Give me a minute. My spelling is so bad spell check doesn't know what the hell I'm typing.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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Worse still when it comes up for a while, goes away, comes up again, goes away...
They’re looking up the spelling of a word.
One of the most stressful online experiences I've had was me constantly realizing everyone in the discord sees me typing and assumes I'm typing up a novel of some kind and respond in kind whilst I'm in the midst of trying my hardest to type out my thoughts that as my shit eyes refuse to play along with. Some people would assume I was a "foreigner" given the amount of typos.
One of many reasons I came to the conclusion that discord just isn't for me. I experienced nothing but contention using that platform. Maybe it's in the name itself eh?
They might have changed it but the last time I used discord, there was no way to turn of the typing indicator. That blew my mind at the time, in the age of "mental illness" of which we currently reside in.
I personally turn off even the read tags. I can't live with it.
This is the way
Does having the keyboard open register as typing?
Or, on desktop, does clicking on the text box register as typing? Or clicking anywhere else in the application window? And after I stop typing, how long does that "typing..." indicator keep displaying? Does it have a five-second cooldown or something? Or is that really a live indicator of every keystroke?
This is all probably entirely dependent on the individual app. I do not think there is some established standard that all apps follow. And I figure the only way to know for sure how any given app behaves is for you to have two devices open and chatting with each other so you can note what happens.