I mean there is always the flatpak version
I must be getting old.
Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.
Use the Flatpak or better yet stop using Discord.
It is so annoying when communities really want to have a discord. Particularly when they are somewhat technical and so any solutions that they might have are not search able.
communities really want to have a discord
And
they are somewhat technical
Something seems fishy.
The flatpak has (had?) Issues of not being able to stream application or desktop audio. The system package can and is way more up to date.
Flatpak is not the solution to everything lolThat’s a wayland specific issue and I believe the Flatpack version was right behind the version that finally fixed that about 3 months ago. It should have the good version finally but I won’t bother to check.
Im not using wayland lol
Too many issues in linux mint (cinnamon) last time i tried :')
I believe the audio streaming issue on flatpak is resolved as of a month or two ago. But I’m typically with you, system packages for the most up to date experience in most cases.
Using the flatpak version on Fedora. That issue seems to be recently solved not sure when exactly just tried it the other day and it worked!
Thats good to hear. Might have to switch back to the flatpack then!
I never said it was. The Discord Flatpak always worked for me. Not saying it didn’t for you, it just hasn’t been my experience.
Flatpaks are a really bad idea.
Because?
If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.
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This. Use Vesktop. Expand the features of Discord while outright blocking the shit.
Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.
Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that’s what we used back in the day… like a decade ago, but maybe there’s something modern and more open nowadays?
Teamspeak doesn’t even have a fraction of Discord’s features. It’s a bad alternative.
There was a post recently on c/privacy for a self hostable (relaying) peer-to-peer web based option! Its effectively release 1.0 and has some bugs (some serious security ones at the moment), but I think it has lots of promise!!
I’ll go grab the link for the post I saw…
teamspeak 6 (beta) is pretty nice.
Sick! Are you running a Linux client? Last I checked the self-hosted V6 server binary hadn’t released, if it’s finally out I’ll drop a brick!!
no, but afaik you can join ts3 servers on ts6, also tgey have a linux client. but im currently unsure if i installed it via pacman or AUR, but you can download a binary from their website
Nah, still no v6 server. At least, not on their main download page 🥲
Peersuite
Discord is trash software. Always has been.
Are there better alternatives you don’t have to self host?
Revolt. It just needs a larger userbase.
Centralized service with questionable moderation
Frankly, no, they all come with some caveat.
XMPP
Honestly people should go back to writing letters
i just use this bad boy
Btw
Yay!
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Based and nixpilled
Goofcord is privacy hardened vesktop
use the browser
All that work, and it’s a web wrapper.
When l was on it I saw no point in running it outside a browser tab
So. Very important for everyone here. You can bypasss the forced discord update.
I’m running with native electron (sure, electron) but it works great tbh
Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
Does the same on windows. Either they’re constantly changing some really deep stuff that we don’t see or notice, or it’s not actually updating just “checking” for updates or loading but it’s just slow AF.
Nah, this isn’t the launcher doing checks and applying patches, I mean like I gotta download a new .deb (basically .exe) file with an incremental difference in the version number and unpack it over the old install.
Ridiculously frequently. Like, once a week at the very least.
Okay Jesus, I think that’s just someone at discord smoking something.
Just use a flatpak sheesh
Yeah this is annoying.
“It’s your lucky day!”
I’ll figure it out
I can’t stand that I can’t close discord until I have touched that stupid dropdown, to the point I have uninstalled discord and just use a matrix bridge or the browser version.
I’m on endeavouros so the deb file is pointless
You can disable the update check in the config file. Then just update with your package manager as usual and forget about it.
That’s good to know for others, especially if that update check setting isn’t found in-app and only in the config file itself.
For me, I don’t think I am going to try again with the app.
Vesktop is nice.
I started using Discord in 2015 and around 2019 uninstalled it in favor of using it exclusively through a web browser (blocking as much of it’s nonsense as possible). Discord takes too many resources hostage if anyone in your server is streaming something, even if you’re not watching it. I don’t have that issue when using Element (Matrix), Jitsi or any of Steam’s broadcasting tools. The only reason I haven’t deleted my Discord account yet is because some people I hold dear are incapable of trying something better nowadays (even when they already have it installed as is the case of Steam).
Steam is not better than discord lmao
Honestly activitypub should get extended with support for realtime data
That would allow for all sorts of cool things
yay discord
Yes.
Even screen share is fixed in wayland now! I believe that the flatpak version was on the cusp of supporting it too so it might already. I kinda stopped caring about it when everything worked, which is certainly a good sign.
