advaith

advaith

@advaith.bsky.social

👋🏾 im 22 & i code stuff. @discord.com apps platform dev. he/him. cannot help with your account/server. made https://bluesky-followers.advaith.io also at mastodon.social/@advaith, @advaithj1 on various platforms, and advaith.io sf bay area / uc santa cruz

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if you live in the Bay Area, please vote yes on the Regional Transit Measure! I rely on public transit, especially BART, and the projected service cuts if RTM doesn't pass will disrupt me a lot.

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Shipped a new feature to stable today Move To... Are you tired of joining a new emoji server and having to drag it alllll the way to the bottom of your server sidebar to get it into the never-to-be-seen-again "emojis" folder? Well. It's finally here.

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File previews are out on mobile! Ever wanted to simply look at a text file on mobile, but instead the app made you download it and open it separately? No longer! If a file is plain text, Discord now shows a button (actor portrayal: ↙️↗️) that opens a modal with the file contents.

I've brought more Server Settings to mobile: now you can access AutoMod settings, Server Template, and Server Insights from your phone!

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Today I shipped a huge change to syntax highlighting in Discord: code blocks and file previews on web are now being highlighted by Tree-sitter, instead of highlight.js.

added some small often-requested features to Discord! • forum threads now have a Jump to Top button on mobile • you can now copy GIF links from the picker (by right-clicking / holding)

bots can now specify allowed file types in both file upload components and slash command attachment options!

advaith@advaith.bsky.social

I've been working on modal components all summer, and I'm really excited to release the first piece of this: string select and label components in modals! You can finally put select menus in your bot's modals, and give more information with field descriptions!

I've done some Discord mobile parity improvements to help when you're out touching grass! - You can now see when a message was edited on mobile! just tap the (edited) tag to see the timestamp - You can now create webhooks on mobile! Set up those pneumatic internet tubes on the go

today is my first day as a full-time employee! after interning and working part-time, I'm now officially full-time on the apps team at Discord, building new features for the developer platform! 🎉

seeing a lot of tweets about Bluesky requiring age verification in Texas, I'm curious why this applies to Bluesky and not all the other social media platforms

always searching for the channels you care about in a large Discord server? you can now pin channels to the top of your channel list in any server, giving you quick access to them!

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my friends and I got frustrated with accidentally calling our group chat, so I added a confirmation step to the call buttons in the mobile DM header!

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California lawmakers are fast-tracking AB 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgAct Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-DestroyingCalifornia lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before

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This, along with the new Linux update experience (no more "It's your lucky day" modal) are now out on stable. You can find download links for all the package formats at discord.com/download

discord.comDownload Discord to Talk, Play, and Hang OutDownload Discord to talk, play, and hang out with friends over voice, video, or text. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android devices, and consoles.
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We also added new package download options: RPM for Fedora and derivatives and .pkg.tar.zst for Arch and derivatives. Links for these have not been posted to our Discord Testing Clients help center page yet, here's the RPM: discord.com/api/download... and pkg.tar.zst: discord.com/api/download...

Discord Linux users, must be your lucky day: you won't be seeing this anymore, the app now auto-updates! it's also now available in rpm and pkg.tar.zst formats, in addition to deb and tar.gz

I don't use reply filters, but twitter's "accounts you follow and who they follow" is a cool option and bsky should probably add that. I get reasons for limiting replies, but it also has problems like reducing valid input, encouraging misinformation, and presumably making people follow just to reply

protip: you can quickly switch between servers and DMs on any Discord app Windows/Linux: ctrl alt → Mac: cmd opt → mobile with Tab Bar: double-tap the Home button mobile with You Bar: swipe right on the bar

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It's okay to hate Meta and wish for its collapse and failure. But the two jury verdicts this week are not the vehicle for that. They're going to have widespread impact across the internet, and will do real damage to every other internet service.