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Interesting. I discovered just the other night that merely minimizing Discord nets me about a 20 FPS improvement in Factorio. (Even if Discord is otherwise off-screen, which it normally is, as Factorio is fullscreen, and there's no second monitor for me.)
I suspect all the GIFs and animated profile pictures etc.
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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 basically IRC with an enormous amount of bloat tacked on. Every time it upgrades - which is obnoxiously often - it'll have some new feature they want to force on me and I have to click on a popup to dismiss it so that I can do what I intended when I started it. And they've started injecting their politics into it too, which you'll see on startup now and then. The mobile app is sitting in my "notification jail" f…
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> I can’t wrap my brain around why a chat app would need 3D acceleration. A big part of discord's target community is gaming/gamers. One of the features it provides is the ability to livestream the game you are playing and view streams of games others are playing. Definitely not my area, but I wouldn't be surprised if streaming some game with an overlay would require 3d acceleration to not suck.
Streaming functionality isn’t chat, though. AMD gives you the option to not install streaming functionality when you install their drivers and I’m pretty sure they target gamers too. It reminds me of the age of Windows bloatware. Trying to pile all the ingredients on a single piece of bread does not a good sandwich make. On the contrary, it leaves me with an impression that they have to rely on the brand recognition…
But it's hard to split it much more finely, and two in one isn't going very hard into bloatware. And I like the integration between the two.
I would change a lot of things about discord but not so much that part.
I really have a love hate relationship with discord and I feel like it is a prime example of an application that should be "simple" but just seems far more complicated than it should be. Currently my biggest annoyance is for some reason every time I start a game, it also tries to access my Camera. Some people online are saying that it is because my webcam has a mic... but why is it trying to access my mic when I laun…
Do you have the discord overlay enabled?
Not really sure why the overlay would be trying to access my webcam or my microphone either though. But I also never use it and not sure why its enabled.
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so just sign up again like reddit, bans are entirely meaningless
Reddit is one of the most difficult sites online to use as a new user. Virtually no subreddits allow new account to post. There are often waiting periods of a month for new accounts and large karma requirements that are difficult to get, because once again subs won’t let you post. Reddit is new user hostile.
indeed it is, because if you're new and don't know about the effective shadowbanning of new users then it just looks like the site is dead
meanwhile anyone actually banned will just go and pay $1 for a 3 month account with 100 karma
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’m the opposite. If there is a well written app on iOS or iPadOS, I’ll use it for the increased privacy protections, lower battery and CPU usage and (sometimes) lower bandwidth consumption. IMHO, mobile operating systems have gotten better than legacy desktop operating systems in a bunch of key areas. But of all the platforms, the web is the worst one. The web has tracking everywhere and often uses a lot of CPU, mem…
If you think websites track you, why wouldn't the app made by the company that adds the tracking on your browser ignore tracking you with their app?
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Teams has that too, you can call groups, or teams, people can pop in and out at will. Two years ago the multinational company I was working at had a global ransomware attack and we had a teams call for like 7 days straight with check-ins every two hours for everyone but there were on call people in there always if you had specific questions. It worked really well and made it easy for people to get stuff done and have…
I know what you mean - we had Teams at my past place. Difference is Teams UI is intrusive, which might suit command and control style orgs. Huddles are much less intrusive. You can do regular calls with Slack as well, Teams-style, but huddles are much slicker IMO.
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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…
Discord optimizes streaming your gameplay by injecting DLLs into your game when you go to stream it (I discovered this, and the setting to disable it, after trying to figure out how the hell Puzzle Pirates could crash due to being streamed). I would be very. Very, very surprised to learn a website could do that. Hell, any streaming of whatever separate application you're running seems like it shouldn't be possible fr…
Screen capture API has been a thing for a while now:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...
It has a UX almost identical to discord with regard to screen/application capture experience.
Hey all, I work at discord and specifically have been tracking this issue. We recently released support for AV1 hardware encoding for go live streams. However, the process of probing the GPU for what codecs it supports has triggered a latent nvidia driver bug. We are releasing a workaround some time today, and nvidia is releasing a driver update to address this issue as well. Apologies for any inconvenience this has…
Is this also why Hades has been lagging, dropping frames, and running at a much lower framerate for months while Discord app DMs (and only DMs) are open?