Tag: discord

gael-of-the-dank-soul:

mormonfries:

mormonfries:

Discord changed their TOS to disallow class-action lawsuits and enforce arbitration. It’s possible to opt out but you have to email them at arbitration-opt-out@discord.com with the email you signed up with, within 30 days. The devs are spinning it as protection from frivolous suits, but in all likelihood it’s a precursor to a move toward selling your personal info like other social media sites.

if you need an explanation of why arbitration is bad see below

https://consumerist.com/2014/02/25/why-you-should-opt-out-of-forced-arbitration-in-3-sentences/

Here’s a useful copypasta from redditors 3ybex and CreatorKami (Compiled by me)

Dear Discord,

By this email, I am opting out of the agreement to arbitrate as authorized by the new changes to the Discord Terms of Service Agreement.

I DO NOT AGREE TO THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE FOR THE ACCOUNT(S) LISTED/DESCRIBED BELOW:

XXXXX#XXXX (Your discord name and #number), and in the event I should change my username or discriminator, ID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXX (Your e-mail)
+X XXX-XXX-XXXX (Your SMS/Phone and country-code. +1 for United States)

Please let me know immediately if there is additional information needed to implement my opt-out request. Finally, I would like to ask for a written confirmation that you have received and processed this notice.

Sincerely,
XXXXX XXXXX

To find your ID, follow CreatorKami’s instructions below:

“The reason being, if you change your username or the 4 digit discriminator after your name, this email is no longer valid in a legal court of law because it isn’t the same anymore as what you sent in your opt-out. The only ID that is unchanging between each Discord account is the hidden ID. I’m sure most people know where to find it, but just in case, go to your settings > appearance, turn on Developer Mode, and then right click your own name in a server userlist. At the very bottom, you’ll see the option to Copy ID.”

Discord’s Inaccessible

houseburning:

lb-lee:

Spreading the word from @okami-no-mure.  They said:

So. Discord, the wildly popular chat program isn’t accessible for
visually impaired persons. Not even the phone app is accessible.

People
have put up requests for accessibility, but the devs call it a “quality
of life"feature, and actually had the balls to suggest to a totally
blind Mac user that he should just use Zoom instead of Voiceover. For
those of you who don’t know, Zoom is a program that greatly increases
the size of text. So, it’s the equivalent of telling a deaf person to
just turn their computer volume up.

But, they say that if they
can get enough upvotes, then they’ll consider the feature. So, I’m going
to share their idea, because I’ve been fighting with Discord all day
because literally nothing is accessible beyond creating an account and
changing a few user settings and all of us are frustrated.

So, if
people would be so kind as to upvote this feature request or leave
comments that say you think that an app which has a focus on community
shouldn’t segregate part of that community, we’d be mighty grateful.

Here is the request page.

please, if you use discord at all, just hop over, log in, and upvote that link. it’s unbelievable that a text-and-voice chat client is inaccessible to the visually impared because the developers can’t be bothered to add in the extra code. and they don’t even consider it a priority to add features to increase their own userbase. please upvote, even if you don’t leave a comment!