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by iqanq 1589 days ago
Discord is snappy? Is this the level of desktop applications in 2022? :P
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Sadly yes.

And you can blame all the fuckers who ran to Slack and VSCode, for it. Once electron became "acceptable in polite society", it was all over.

Teams, Slack and VSCode all run in the browser too and that's really useful.
Agreed. My main problem with Electron apps is just how slow it loads, even on an M1 Mac (~20 seconds loading time vs the normal 1 second or less). Discord is certainly no exception to it, and even steals focus twice while loading.

Personally I have to quit Discord to keep myself from getting distracted, so it’s way worse when you have to wait so long just to reply to a notification.

Super snappy for me (with countless of crowded servers constantly bombarding messages).
Post your specs. Discord takes 10 seconds to start up on my unloaded Core i5-6200u.

The average user does not have a gaming or workstation CPU.