[nonethewiser]

> Users who cannot afford new enough hardware to make the resource-intensive client pleasant to use are also left by the wayside.

Wait… people can’t run web browsers?

[toastercat]

By "client", they mean the web application that is Discord, which is CPU and RAM intensive especially for folks with older hardware.

[toastal]

Not everyone lives in the West & has access to the fastest hardware or fastest networks. Some folks are living mostly off-grid using solar power & each heavy application is chewing thru their limited batteries.