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I quit Facebook lately and moved to Discord for my group chats, cause we already had the channels from gaming.

It is good, but we all have trouble with the notifications. (this has nothing to do with react native but you are here and this is a gripe). Like if you have it running on a computer it doesn't come to your phone. So we have tons of miss-communication for stuff like "yo I am drinking near your house meet-up". Discord just sits running all the time on your PC, which for most is running all the time. So I stopped using it for time sensitive messages which sucks. I would never dare use it for a "Hey I am buzzing outside your house answer". You literally have no idea where the notification for the person is going to go. FB-Messenger never had this issue.

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My biggest issue with notifications on Android is that when I tap on them, they rarely take me to the same server, channel, and location where the notifications came from which leads to me trying to hunt them down from the brief time that I saw them.

My group of friends did the same thing, we moved from group texts (Which became a huge mess) to Slack — not because we like it better than Discord or anything, mostly we're using Slack for work anyway, so it made sense to make a group there.

Works a lot better than group texts, and with better file sharing to boot. We'll still text each other for 1:1 conversations where we're not near a computer.

We'd switch to Discord if Slack's free offering is ever gimped.

That's strange. I've never had that problem.

I keep Discord running on my desktop at work, plus I tend to have browser windows connected to it on my both my desktop and laptop at work. I still get phone notifications.

Basically just needs idle tracking.

It does have that. No idea why it wouldn't work for GP. If I lock my computer, or don't look at the Discord tab for a few minutes, my phone gets notifications.

Just to add my experience, I feel like it's hit or miss. It seems like I get notifications with zero issues. Then I'll randomly have a week or two in a row where I don't get notifications or get 50% of them. Not sure why this happens, but I use Discord as my only means of contact with multiple people.

Interesting. For what it's worth I am using Discord on Mac Safari (not TP), Win Chrome 69 (dev channel), and iOS. In one year I have not had any of the issues mentioned above. Perhaps using the desktop app can introduce problems.

Yeah it just doesn't work well for me or my friends we are always complaining. I don't know why and I don't really want to have nerd out with my chat app (just want it to work!).

As for using Slack, I am too scared of dropping 3am Friday/Saturday messages in my work chat instead of my group chat so keep separate apps.

Not an expect but as I understand it the Windows API for idle tracking is sometimes wonky.

Certain programs can keep your computer in a non-idle state indefinitely even if you don't move the mouse.

I've had similar problems with Linux.

Having the Slack Linux desktop client open means I don't get any notifications, even when I'm away from my computer.

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