In all honesty I just use the browser now as that's been the best experience with Discord for me.
Yup this. Tho if matrix gets desktop streaming I'm gone.
Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.
I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it's supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.
That's great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it's looking like time to leave soon.
Thats the thing...there's no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.
Fr, I have tried but unfortunately my friends are mostly normal people
When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.
In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.
My experience with Discord, period:
Thank God im not the only one. I feel like I'm going crazy when all my friends do nothing but worship discord.
Not at all. I loathe discord with a passion. I can't understand how such a unintuitive piece of software gained such mainstream acceptance.
~/.config/discord/settings.json
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true,
I mean there is always the flatpak version
I must be getting old.
Yep. I didn't realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.
Use the Flatpak or better yet stop using Discord.
It is so annoying when communities really want to have a discord. Particularly when they are somewhat technical and so any solutions that they might have are not search able.
The flatpak has (had?) Issues of not being able to stream application or desktop audio. The system package can and is way more up to date.
Flatpak is not the solution to everything lol
If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.
This. Use Vesktop. Expand the features of Discord while outright blocking the shit.
Flatpak
check out vencord (or vesktop) just in time for discord to completely enshittify. while you're looking, consider something like revolt chat instead?
So. Very important for everyone here. You can bypasss the forced discord update.
I'm running with native electron (sure, electron) but it works great tbh
Yeah this is annoying.
"It's your lucky day!"
I'll figure it out
I can't stand that I can't close discord until I have touched that stupid dropdown, to the point I have uninstalled discord and just use a matrix bridge or the browser version.
I'm on endeavouros so the deb file is pointless
Vesktop is nice.
I just use the web version of discord :)
cause i have more control on the web version and i dislike electron
i cannot leave discord at this time
Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I'm gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!
https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
I like that I can make the light theme not ass
Just use a flatpak sheesh
Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
idk i just use the website
for some reason it crashes on Firefox when i enable audio, but my mic doesn't work anyway so you know it's not a big deal
edit: fix typos
discord.com/app
yay discord
Yes.
Even screen share is fixed in wayland now! I believe that the flatpak version was on the cusp of supporting it too so it might already. I kinda stopped caring about it when everything worked, which is certainly a good sign.
I started using Discord in 2015 and around 2019 uninstalled it in favor of using it exclusively through a web browser (blocking as much of it's nonsense as possible). Discord takes too many resources hostage if anyone in your server is streaming something, even if you're not watching it. I don't have that issue when using Element (Matrix), Jitsi or any of Steam's broadcasting tools. The only reason I haven't deleted my Discord account yet is because some people I hold dear are incapable of trying something better nowadays (even when they already have it installed as is the case of Steam).
I wrote a small bash script to curl the latest .deb, install it, and delete it because i was having this problem too. shame it can't just auto-update or let me use the old version
On my aging laptop, the Discord app consumed RAM like Goku at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Moving back to a browser tab eliminated the overhead from Electron and was dramatically more performant as a result. This completely side-steps any upgrade and/or snap issues.
me: so ppa?
discord: no ppa only deb
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