Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux’s permission prompts

    • DacoTaco
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      Only in servers that enabled that verification. Its a server setting

      • @Faresh@lemmy.ml
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        129 days ago

        It isn’t just a server thing. Discord can request a phone number from you if they think something unusual is happening. Trying to create an account while using tor will make them ask for a phone number, and they reject those numbers offered by shared number services.

        • DacoTaco
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          Fair enough, but then you are kinda asking for it if youre doing fishy shit. They need, and i do mean need, to somehow verify the actions being done are from a normal user and not a botnet or other fishy activity…

      • @sntx@lemm.ee
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        Sent by me:

        Dear Discord Privacy Team!

        I’m writing to you to inform you that your platform (mobile, desktop, browser) can enforce the user to verify their account with a phone number, after the user has changed their E-Mail adress. This is a serios privacy problem! I’d like you to verify that you don’t intend on providing other (more privacy friendly) means of account verification apart from providing the phone number. I suddenly cannot use my Discord account due to this and I object to providing a phone number.

        Kind regards, ~sntx

        Their answer:

        Discord Privacy Team (Discord Support)

        Hi there,

        Thanks for reaching out to us. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to assist you here. This channel is reserved for privacy questions and requests.

        It looks like this is a question for our Customer Support team. We recommend that you resubmit your request and choose the appropriate reporting option. You can do so here: […].

        In the meantime you can check out our Help Center for more info on everything Discord.

        We appreciate your understanding.

        Sincerely, Discord Privacy Team

        • DacoTaco
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          But its a server setting to need phone verification. Im on a ton of servers and never provided them my phone number. One server changed access rights manually for my username because i refused to give discord my phone number when they enabled the verification requirement haha.
          Also, their response is terrible haha

  • foremanguy
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    Sorry but I don’t really care about discord news on Linux…

  • @adrianhooves@sopuli.xyz
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    51 month ago

    i don’t use it because my laptop is a toshiba from 2006 i think and it runs xubuntu which is pretty cool!! but discord runs a little bit slow so sadly no screensharing and anyway for most of my friends i use email to talk to them

  • @Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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    Oh my fuck, finally. Good lord Discord, only took you eons to get that working with Wayland after you broke it.

    I get that there’s other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.

      • @Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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        Not if I want calling, video chat, screen sharing and role based chat rooms all in the same place. I’ve explored this, but it just isn’t feature complete enough at the moment. I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user and Matrix just doesn’t manage it.

        • @index@sh.itjust.works
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          Calls and video chats works just fine in matrix and client like element allow you to integrate other services if you don’t like the default ones.

          I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user

          You sound a lot like someone who use windows. We are on a linux sub.

          • @Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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            I am a Linux user. Bizarre assumption to make given my excitement over a Wayland specific Discord feature. But I don’t have any actual qualms with how Discord implements its own services. Matrix just doesn’t fit the bill for me. If you enjoy it, and it suits your needs then all the power to you. It just isn’t what works for me.

      • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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        Matrix does not have the features of Discord. It’s far closer to a Telegram alternative. It doesn’t even have voice channels, a very basic requirement for a Discord alternative.

    • Russ
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      121 month ago

      I’m not sure if this is actually possible - as far as I know, applications can’t track key presses/mouse movement when their associated window isn’t in focus. It’d be great if they just gave the option to disable the AFK detection since it doesn’t work…

        • miss phant
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          Haven’t used it in a while but from what I remember it always puts you in idle if you do something else and only back to online if you do something in Discord itself, as expected from the Wayland limitation.

          It could be implemented with the ext-idle-notify-v1 protocol.

          • @sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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            In my case it refused to ever mark me as idle, which meant I never got any notifications on mobile…

        • Russ
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          530 days ago

          Ah, I thought this was in regards to AFK tracking when discord isn’t focused (which this plugin still won’t fix due to the mentioned Wayland restrictions) - I didn’t realize that it still didn’t work even when discord was focused, which is strange.

          I’ve been using Vesktop since screen share wasn’t working on Wayland, and it already seems to do what this plugin does hence my confusion.

  • Jeena
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    321 month ago

    I like their UX, the button doesn’t say “Share screen” but “Make Selection”. On Element my dad every time has such a hard time to share the screen because even though he did it already a hundred times, he presses the share screen button and then waits, without choosing which window or screen to share.

    • @Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOP
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      you first click the “share screen” button, then it asks if you want to share a device, screen or window, then it shows you that screen, that summons a permission prompt tailored to what you selected recently.

      I agree it’s quite nice

  • @Saff@lemmy.ml
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    Oh awesome, I’ve been using the webcord version as the others were all shit for screen sharing. Having said that even webcord also has weird sound issue sim hoping are fixed with this.

    • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      Third party discord clients keep letting me down, not updating their electron version and breaking my system updates cause it’s marked insecure

      Browser version with extensions is the way to go

        • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
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          Stylus for theming, vimium for navigation

          It works a lot better than the discord app, more responsive for one. Ctrl k on the app takes a few seconds, takes half a second on web

          Multiple instances at once without any hassle is nice, the ability to open links in the same window instead of having it open a browser somewhere (tiling wm with discord in a pop up layer)

          Seems to be less resource intensive I assume because no electron wrapper running, just Firefox which I already have open anyway

          Plus the main one is that because it’s not using electron I don’t have the constant drama with insecure electron versions, also if discord forces an update and your package manager doesn’t update you just can’t use discord for a few days until it catches up

    • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, I’ve been using Vesktop/Vencord all this time. Has more features than Discord with Nitro. No reason to really switch back to the official client.