Since it first launched years in the past because the Skype-killer app for Twitch streamers and gaming communities, VOIP and group chat app Discord has hulked up. New options are consistently within the works like sorting servers you’ve joined into folders, an overlay for seeing your voice chat whereas in-game, and loads of different massive ticket options. Like any widely-used app that reigns over a relative lack of competitors (lookin’ at you, Steam) some options simply don’t survive contact with customers and have to be culled (lookin’ at you, Steam). Discord threw two such underutilised bits within the bin this week.
First up on the chopping block is the Activity Feed. I’m certain somebody on the market used it, however I—an individual who’s on Discord throughout all of my waking hours seven days every week—didn’t. Apparently it helps you to launch games you’ve lately performed even from different launchers. Ah, hiya to Sims 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Stardew Valley. Good to see you tucked up there. It tells you what your mates have lately performed. Oh, and it hyperlinks to weblog posts from official web sites, as Discord put, “for a game you performed as soon as eight months in the past…oh Activity Feed…”
Instead, Discord remind customers that they’ve entry to the newer characteristic “Channel Following” which helps you to get bulletins from partnered and verified servers (typically official game servers, massive communities, and #contentcreators) and have these bulletins replicated in your personal server. It provides you extra management over what you’d prefer to see than the Activity Feed’s slapdash data overload.
Though, as customers have already begun declaring within the feedback on Discord’s announcement, Channel Following requires them to truly be in a related server on Discord, additional cluttering their server lists as a substitute of getting that information from an exterior supply displayed within the app.
The Discord retailer in its beta days.
Second as much as minimize are the Library tab that hangs out above your checklist of direct messages and the associated Universal Games Launcher. Discord’s tackle the library to finish all libraries apparently wasn’t hitting the mark. “We’re removing both of these to keep your Discord experience fast and clean,” they are saying. But wait, what about these of you who’ve purchased games from Discord? You might have forgotten (I did) however Discord have truly dabbled with promoting games to customers.
If you may have purchased or will purchase a game from Discord, your games will at all times be accessible. The Library tab will keep for you, and also you’ll have the choice to disable it from User Settings > Appearances.
The remainder of us who’ve but to purchase a Discord game might be kissing the Library goodbye.
You can learn Discord’s weblog publish explaining these modifications on their blog. If you’re on the lookout for one other server to name house, what about becoming a member of the RPS Discord server?
