Apparently we can’t have a civil discussion here without arrogant assholes inserting themselves into the conversation so they can gaslight us. This has become as bad as reddit.

If you want to discuss the problems with discord, then take it to tumblr, I guess.

I’m done here. Peace to most of you who were nice, and to the few who weren’t, I hope I never see you around again. Bye.

  • Melody Fwygon@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    The bug is definitely known; and a fix is probably being worked on.

    But I will say that it does in fact turn on the setting.

  • huginn@feddit.it
    17·
    1 year ago

    This was enabled because you enabled it. Nobody else is experiencing this my guy.

    If you didn’t give it permission it can’t read contacts. That’s an explicit permission request on both iOS and Android: You can’t just scrape someone’s contacts.

    • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep. I can’t even see why, probably something in the stuff they deleted. How bizarre!

      • Nyanix@lemmy.ca
        4·
        1 year ago

        This particular OP tends to be fairly contentious, I’m surprised Beehaw didn’t ever take action on his account.

        • Melody Fwygon@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Beehaw doesn’t ban you for having an opinion loudly.

          What it does address typically is when users are horrifically disrespectful or rude…which usually the OP was not.

          I guess they just reached their limit of patience.

  • Briict@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t switch on for me but I only launched the new UI once. After I realized it was different and animating page transitions (which I have disabled in my android settings, meaning it felt super slow), I had a little bit of a reee moment and uninstalled their client and downloaded an alt client.

  • FlumPHP@programming.dev
    5·
    1 year ago

    The “Sync Contacts” setting is weird. You can toggle it on, but it doesn’t gain or ask for the OS permissions on Android. There’s a brief message saying you have to give it the permission. No idea why they didn’t just use the built in SDK to ask for the permission.

  • DaGeek247@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I checked my discord, and i think this is a case of discords shitty ui, not changing privacy settings. Yes, my checkbox in that exact location was allowing other people to find based on phone number contamination. However, when i visited the privacy page that i did know existed, that permission was still turned off for me.

    • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m not 100% in the loop on things they’ve done, but I think the main thing is that there are better alternatives out there such as Signal for keeping in touch with friends and family, but oftentimes those friends/family just don’t want to have yet another messaging app so it leaves you needing Discord to keep in touch.

    • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      Largely owned by tencent afaik, putting things that are QoL and somewhat accessibility behind paywalls (like themes are a nitro only thing), do nothing against the spam bot malware thing (and they can scan the messages, since you can set the nsfw filter on them), not searchable outside of the app so things can get lost easily, their audio function is somewhat known to be problematic (for me it „catches“ the full audio out without software in between, so game sound or Netflix or whatever gets cut off completely). Those are what I can think of quickly. I am also not knowledgeable enough to accurately judge their software in terms of performance, but it feels very bad to me.

      • ReCursing@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I use servers extensively, for several communities (some small like my weekly RPG game servers and my book club, some much bigger like the AI art servers I’m on), all of which have multiple channels which are used for different things. Correct me if I’m wrong but afaik Signal (and Molly which I’d previously not heard of) doesn’t do that

        It being closed source is unfortunate, not being very privacy friendly is certainly not good but I don’t think there have been any major leaks have there?

      • beefcat@beehaw.org
        4·
        1 year ago

        both of those alternatives are missing so many features Discord has that i wouldn’t really call them alternatives, especially many of the core features that make Discord Discord.

  • Aatube@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Mine didn’t have it enabled, but I think it’s because I denied its contacts permission request on iOS. That’s probably why some people don’t have it.

  • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for this. It was on for me and I am the same as you with regards to apps getting to read my contacts.

    For context I am in the EU and am using an iPhone.

      • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        I also unticked the two things below, which told me I can’t get experimental features if I do so. Who knows how they label stuff internally, maybe they have something new in regards to contact scanning and we got „volunteered for testing“?

        Am also with you in the situation that discord isn’t my first choice, but one big community I engage in is there.