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

      • sntx@lemm.ee
        2·
        14 minutes ago

        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@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 minutes ago

          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 for my username because i refused to give discord my phone number haha.
          Also, their response is terrible haha

      • onlooker@lemmy.ml
        3·
        39 minutes ago

        The founder’s shady history with OpenFeint, their entire privacy policy and shit like this, take your pick. Wikipedia also has an entire section dedicated to Discord’s controversies. No matter how you look at it, Discord has a great many shortcomings.

  • jonesy
    6·
    5 hours ago

    Just installed Canary on my system to test this, and while it’s a little janky and the hardware acceleration seems to stop other apps using the GPU at the same time this is still good enough I think I can finally move to Linux as my main OS. I assume this will get polished further in the future. Great stuff though.

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 hour ago

      There is another, semi official linux client called vesktop. Comes with a range of plugin options, all improving or enabling functions the default client doesnt offer or hides behind a paywall. It also has had screen share on Linux for the longest time,if you do the switch give it a go. Certainly better than the default app

      • jonesy
        12·
        2 hours ago

        Pretty much! Never saw anything that said the browser client worked on Linux, but last time I tried the discord browser client it was pretty rubbish as well.

  • tiramichu@lemm.ee
    1142·
    12 hours 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)

    • kuneho@lemmy.world
      61·
      5 hours ago

      You give them too much credit. It’s just shitty, that’s it.

      Discord is pretty much broken on all platform. It always was. There’s just no real alternative unfortunately.

      • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        3 hours ago

        “Don’t attribute to malice what is explained by incompetence”

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
          2·
          1 hour ago

          There is an alternative people have used before discord came, it is called teamspeak. Is still around as well, but works more like a federated system since everyone has to set up and host their own server for people to use.

          • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            1 minute ago

            We would have to sit down and actually think what an opensource solution can achieve and how it gets traction. Also from the get go it should be clear that there will be no feature parity between it and discord. If it was me, I would cut out the whole chatroom functionality, leave private messaging in, use threaded conversations as a standard and but a decent videocall system on top. But this would be my version of it, other people have other needs.

            For the video call system you would not have to reinvent the wheel, use something existing like Jitsi (?) or alternatives. Then you would

            Maybe the best bet is to look at matrix and wrench out the chatroom focus and replace it with threads?

    • deadcream@sopuli.xyz
      18·
      8 hours ago

      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.

      Tech companies are fully capable of being lazy for free. Fixing this takes dev time from other work that brings Discord money so doing this costs them, especially considering that Linux userbase must be rather tiny. 99% of software companies don’t give a shit about making quality product and will always try their hardest to do as little work as possible while making as much money as possible. If fixing a bug will cost them more than potential profits from making it work then they won’t fix it.

      • tiramichu@lemm.ee
        2·
        4 hours ago

        You’re right of course, it’s definitely down to simple lack of incentive, rather than some kind of conspiracy. But the conspiracy was a fun shower thought! :)

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOP
      51·
      12 hours 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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      12 hours ago

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

      Heh. There’s a ticket with Splunk. It’s a simple request: do the 30 sec of work to let us install your software rpm from a proper yum repo.

      They can’t figure out how.

      They won’t ask.

      It’s 12 years old now.

      The ticket for them to do a trivial exercise with tools twice as old, is now a tween. It can ride the bus on its own. I think it can get a Facebook account. Maybe.

      We should get one for it.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      It was 100% because the existing Electron version they were using was ancient, a giant pain in the ass to update, and represents exactly zero revenue for them so they hadn’t bothered putting anyone on fixing it. Every tech company has the ticking time bomb in the corner like that.

    • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      61·
      12 hours ago

      Screen sharing infrastructure (for Wayland) in Linux was still in development recently. Maybe they just wanted to be able to use newer APIs?

  • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
    371·
    12 hours ago

    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.

  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOP
    711·
    13 hours ago

    And yes, vesktop did it first, but discord’s version is quite a bit more polished

    • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
      8·
      8 hours 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…