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Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face!
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I don't see any animations at all unless someone has posted a gif. Channels are a core feature, as on many similar platforms.
If it's continually giving you issues with devices and authentication, it's probably due to a misconfiguration in your browser, e.g. you have it set to clear cookies on exit, or you have device access permission blocked.
It happens with the actual app as well. So no. And other apps have no problems identifying my audio devices. This is simply a common issue with Discord on Linux, among many others that they don't bother fixing.