[philippejara]

We may not like the "future", but old software using 20x more resources than usual has been the future for a while, just look at electron apps the growing trend of home computers becoming thin clients over webapps and cloud computing. I despise this trend as much as the anyone else, but I can't see how it isn't the future we are heading towards.

[throwaway675309]

It has always been this way. How many people who grew up on text terminals, and despised GUI-based utilities that are essentially just thin graphical wrappers on top of a CLI tool at 20x the size?

This argument gets repeated by every generation ad nauseam, even though they're oblivious to the fact that it keeps reoccurring. Everyone loves drawing an arbitrary line in the sand.

[anthk]

GUIs are a step over CLI's.

What does Discord improve over Kopete by using 20x more resources except for the video resolution?

Also, it should run far snappier if the improvement was just a video resolution improvement and a new codec often accelerated by the GPU such as h264. But it doesn't.