Discord Discourse

Well, folks, something I thought I’d never be able to say is that I’m on Discord now. I got a bit of a wild hair yesterday evening/night. A friend and I were discussing CAPTCHA solving add-ons for various browsers. So I grabbed a couple of them but they didn’t help me with hCAPTCHA, mainly, I think, because the Discord program doesn’t open in any browser. At any rate, I was finally able to solve a text-based challenge. It took me many tries as the questions were quite tricky. One has to go down below the image-based one and there’s a button that says something like learn more about hCAPTCHA’s accessibility options and choose the second option to get started with the text-based challenge. There are three pages of questions, one on each page, and when you finish the third question you hit verify answers.

That, though, was only the first big hurtle. Because I live in a country other than the United States the combo box kept jumping back to the States when I’d set it on Germany. When I finally did get it to stay on Germany, it took some doing to get the country code to show up. Then I had to figure out how to get my phone number in the right way. Finally the six-digit verification code came to my phone and I was able to get completely verified.

That second verification looks like another CAPTCHA but when you get started on it it’ll say verify by phone.

Wow, what a process! It was definitely not the easiest thing I ever did.

Now for the learning curve, oh boy!

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  1. Disabling Auto Start on Discord Launch
    • For Windows, open the Discord app and go to Settings > Windows Settings and toggle the switch off next to Open Discord.
    • Alternatively for Windows, open Task Manager and go to Startup/Startup apps > Discord > Disable.
    • In some cases, Discord will be listed as Update by GitHub. If you don’t see "Discord", check for this name instead.

  2. A behavior that puzzles me a bit is that sometimes Discord starts when my computer does and sometimes not. It doesn’t show up in the list of start up apps so I’m not sure how to stop it from occasionally doing this.

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