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I know a few people who have been waiting for this! Discord, a newer chat app used by gamers now has an experimental Linux app ready for some testing.
I've tested it myself, and while it is nice it does have a number of issues like:
- No window buttons
- No tray icon on Ubuntu
- Their message notifications use a weird pop-up box rather than the native notifications area
- No menubar
- Really light text on a white background in places, same on their website, it's terrible
- Notification sounds for a user leaving or joining a voice channel don't seem to work
- A number of other issues
They do mention it's really early, and it will be improved upon.
I can see why an application like this is useful for sure, and I will probably keep using it. While I do like Teamspeak myself Discord seems to just make everything a lot easier. With friends lists, separated voice and text channels and more. A light and dark theme is great, but they really need more appearance options.
Everything feels very smooth once you learn the basics of the app, I really like it.
Feel free to join the "gamingonlinux" channel I created:
https://discord.gg/0rxBtcSOonvGzXr4
See their reddit post about it here.
Also, thanks to sigz in the comments for pointing it out there's actually an unofficial version on Github that works quite a bit better (in my tests) right now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I've tested it myself, and while it is nice it does have a number of issues like:
- No window buttons
- No tray icon on Ubuntu
- Their message notifications use a weird pop-up box rather than the native notifications area
- No menubar
- Really light text on a white background in places, same on their website, it's terrible
- Notification sounds for a user leaving or joining a voice channel don't seem to work
- A number of other issues
They do mention it's really early, and it will be improved upon.
I can see why an application like this is useful for sure, and I will probably keep using it. While I do like Teamspeak myself Discord seems to just make everything a lot easier. With friends lists, separated voice and text channels and more. A light and dark theme is great, but they really need more appearance options.
Everything feels very smooth once you learn the basics of the app, I really like it.
Feel free to join the "gamingonlinux" channel I created:
https://discord.gg/0rxBtcSOonvGzXr4
See their reddit post about it here.
Also, thanks to sigz in the comments for pointing it out there's actually an unofficial version on Github that works quite a bit better (in my tests) right now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: neowiz73I am a bit curious as to how they plan to make money with this service. if it was open sourced I bet we would have better functionality on Linux in quicker time.
They answered this question recently they plan to have sound themes and skin themes sold on store rather than mine data ( but that's something that could always happen in 5 years from now if they are desperate or greedy ) as with everything digital trust is the biggest hurdle.
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ProfessorKaos64 Mar 27, 2016
I saw the fork, but is there a reply for their main source code?
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Andrei (b1nzy) from Discord here, I'd be happy to answer any questions or address any concerns. This is still a super alpha version of the Linux client, we're actively working on getting feature parity with our other desktop clients in the coming weeks.
For a repo, the product isn't currently open source so there isn't one. XNBlanks repo was an (awesome) wrapper around our web version, but didn't have a lot of the internal native code we use for things like global hotkeys, better voice quality, etc.
We're extremely adamant on keeping the core product of Discord free forever, so you shouldn't fret over whether we're going to make you pay for the stuff we've already released; it's not gonna happen.
For encryption, you don't have to believe us telling you that stuff is encrypted, just take a look at our API docs (which will be dropping in the next couple weeks) or all the open-source libraries that implement both our API and voice layers. Right now we use SSL across the board for any communication, and nacl/libsodium for encrypting voice data.
For a repo, the product isn't currently open source so there isn't one. XNBlanks repo was an (awesome) wrapper around our web version, but didn't have a lot of the internal native code we use for things like global hotkeys, better voice quality, etc.
We're extremely adamant on keeping the core product of Discord free forever, so you shouldn't fret over whether we're going to make you pay for the stuff we've already released; it's not gonna happen.
For encryption, you don't have to believe us telling you that stuff is encrypted, just take a look at our API docs (which will be dropping in the next couple weeks) or all the open-source libraries that implement both our API and voice layers. Right now we use SSL across the board for any communication, and nacl/libsodium for encrypting voice data.
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Hi, Andrei.
Could we get an RPM package for RedHat/Fedora made available?
Could we get an RPM package for RedHat/Fedora made available?
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Some of my friends are starting to use Discord, and I wanted to download the app, but can't find it.
Is there only the web app left? Has the Linux client been canceled?
Even though Discord isn't open source, you could still provide a ppa, like webupd8 does this for Sublime Text (https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/sublime-text-3)
Is there only the web app left? Has the Linux client been canceled?
Even though Discord isn't open source, you could still provide a ppa, like webupd8 does this for Sublime Text (https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/sublime-text-3)
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I just tried it; seems pretty good so far...
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-discord-on-linux
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-discord-on-linux
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