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

  • tiramichu@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I was almost convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it’s been broken so long. Like, years long.

    It was broken so long I honestly wouldn’t have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken. With steam working so well on Linux now, broken discord streaming without actual working audio share was one of the last things that posed a hurdle for gamers ditching Windows.

    (In the meantime, thank you Vesktop for your service <3)

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOP
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      3 months ago

      I saw something from a discord dev (can’t find it, so grain of salt) about how there was interest recently to do it, but they’d have to work on other stuff that affected everyone first, and they’d probably get it done by q4 2024, guess they were right.

      I think before then the whole linux graphics and audio space hadn’t really stabilized enough for them to be interested.

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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            3 months ago

            I wouldn’t say discord is either of those things

            They need to limit server sizes, get rid of community searching, and add #XXXX to the end of usernames before we can pretend that

            • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              Wouldn’t limiting server sizes and getting rid of community searching be removing features? Why would anyone want that?

              And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.

              • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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                3 months ago

                Why would anyone want that?

                1 they aren’t pedos

                2 they want an app to talk to their friends with

                3 they don’t want to be victims of misinformation campaigns

                And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.

                Yeah it was better, it meant if you were being stalked you could just have the numbers changed. Now you need a completely different alias with the only purpose to be discouraging victims from getting help

                • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  1- What does that have to do with anything?

                  2- Then make a private server for just your friends.

                  3- Then make a private server for just your friends.

                  And no, it wasn’t better. Just… different.