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wow had no idea there were good native apps for discord. im totally gonna try this once im home :))) thx again :)))
This apparently breaks their TOS, but I don't know if anyone got in trouble over it yet
(The Discord TOS does not even mention third-party clients.)
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> I simply won't use a dedicated app for anything that can be done in a web browser. In 2023, what app experience is still impossible to do in the browser? The only things I can come up with are apps requiring access to outside hardware or files. There are now several entirely unique ways in which a AAA gaming experience could be delivered to a client browser. If we can ship resident evil frames to a Chromebook at 30…
I believe the discord app has some weird limitations around global shortcuts and push-to-talk when you use the browser tab instead of the desktop app. One use case also used to be that you would use a browser tab for one discord account and the desktop app for another, but container tabs + browser profile switching made that less necessary. And then discord eventually added support for multiple accounts.
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I keep trying to use ripcord, but the reality is a workplace expects you to be able to jump on board every new feature that Slack adds within moments of it's release. Whether that be huddles, threads, recordings, etc. If we could pare our use of Slack down to just text, it would be a great alternative - but until them I'm stuck using the official client.
This is a real question: what are Slack huddles supposed to do? I run the native client. While anyone can start a huddle with me, I never see any UI for a huddle. All I get is the audio coming across. To end the huddle I have to force stop Slack and relaunch it.
The tiny window is sorta useless except for mute/hangup, but you can undock it from the sidebar and make it much larger for video chat or screensharing.
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This apparently breaks their TOS, but I don't know if anyone got in trouble over it yet
Can you show where in the TOS third-party clients are disallowed? (The Discord TOS does not even mention third-party clients.)
> All 3rd party apps or client modifiers are against our ToS, and the use of them can result in your account being disabled. I don't recommend using them.
I exclusively use Discord in a browser tab. I simply won't use a dedicated app for anything that can be done in a web browser.
> I simply won't use a dedicated app for anything that can be done in a web browser. In 2023, what app experience is still impossible to do in the browser? The only things I can come up with are apps requiring access to outside hardware or files. There are now several entirely unique ways in which a AAA gaming experience could be delivered to a client browser. If we can ship resident evil frames to a Chromebook at 30…
That's not even 100% true either [1]. For instance, you can flash Android devices from the browser. The example in [2] talks to an attached Arduino device.
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Can you show where in the TOS third-party clients are disallowed? (The Discord TOS does not even mention third-party clients.)
https://twitter.com/discord/status/1229357198918197248?lang=... > All 3rd party apps or client modifiers are against our ToS, and the use of them can result in your account being disabled. I don't recommend using them.
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It's because a) people want high resolution, and b) software development is cutting corners like building on electron. Lastly, Discord has absolutely the worst software engineering behind it.
It's not about cutting corners. It's about time to effect change. It's about cross device and platform support. It's about it being easier to find developers familiar with the browser stack then native app developer. That being said I would love to have less memory allocation on my devices when effectively idle too.
Ripcord's very existence contradicts most of the claims you've made above.
Discord can definitely do some strange things to your machine. I can't play DayZ when it's open, the game will not connect to any servers and errors out with this "player auth login state" message. I thought it was my internet connection but running a server locally also resulted in the same error. It took me a few months of on-and-off searching, but I eventually found a comment on a message board where someone had e…
There are many problems with discord, and GPU is not the worst one. Discord Snap has to block many unusual activities, but I still see these: * attempt to `ptrace` processes all the time; * using 99% CPU; * to work Discord needs some non-standard interfaces to be connected; * Discord tries to track which other programs you run by default and shares it. * too frequently restarting desktop integration snap until the lo…
So then I guess the advice is, if you have to use Discord, stick to the web version?
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We went wrong with Electron in particular: https://www.electronjs.org/ . I am convinced this framework alone is responsible for more performance loss on the desktop than any other single thing.
Agreed and I’d go a step further and say that this was inevitable with the advent of JavaScript. Humans are lazy (efficient?) and will always gravitate to the easiest tool for the job. If “the job” is just to make a functional chat app, it becomes wildly efficient to simply wrap your web app in electron. I’ve done it to an existing web app and it took less than a day to suddenly have “native” .dmg and .exe to distrib…