This is not at all stretching it. Discord's client is very poorly optimized and bloated and it is known since a long time. I could never run it on my hardware with a comfortable experience. Even some of my friends would ask me to look for and provide them older versions of the app because each update would make it laggier for them to use. I don't live in a First or Second world country with a good paying job. Most electronics are imported here and cost a lot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ever look at it's resource usage? It's so bloated and resource heavy for nothing more than a chat client.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't deny discord comes with bloat. But the idea that discord needs a "super expensive rig" seems a bit hyperbolic. If you can browse this site, your hardware can probably deal with discord.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I can understand that «super expensive» will have a different meaning for different regions but for me it is the case.

I am using the Thunder Client on Android with some optimizations. But its resource usage is not comparable to Discord at all.

Regardless, Libre platforms like Lemmy and Matrix allow me to use different clients if one is too heavy for me. This is not the case with Discord.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, totally fair!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a 12 year old CPU and I can flawlessly stream video while I play games to my chat group. Discord is doing petty good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Well, I have 9 years old laptop and when I play something demanding like Valheim, or Risk of Rain 2 with my friends, I have to run Discord on my phone because otherwise I get either performance lags, or network lags, or both. May also be an issue with a shitty network bandwidth, but the phone and laptop are both connected to the same network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I used to run a potato 5 years past its warranty and even that had no problem with Discord. Maybe that has changed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dude discord and whatever game I'm playing crashes at least twice a day. No crash without discord. It's just trash