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I'm not a fan of Discord but I think you're mistaken.

Right click on the channel icon and go to 'Notification Settings' rather than clicking on 'Server Mute'. From there you can choose whether a mention (inc./ex. @everyone/@here) counts and whether mobile notifications are enabled.

As for the client you may want to try Ripcord[0]. It uses less memory though I'm not sure you can mute people the same way. While I don't think it's ever enforced, technically using other clients is against the Discord ToS.

Either way there are plenty of reasons not to use Discord if you can.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

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There is no way to mute "Role Pings" on Discord currently. You can mute @here/@everyone/@your name, but if you are assigned a role and that is pinged, it goes through.

That is one of my main gripes with Discord, in addition to:

1. Uploading photos/videos through the mobile app stops if you lock your phone or background the app. No other modern app exhibits this behavior.

2. Blocking users shows a large "BLOCKED" message, with no option to truly block them.

I have channels full of “1 blocked message” messages, thanks to people using stupid pointless chat bots. That is one feature I wish they could implement differently (the idea being that you can click the “blocked message” message to see the content of the blocked message)

Thanks for the ripcord suggestion!

As far as server/channel mute - believe me, I have tried every option, including your suggestions. It works for most servers but I have 2 that I can't mute no matter what I try.

There's also an issue that there doesn't seem to be any way to mute @ mentions of roles you're assigned to. So if a server admin assigns you to a role and then mentions that role you'll get a notification even if server mute is on and suppress @everyone and @here is on.

I wonder if this is the reason I am still getting notifications on 2 servers. It sounds plausible, as they are game related servers, so quite possible I was assigned a role. I don't recall investigating this, although it is several months ago since I last tried solving mute issue.

This does not solve my mute issue, but great to know that this might be the cause! Thanks for this.

Yeah. You can mute @everyone and @username, but you cannot mute @role. It's really irritating in lots of gaming servers where they assign roles by game rank or something similar.

Isn't using a 3rd party client like that against the ToS and could get you banned?

The question is: is it detectable and do the devs care?

I have EVERYTHING notification-wise turned off. I still get @everyone message pings on desktop client in channels I have explicitly muted and turned off notifications for.

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