Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Verge - Culture Posts

The Verge - Culture Posts


Discord adds text chat directly inside your voice channels

Posted: 01 Jun 2022 08:00 AM PDT

Discord's Star Badger video is a Star Fox parody that shows how Text Chat in Voice Channels works. | Image: Discord

Discord is enabling a new dedicated text chat feature for voice channels. Users of the platform can take advantage of the new feature, aptly named Text Chat in Voice Channels, by clicking on a new chat bubble icon for the voice channel they are participating in. The feature is a welcome quality of life change, similar to the chat window in Zoom calls that many are used to in this day and age.

All non-community servers have Text Chat in Voice Channels enabled by default, while servers that have community enabled (under Server Settings > Community) have a period of time to opt into the feature before it enables automatically on all servers by June 29th.

Image: Discord
Demonstration of Text Chat in Voice Channels.
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The TweetDeck Mac app will go away on July 1st

Posted: 01 Jun 2022 07:25 AM PDT

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Just a few months after Twitter spent $40 million to acquire TweetDeck in 2011, it launched new HTML5 apps for the browser, Windows, and Mac. Now, with Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter still looming, and an edit button incoming, the web browser version will be all that's left. Twitter shut down TweetDeck's Windows app in 2016, versions for iOS, Android, and Adobe Air went away in 2013, and now the Mac version is set to disappear after July 1st.

In a tweet, the team said the change is happening "to focus on making TweetDeck even better and testing our new Preview." Twitter power users who use the app to monitor different feeds of information got the message via a banner notification this morning. Twitter has been publicly testing an...

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