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.

  • huginn@feddit.it
    22·
    11 months 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.

        • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          I did not have it updated! I was on 192 something. However, I just updated it now and checked and the settings are still not enabled. So it did not change my settings on me. I previously had them disabled and they are still disabled after update.

            • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
              8·
              11 months ago

              Tinfoil hat time, but there’s a possibility it does flip the setting for some users but not all. If they unilaterally changed a privacy setting to just take and share data it would get SLAMMED. But if it’s just like… 1/3 of the users and everyone else says no, that’s not happening then they can get away with a lot. Not saying that’s what’s happening. But I’m not saying it’s not what’s happening.

  • FlumPHP@programming.dev
    11·
    11 months 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.

    • Link.wav [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
      4·
      11 months ago

      This whole thing is weird. Two people have commented saying it’s not enabled for them, but I feel certain I didn’t enable it myself, and it was enabled for me after the latest update.

      Edit: Someone in a discord server said it wasn’t enabled for them either so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
        6·
        11 months ago

        It was disabled for me.

        Stranger still, the other screenshot you posted did have the “Allow contacts to add me” checkbox checked, but it only appears when you tap “Add Friends.” When you leave that screen and return, the checkbox is always checked. It makes me think it’s a setting solely applicable to that screen, like just for the “Find Friends” button, and not to your profile as a whole. IDK if that even makes sense.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        5·
        11 months ago

        It was enabled for me and I’m very glad I saw this post so I could disable it. I would have never known it existed.

          • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’m in Washington State. Perhaps it’s something else. I had Nitro and canceled it this year. I don’t remember turning off this specific setting but maybe I did and it’s kept it since? My phone is a S21. I’ve had my Discord account since Dec 2015. The only thing I can think of is that I’ve used my Discord account in California which has slightly different privacy laws than the USA.

    • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      So like, while we’re here.

      I feel like this style of leaving closed or abandoned threads like this up is… not great.

      The front page is slow enough when it’s just Beehaw that one post like this really kinda sticks out. I feel like as a smaller community it might be better when something like this happens to like, delete the thread after a certain length of time so it doesn’t show up at all.

    • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      11 months ago

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

      • Nyanix@lemmy.ca
        12·
        11 months 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·
          11 months 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.

  • DaGeek247@kbin.social
    8·
    11 months 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.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
    6·
    11 months ago

    What the hell did you guys do to OP to make him throw a fit and delete a post over… discord?

    Though I can confirm that sync contacts was enabled and I do not recall ever having done so, so there’s my two cents

  • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    11 months 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
        3·
        11 months 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.

  • Melody Fwygon@beehaw.org
    6·
    11 months 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.

  • Aatube@kbin.social
    5·
    11 months 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.

  • ReCursing@kbin.social
    5·
    11 months ago

    I know ideally one wouldn’t use Discord at all

    Why? What have they done that I am unaware of?

    • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      11 months 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.

      • ReCursing@kbin.social
        5·
        11 months 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
        2·
        11 months 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.

    • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      11 months 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.

  • Zak8022@lemm.ee
    4·
    11 months ago

    Just to throw in my two cents… I’m on iOS version 207 (which appears to be the latest) and this setting was not on for me.

  • Briict@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    11 months 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.

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Oh man those animations, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to notice how slow they were. Turning them off helped increase the speed of navigation, but there’s still some delay when tapping the DM’s bottom bar item specifically. App settings are also in a super unintuitive place now.