Really annoying!
for me it wanted one after i added too many friends at once
it some agressive anti spam “ai” that more or less randomly decides if it wants a phone number or not
There was a server I poked around in once that required members to provide phone number just to join. Seems very unethical considering all the bad things that can happen from identity theft or stalking… it’s not like mods are employees for Discord. They’re just random mofos. Why would I trust a stranger on the Internet of all places?
The server owners cannot see your phone number. It’s just a way to keep bots and assholes out most of the time.
The server owners can’t see your phone number. Discord allows you to set a minimum verification level for users in your server. The lowest is simply having a verified email on their account. The highest is a verified email, a few minutes old (so no brand new accounts), been in the server for a few minutes, and a verified phone number. It’s just a bot prevention thing, because spammers/scammers are a big issue on large Discord servers. Especially early in Discord’s history, it was a big issue where bots would raid a server and just totally shut it down with spam links. So Discord started allowing server owners to set minimum verification levels before users could interact and send messages.
Say the word!
I hope Mozilla launches the Firefox Relay phone masking soon…
It’s a shame that spacebar and revolt did not really take off so far.
this is the first time I’ve heard of spacebar
Yeah, that’s the problem - none has. Sadly I also only read about it here in a previous post about discord a few months ago.
What’s really annoying as well, is that if you try to remove your phone number from your account, your account will get blocked for “suspicious activity”, after doing the required captchas it will get unlocked but your phone number is still there, trying to remove it again will just lock your account again, how is that legal?
For what it’s worth I literally just removed my phone number from my account after reading your comment and it did it no problem. Haven’t gotten any suspicious account alerts yet but if I get one I’ll come back and update.
Because legal people get the protection of the law, shiti organics are there to be abused by legal people.
What the FUCK.
I immediately went to settings and, I guess at some point I’d already given these swine my phone number? Went to remove it and I’ve greeted by this wonderful toast message=
God I wish something was fully suitable as an easy discord replacement 😭 spacebar seems rad if it wasn’t super alpha. And as cool as element is, it just doesn’t have the same low bar to entry that discord has (not to mention group calls are jank as hell, when they work, and there’s no screen share yet tragically)…
Just change your number to something like 07777777777. That will work for the UK.
It doesn’t work for me because it asks for a code ):
We should do code swaps.
This might be because you’re on vpn. Try a public wifi at school, library, coffee shop or something.
YMMV . Created my account using vpn , basicly never used it while not connected to it , not once I’ve gotten phone verification prompt
Dunno exact conditions for it to show up , kinda paranoid about it
I got locked out of my old discord account because I didn’t have a phone at the time
Stop using trash service
What are some alternatives for discord??
Matrix is the main one I think
Matrix is great but it’s got the same problem as ever l every other communication service, it’s only useful when other people are on it.
I use it and encourage my friends to but they just look at me like I’m crazy
This 100%. Calling is also super iffy in my experience (element / schildichat), and group calls are a non-starter, since it outsources them to a separate service, jitsi, embedded inside the element client.
Matrix also isn’t great, tbh. Way to much complexity baked into the protocol which makes the UX horrid
Spacebar.chat (or github here) is meant to be a drop-in replacement with support for discord bots, but it has been super alpha the few times I’ve tried it. Haven’t checked in for a few months though!
(Edit: yeah I just checked and spacebar is still very much a work in progress. Looks extremely promising though!! It seems there are devs posting updates on the main spacebar instance, which is cool)
Rocket.chat also has a self hostable option, but I don’t recall that one being super great either.
Team speak but that shit wont fly with Genz
It does the job though.
If group is private ie people you actually know, then just use signal it works fine enough
Look, the lesson here is not to be bullied by corporate asshats, and they always do this.
So might as well pick an open source service like mumble/murmur.
(i never understood why there was this big migration from teamspeak to discord…)
TeamSpeak required paying for a server. Discord worked out of the box
I checked their site and it looks like you can download the teamspeak server binary for free, even TS6 beta! Or did I miss something here?
Yea the part where Discord blew up 10 years ago because you don’t need to host a server
It is (or has already?) Going to receive a face-lift. That might help out a little bit honestly.
It has had one, TeamSpeak 5 and now they are adding screen-sharing with TeamSpeak 6. I think they would have held a good market if they worked on an upgrade sooner, they only released a beta for TS5 once Discord had gotten super popular. If they were more proactive I think most of us would be using TeamSpeak instead now. It’s just borderline impossible to convince people to move service.
Id swap but it’s not comparable yet sadly. Hopefully ts6server is released soon. Sadly I won’t get to use it as my friends won’t swap unless the mobile app works well. If the ts3 app works together with a ts6 server. Maybe.
Their site has a download page for the ts6 beta, client and server! There’s even a Linux client!
It is a trade off vs scammers
The reason I don’t have a Google account.
discord’s been doing this for a while, it’s really scummy
other companies that do this:
- twitter (even before muskrat bought it)
- probably a lot more
Just after Elon Musk’s twitter (𝕏) made it a norm~
Year of Elements/Matrix when?
I really like using Element, but there are so many issues besides the not so intuitive account system, that deters the average user
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