Simply imagine that the user thought that, by clicking the "X" button, he closed the app and got off the vocal channel so that now nobody can hear him. Now a close relative ask him some other personnal info that he don't want to share (Health info, credit card etc..), and other people in the vocal channel hear it. Well, the user has been harmed.
So yeah, not about "disliking the UI" but about protecting you, the user
Do most users think that, though? I remember chat apps minimising to the tray bar since MSN Messenger and Skype, possibly earlier, and it's a common feature in most current ones, as well as in other applications.
Now, it's true that some other chat apps display a floating panel to remind you that you're still in voice chat, but Discord's target audience is videogame players that don't want their media covered by such panel anyway, and most other chat apps let you close or disable such panel as well. Game consoles don't do so either.
I agree with the other points in the case, but this UX design being a GDPR issue makes it clear these people are out of touch with the market.
If you click on the "x" on a open tab, it will most likely close it. If you click on the "x" on your browser, it will close the browser, maybe will it alert you that you're going to close many things.
Open Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word, Notepad, your Windows file explorer, same thing.
Those are probably the most used app in the world, so people will assume that it is what the "x" button does.
But if I click X on my email client, it keeps receiving email; if I click X on my torrent app or JDownloader, they keep downloading; if I click X on Steam, it keeps updating my games; and if I click X on a chat application, it keeps receiving messages and, yes, usually keeps voice chat open.
And BTW, browser tabs sadly do stay open in a twisted way: notifications, often malicious for the kind of users that accept the prompts without reading.
It is the wanted behaviour, of course, but I don't find it weird that having a message explaining it the first time you close the window should be mandatory.
All you've done here is repeat their reasoning for why they dislike the UI.
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How is this UI design? Wouldn't this fall under UX or just basic functionality? I press X, program close. If I want it minimized I press the minimize button.
They keep bothering me to pay for Nitro and just pushed a notification that they've added new payment options for my country, so they're clearly targeting the EU market.
And arrest you in case of visiting place within Chinese jurisdiction.
Unfun fact: there were multiple cases of people getting arrested after plane performed unexpected emergency landing in a country where landing was not planned. Both where arrest was justified and where it was not.
As a business? For sure. Not for every aspect of Chinese law, but for relevant ones and with enforcement in China or through mutual agreements with other governments.
This kind of comment is disappointing.
It shows a major lack of understanding of how law and businesses work, coated in a huge layer of outrage, all wrapped up in a Twitter-length type comment.
Sure shady people will dream up all sorts of fancy money laundering schemes to make it looks like there is no transfers but those are already illegal as fraud on both side of the Atlantic with potential jail times.
The EU don't have to block any content to efficiently enforce GDPR against US companies trying to market profitably in the EU.
The EU GDP is about 75% of the US one, it's a huge market.