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Re:Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else by alpaca128 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:19AM (#28312892)
Ah, you're right, I didn't see that setting. The button to disconnect is white for me, though. I'll have to look again next time, maybe I'm going crazy.

> It's just inherent to being an electron app I guess.

A barebones Electron app has maybe ~100MB memory overhead and starts without noticeable delay. To me this seems like the same problem that leads to oversized and sluggish websites. Snappy, lightweight Electron apps exist, though they're uncommon.

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Re:Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else by bruce343434 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:17AM (#28313331)
Oh, they well could have changed the color of the button then. Haven't used voice in a while.

And yeah, discord is for sure very javascript heavy.

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