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Personally, I wish the desktop client was a bit more lightweight. I understand why they went with Electron, and I don't think they could have afforded their spe
by 3PS 5y ago
Personally, I wish the desktop client was a bit more lightweight. I understand why they went with Electron, and I don't think they could have afforded their speed of iterated development as a small company otherwise, but I still wish their app was a bit lighter on my laptop. I'm especially disappointed that cordless [1], a very usable third-party terminal-based client for Discord, was banned due to a ToS violation.
Secondly, I wish there was better support for E2E encryption, even just in direct messages. I wouldn't even mind it as a paid feature.
- MawKKe 5y agoSimiliar issue with the browser client. I observed it eating away 40% cpu doing...nothing? I can't do anything else with my laptop If I want to be heard or understood by others
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoYet Discord still provides a richer feature set with less browser UI lag than Zulip.
- swiley 5y agoIt really is amazing how absolutely terrible the enterprise grade discord competitors are. At least webex seems to finally have a working audio test button.
- herbst 5y agoAs someone who uses discord as chat only (if even), their CPU (and partly RAM usage) is simply not excusable. And Audio & Video are not argument for such a bloated client either, well done WebRTC is everything but bloated.
- uncletaco 5y agoand with this lightweightness the ability to customize the client more, maybe even create popouts to monitor multiple chats simultaneously or do one server per window.
- sellyme 5y agoUnfortunately software companies now view customisability as a bad thing, as their priority is profit, and that often involves making the client less usable. Discord wouldn't be able to periodically shift around the UI to make you accidentally click on the "Gift Nitro" button if they had to respect the layout you customised.
- throwaway3699 5y agoWhy would moving the UI about result in 'accidental revenue'? We're not talking about ads here.
- sellyme 5y agoI'm just as confused as you are as to why anyone on the planet would click where the "attach image" button used to be, see a popup for gifting Nitro, and go "sure, let's do that instead", but evidently Discord thinks that at least some people are going to do that, or else they wouldn't have made such an absurdly hostile change in the first place. Presumably they're banking on people who would have gifted Nitro in the first place but were just unaware of the feature.
- lightbulbjim 5y agoI wish I could choose my own font!