Seriously, chats and servers previously being as far away from the thumb as possible was a terrible design. The new one is much cleaner and simpler imo

Same it's different, but it's not a bad different. And it's not on the level of reddit where they basically strong armed third-party with cost to quit them from making apps.

A big big problem is accessibility. The new themes are all worse for the eyes than the previous ones and there's been complaints of vision issues. My fiancé had to install a third party discord client because the actual discord one makes their head spin on every theme.

Also on a more personal note, I really hate that the dms are separated from the servers. My favorite aspect of discord is that knowledge transfers between platforms. It feels like I'm using discord and not discord mobile and then also discord desktop. Now it's all fucky and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to even see who was in the server (it's in the top left, the area furthest from the average person's reach).

It's also apparently really buggy and noticeably slower. Earlier I sent a pic into a server and it just silently sent to my most recent DM instead. After a search I found I'm not the only one that had.this happen either.

I really don't like this update. Dark mode is now a different, darker color which I'm not too fond of. My muscle memory is completely useless. Viewing server members is now all the way up at the top instead of being conveniently behind a swipe. Swiping between tabs is weird (it's not really swiping between tabs, it's more like the back button Android already has, so it's redundant). The activities menu at the top is a waste of space. The search function is harder to use now, you have to click a little button at the top to filter your search results. Chat pins also don't show image, links, or file previews now. Plus, Discord Mobile and desktop shared a similar user experience, so anyone could just pick up from the desktop version and be able to figure it out very quickly, now you can't do that anymore. So much functionality and convenience just completely gone now. This might be the worst update I've ever seen for a messaging app, and it's not even close.

My biggest problem is that searches don't fucking work anymore. It now defaults to searching the channel you're in, but what if I'm look for a particular message and I don't know what channel it's in? Then there's also searching PMs is so much more complicated now and doesn't even show you who sent the message in the results.