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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/27307432

Looks like Discord finally fixed Linux screen and audio sharing with Wayland

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I honestly never expected this to happen and its good and benefits me because all my friends use it and streaming stuff for them has been lousy, but I also wish discord would die in a fire and and stop being used in place of traditional forums because it's janky, search interface is god awful, and not web searchable.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Discord isn't a forum, Discord is a chat software. Maybe you are thinking of Discourse which is a forum software that is also much worse than traditional forum software.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

no I mean people or organizations using specifically discord as their sole support platform and the janky threads feature in place of a real forum, but a lot of useful info buried and not pinned in the general channel and whiny assholes that get mad at you for not searching on the shittiest search implementation known to man which still gives you multiple or all channels of results when you single out specific ones. The worst part is when you search something and it gives you posts from a single thread, out of order as well as interleaved with other threads.

Then you pick one but its useless and when you go back it refreshes and gives you the list from the beginning with slight order variations to keep you on your toes.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, community servers being used as forum-like things is an issue

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately a lot of places use discord for things that forums used to do - bug reports for software, collecting feedback, even troubleshooting and tech support.

I imagine this is because discord servers are free while websites require money to maintain.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

It is absolutely used as a forum. It even has forum features built in.

[–] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have waited for this for a long time. Nice!

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And only Wayland.
Better of with vesktop honestly cause you can use higher quality video with it too.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried the update? There are comments in the article that claim discord fixed both Wayland and X11. Haven't confirmed myself, but hopefully those comments are right!

I'll probably stick with vesktop too though, I've become too attached to custom themes

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Those custom themes mostly mask the baloney the discord design team does