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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days 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] 47 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

    Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.

    Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that's what we used back in the day... like a decade ago, but maybe there's something modern and more open nowadays?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

    Teamspeak doesn't even have a fraction of Discord's features. It's a bad alternative.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    from what i know either Matrix or Revolt
    Revolt is more closer to discord but Matrix is better cause it has ee2e, you can host your own server and my favorite feature Clients

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (4 children)
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

    Was going to say. I've been lucky. My only experience with Discord has been sudo pacman -S discord. I barely use it, but I have some friends I keep in touch with on it.

    [–] MaliciousKebab 6 points 6 days ago
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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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

    Does the same on windows. Either they're constantly changing some really deep stuff that we don't see or notice, or it's not actually updating just "checking" for updates or loading but it's just slow AF.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Nah, this isn't the launcher doing checks and applying patches, I mean like I gotta download a new .deb (basically .exe) file with an incremental difference in the version number and unpack it over the old install.

    Ridiculously frequently. Like, once a week at the very least.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

    Okay Jesus, I think that's just someone at discord smoking something.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

    Just use a flatpak sheesh

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago (3 children)

    I've been using the browser client.

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

    Vesktop is nice.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Idk about you, but for me Manjaro just auto manages that via AUR. dont even have to do anything.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Huh, why does it use the AUR for discord? In Arch it's just part of the Extra repo.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    That repo always seems to lag quite a bit behind official releases. Multiple times on arch I’ve edited config files to have it lie about its version number to get it to keep working.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

    Samesies, but on EndeavourOS

    [–] candyman337 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Ever since the update where screen sharing works FINALLY natively in plasma I just used the flatpak discord

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days 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).

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

    Honestly activitypub should get extended with support for realtime data

    That would allow for all sorts of cool things

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

    discord.com/app

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

    "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    I don't get it - on Mint I click the Discord icon and just use Discord, same as on Windows.

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    [–] ChickenAndRice 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    I see some recommendations for Vesktop in this thread.

    For some reason, launching Vesktop's Flatpak version presents a blank window. It worked perfectly fine a few weeks ago. Going back several versions doesn't fix the problem.

    Does anyone else have this issue? What doesn't help is that the repo doesn't have an issue tracker:

    https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop

    Edit: Appimage version works just fine

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Ran into that as well. Just use "repair vesktop" option from the right click menu on the icon when it's running. That fixes it. You'll stay logged in etc.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    https://flathub.org/apps/com.discordapp.Discord

    Packaging desktop apps via deb (or other system package managers) is obsolete and should be frowned upon.

    cue the angry comments from cranky old people

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    @gamer @DesertDwellingWeirdo
    >discord
    >desktop apps
    /0
    Also, packaging electron to flatpak sounds most stupid idea ever...

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Sandboxing proprietary apps and containerising their outdated dependencies is a good thing.

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