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    [–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    In all honesty I just use the browser now as that's been the best experience with Discord for me.

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yup this. Tho if matrix gets desktop streaming I'm gone.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.

    I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it's supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That's great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it's looking like time to leave soon.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I fucking hate discord. Hope they ruin it.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Thats the thing...there's no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Fr, I have tried but unfortunately my friends are mostly normal people

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

    When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.

    In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.

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    [–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    My experience with Discord, period:

    Family Guy puke

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Thank God im not the only one. I feel like I'm going crazy when all my friends do nothing but worship discord.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Not at all. I loathe discord with a passion. I can't understand how such a unintuitive piece of software gained such mainstream acceptance.

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    [–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    ~/.config/discord/settings.json

    "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true,

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

    Ooohh a useful response.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Wait seriously? Does this stop it from forcing me to update it when an update is available but it's not in my package manager yet?

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    [–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I mean there is always the flatpak version

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

    I must be getting old.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

    Yep. I didn't realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.

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    [–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Use the Flatpak or better yet stop using Discord.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    It is so annoying when communities really want to have a discord. Particularly when they are somewhat technical and so any solutions that they might have are not search able.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    The flatpak has (had?) Issues of not being able to stream application or desktop audio. The system package can and is way more up to date.
    Flatpak is not the solution to everything lol

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    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (15 children)

    If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

    This. Use Vesktop. Expand the features of Discord while outright blocking the shit.

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    [–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Discord is trash software. Always has been.

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    All that work, and it's a web wrapper.

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

    When l was on it I saw no point in running it outside a browser tab

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    check out vencord (or vesktop) just in time for discord to completely enshittify. while you're looking, consider something like revolt chat instead?

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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

    So. Very important for everyone here. You can bypasss the forced discord update.

    To disable the update check, add the line "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true to ~/.config/discord/settings.json

    I'm running with native electron (sure, electron) but it works great tbh

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

    Just use a flatpak sheesh

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I just use the web version of discord :)
    cause i have more control on the web version and i dislike electron
    i cannot leave discord at this time

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I've been using the browser client.

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    [–] BootLoop 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Yeah this is annoying.

    "It's your lucky day!"

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

    Vesktop is nice.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

    I use Vesktop, it has a flatpak release and flatpak auto-updates it for me. Also it includes Vencord, so I can add as many plugins and custom themes I want.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I'm gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

    discord.com/app

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    idk i just use the website

    for some reason it crashes on Firefox when i enable audio, but my mic doesn't work anyway so you know it's not a big deal

    edit: fix typos

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

    yay discord

    Yes.

    Even screen share is fixed in wayland now! I believe that the flatpak version was on the cusp of supporting it too so it might already. I kinda stopped caring about it when everything worked, which is certainly a good sign.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I started using Discord in 2015 and around 2019 uninstalled it in favor of using it exclusively through a web browser (blocking as much of it's nonsense as possible). Discord takes too many resources hostage if anyone in your server is streaming something, even if you're not watching it. I don't have that issue when using Element (Matrix), Jitsi or any of Steam's broadcasting tools. The only reason I haven't deleted my Discord account yet is because some people I hold dear are incapable of trying something better nowadays (even when they already have it installed as is the case of Steam).

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