advaith

@advaith.bsky.social

👋🏾 im 21 & 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

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

New Webhook button on mobile

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!

a Discord channel list, showing a Pinned Channels section containing #dev-chat, #api-chat, and #api-announcements

The Trump administration has made it increasingly difficult for hospitals to provide pediatric trans care. But instead of consulting parents and legislators, we talked to the actual children whose lives are at stake. Read more from Grace Byron with this gift link: buff.ly/f0SEtXg

Verge headline: Trans teens want to talk about their future
by Grace Byron

Illustration: overlapping silhouettes and soft gradient of a child, a parent, and Donald Trump.

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!

A Discord mobile alert modal:
Ready to start a call?
Enjoy this moment. Then jump in when you're ready.
with Start Call and Cancel buttons

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...

Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying

California 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

eff.org

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

The D20 from the old Discord Linux update screen

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

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.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · 4mo ago

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all…

bots can now use Discord's Search Guild Messages API endpoint! while getting it ready for public use, I fixed some long-standing issues and added new search functionality!