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> What’s actually using all that? Background processes from first and third-party software and from Windows 10 itself. When you click the cross to close Discord

> What’s actually using all that? Background processes from first and third-party software and from Windows 10 itself. When you click the cross to close Discord, for example, it doesn’t actually close. It operates in the background and doing so requires using system resources. I think Discord, Skype, Telegram and co are made with electron thus the memory issues. Great for iterating, horrible for cheap laptops. The article itself isn't really interesting though, because not really technical as to what the issue is exactly.

exciteabletom 5y ago
Telegram runs on qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  Or optionally on Cocoa and UWP, which are even more “native” on their respective platforms: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/ https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/ https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram I’m a huge fan of Telegram’s model of releasing a cross-platform core for the community to build their own clients on top of. I wish all chat apps followed its lead.
weird-eye-issue 5y ago
I installed Discord recently on a new laptop and first thing I did was turn off that behavior. I already have the option to minimize it
syshum 5y ago
One of the things that would go along way to address this is Open Protocols or Open API's Go back to the days where you could have 1 client and connect to ICQ, AIM, GChat, etc etc etc all in 1 program People should not need to have Skype, Teams, Telgram, Discord and Slack all running on their computers at the same time
- seanp2k2 5y ago
  hauls our old grindstone of GChat refusing to do XMPP federation Pretty sure this was the start of the downfall. If we had a time machine, go back and convince the Google and Facebook PMs / mgmt who made the decision to not try to extend / support XMPP, maybe the world would be different today. I wonder if one could quantify how much global warming was caused by those decisions.

exciteabletom 5y ago

Telegram runs on qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party

kitsunesoba 5y ago
Or optionally on Cocoa and UWP, which are even more “native” on their respective platforms: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/ https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/ https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram I’m a huge fan of Telegram’s model of releasing a cross-platform core for the community to build their own clients on top of. I wish all chat apps followed its lead.

weird-eye-issue 5y ago

I installed Discord recently on a new laptop and first thing I did was turn off that behavior. I already have the option to minimize it

syshum 5y ago

One of the things that would go along way to address this is Open Protocols or Open API's Go back to the days where you could have 1 client and connect to ICQ, AIM, GChat, etc etc etc all in 1 program People should not need to have Skype, Teams, Telgram, Discord and Slack all running on their computers at the same time

seanp2k2 5y ago
hauls our old grindstone of GChat refusing to do XMPP federation Pretty sure this was the start of the downfall. If we had a time machine, go back and convince the Google and Facebook PMs / mgmt who made the decision to not try to extend / support XMPP, maybe the world would be different today. I wonder if one could quantify how much global warming was caused by those decisions.