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Also, only the backend is written in Rust. The desktop client is an Electron app: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop
Hi, one of the developers here, we use electron because its hard for our small amount of devs (there are about 4) of us to maintain multiple clients, this is the same reason we use the same web client for mobile.
Hate on HN does not predict any kind of product metric.
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Hi, one of the developers here, we use electron because its hard for our small amount of devs (there are about 4) of us to maintain multiple clients, this is the same reason we use the same web client for mobile.
Performance is more important that cross-platform support. If a user has money to feed more and more and more resources into a gluttonous, hideously inefficient web browser masquerading as a program, they have enough money to get on the platform everyone else is on. Discord is an obscene drain on resources. That's the problem that's easy to solve: just stop with the bad programming choices. That said, I didn't realiz…
The backend and the clients are both open source, so I think the idea is that people do run their own servers. There's certainly nothing stopping you. I assume the hosted server is just for convenience and/or demo purposes.
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Now I want to know if HN hates Electron more than it loves Rust. Or do they perfectly cancel out?
Ah, the monolithic HN myth again. That's right, let's just ignore that this place has thousands of readers, thousands of commenters, and that there's no thing called "HN" to talk about as it if had intentionality and/or opinion.
Okay, enough navel gazing for me!
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Hi, one of the developers here, we use electron because its hard for our small amount of devs (there are about 4) of us to maintain multiple clients, this is the same reason we use the same web client for mobile.
Performance is more important that cross-platform support. If a user has money to feed more and more and more resources into a gluttonous, hideously inefficient web browser masquerading as a program, they have enough money to get on the platform everyone else is on. Discord is an obscene drain on resources. That's the problem that's easy to solve: just stop with the bad programming choices. That said, I didn't realiz…
You have to be where the people are to make it worth anyone's time to complain about performance.
Have been using another discord alternative, ripcord [0] for a while (with native (Qt) UI instead of electron). Recently we ripcord users keep getting soft banned from discord (have to reset our password) [1], is it something this project also suffers from? [0]: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ [1]: https://dev.cancel.fm/tktview?name=8f8ecd4b60
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Hi, one of the developers here, we use electron because its hard for our small amount of devs (there are about 4) of us to maintain multiple clients, this is the same reason we use the same web client for mobile.
Performance is more important that cross-platform support. If a user has money to feed more and more and more resources into a gluttonous, hideously inefficient web browser masquerading as a program, they have enough money to get on the platform everyone else is on. Discord is an obscene drain on resources. That's the problem that's easy to solve: just stop with the bad programming choices. That said, I didn't realiz…
telling the author what their priorities need to be... nice.
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Also, only the backend is written in Rust. The desktop client is an Electron app: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop
Hi, one of the developers here, we use electron because its hard for our small amount of devs (there are about 4) of us to maintain multiple clients, this is the same reason we use the same web client for mobile.
Thank you for writing for all.