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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

Slaps roof of Electron

This bad boy can fit so much fucking Javascript in it.

[-] outofemailaliases 9 points 1 year ago

i can confirm that my arch install does not have any electron apps! i just keep 8 tabs open at all times and use a billion workspace to try and forget about my CPU idling at 5%

[-] jenniebuckley@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

the way this isn't even in my top 50 issues with Discord. i finally quit using it this July because it isn't enjoyable and I feel the life has been sucked out of it. there are much better alternatives popping up now including Matrix and Revolt which are my new go-to chat apps

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

The main problem is what the people you actually want to talk to are using. I still have to keep Facebook cucking Messanger installed to talk to one friend group.

[-] SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 9 points 1 year ago

matrix bridges :)

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago
[-] jenniebuckley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

all the people I actually gave a shit about from Discord use Revolt now so it's not an issue I've had to deal with thankfully lol

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

I think you underestimate just how difficult making a app like discord fast is. It's quite impressive how well it works tbh

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

element do it, and do better, it's just company wanting money but don't want to spend money fixing it, that's why it's electron, and not other better alternative, it's cheap and easy to develop, not fast

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

You must be in only tiny rooms because element absolutely dies when joining anything busy. They recently implement sliding sync to help mitigate this.

Also yeah, the discord desktop app is garbage, I'll admit, but I'm talking about the website

[-] ShittyKopper 8 points 1 year ago

tbf that's partly matrix the protocol being inefficient as fuck. element the client can't really fix that.

whose idea was it to synchronize the entire fucking history of a channel to every individual instance? for a chat app?

(yeah the matrix guys want to be a global federated generic data store and not a chat app i know, but all this has ended up with is a mediocre chat app and a few toy projects nobody cares about)

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

i guess maybe it's was the same problem with lemmy, only small instances and communities exists, and small money incentive, so they can't do much to make it better?

[-] ShittyKopper 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

matrix is being used by several (mainly european) government agencies. element (as in the for-profit company spun off from the matrix foundation) has the money, it's just they're compromising on the wrong stuff as they're aiming to be a mediocre "do everything" protocol rather than a good chat protocol

[-] newcockroach@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Bro is there a fediverse alternative to discord with voice chat and msging etc pkg

[-] filgas08@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

matrix is the most known one, it has all of discord's feature, but I don't know about voice.

[-] person4268@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it supports it through jitsi meet i think for group chats, but 1 on 1 it seems to do something different, though it’s been a while since I tested (this is all in Element, btw)

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Cool, let me just tell my 10+ servers with a combined thousands of people to move right on over.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

There's revolt.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Since when did people stop liking Discord? It's still so much better than any of the chat clients that came before it. I have never had any issues with it for what I use it for.

I will never go back to the days of Skype, ventrilo, or TeamSpeak. Slow, worse ui/ux, and less feature rich from what I can remember.

Also, why would use Discord's website?

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I stopped liking discord the very first time I launched the application and saw what a piece of shit it was.

[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

people stopped liking discord when they got to use slack or teams and see what a professional chat product looks like.

not that people really love slack or teams either, but they are miles ahead of discord in terms of speed and general usability.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Bruh I use Slack for work. If Discord ever create a Enterprise oriented plan with the necessary terms for business use, it's sure as hell I'm going to push for my company to migrate. Discords way of setting up custom channels is a godsend if you're working on a remote first team.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Genuine question since I use Discord mostly for small groups of friends, what are you doing that is causing speed problems? I have never had Discord operate any slower than Teams an I use both daily in different environments.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

When they updated the privacy policy to start spying on voice calls.

[-] realbaconator@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Makussu@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago

There only is the website. Even the app is a website

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The app is just a PWA? I did not know that.

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

Technically it's electron, which is basically chromium with extra steps. It's apparently 64 bit which makes no sense if the main exec is 32 bit.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] awesome_person@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

sadly yeah, there's no mature enough alternatives yet

[-] awesome_person@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

people haven't switched off discord yet because they did nothing to justify switching, just like how must of us stayed on the snoo site until the api changes happened.

it's just an "aaany moment now" for them to do something stupid and get people to move, and with how all of their new changes are going i don't think we have to wait long

[-] ShittyKopper 1 points 1 year ago

it's the only TOS compliant way i can get it to use pipewire screen sharing /shrug

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Lol. In fairness, I imagine Discord and Twitch have a lot of user overlap, and Twitch put some downright brilliant engineering to achieve their speeds.

I wouldn't wish "incoming user just switched tabs from Twitch" on any web developer.

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