. To view the DM, I then have to swipe to open the server list, and then look to the bottom of the screen to see that it's a DM. Upon tapping the messages icon, it opens the messages, and where is the new message? Near the top of the fucking screen.

Compare this to the old layout. The notification appears in the top left, and I swipe to open the server list. I can now not only instantly see that I have a DM (or DMs) because my eyes are already looking at the top of the screen, but I can also see exactly who has messaged me because it shows me their icon. And if more than one person has messaged me, I can not only see that too, but I can also choose whose message I want to read first.

In addition, not only is it significantly more inconvenient to view my DMs, it's also more inconvenient to get back to the server list.

It utterly baffles me that discord would change this design. I have to go through more screens now to see my DMs, and I have to move my eyes from the top, to the bottom, then back to the top of the screen to view them. It is just straight up worse design! What were they thinking???

[litwafflehouse]

Tumblr and discord gotta be making out in some closet the way they keep making the ugliest overlays/UIs

[neon-zipperooni]

who let discord cook on this new ui i want the old one back this one messes with my muscle memory so bad and it is actively less convenient like

the member list is way out of the way instead of being a simple swipe to the right, now swiping to the right triggers a reply on the message you swiped over instead

search tool is missing several results and no longer lets you go through pages you have to scroll down which makes finding stuff harder especially if it’s not recent

why is the invite members button right below the search that makes me anxious abt accidentally inviting someone to a server that’s supposed to be private or something

something something DM list and server list didn’t need to be in separate tabs

okay two good things uhh I like how voice calls look and being able to search for members is handy

but oh my god everything else is so much less convenient and it wasn’t needed

[histrionicscribbler]

Do you actually like the new Discord mobile layout?

yes

no

haven't gotten it yet

Voting ended onDec 14, 2023