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This might be for the better, but Discord was so infuriating about updates and forcing you to download them what felt like 50% of the time I opened it, I gave up and just use it in Ungoogled Chromium now. I'm pretty sure within a few months I ended up having 15+ debs of Discord in my Downloads folder.
For anyone else trying to use the native Discord app on Debian, I think they'll find this a major treat.
Discord not automating downloads of DEBs is one of the reasons motivating me to do this.
Personally I need the desktop client because I mod it with plugins that are so useful that I can't do without these anymore.
Alternatively, there are third-party repositories here and here.
There still is delay between Discord releases and repository updates so I still believe dynapt to be the better solution.
Discord client modifications are against the Terms of Service. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
I don't care.
This is 100% of the reason that I use the discord flatpak.
Just use the flatpak?
I didn't know there was one, that's interesting, thanks.
Updates must still be delayed because of being third-party though.
I've never had an issue with the flatpak version being out of date. 😊