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Oh, so they're killing Vencord, the only thing that made their shit-ass service kind of viable? Very cool.
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Hate for discord aside, what's the benefits / disadvantages here for the users?
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Would be hyped if the same was announced for Element Desktop. That one is a resource hungry electron blob if ive ever seen one.
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While I'm still a bit skeptical of the Rust bandwagon, I am very happy to see Electron going away.
(I wonder if the current RAM crisis is making developers rethink their Electron choices.)
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It blows my mind that it took a decade for them to realize that they should make a proper desktop application. It used to be pretty obvious from the get-go...
Hopefully this rewrite gets rid of all the bizarre ui things they keep adding, like the unremovable friends list on the right side of the screen
Either it's collapsed and taking up too much space, or it's expanded and HIDING THE MEMBERS LIST!!! Meanwhile, the actual friends list already exists and does the same thing without taking up screen real estate
I just finished setting up my matrix homeserver and got my friends to use Sable. So. Yeah, fuck discord and their AI "age estimation," their promises of "we don't store ids" before leaking tens of thousands of them, and their "our trusted partners are the best" and it's literally Palantir in a trench coat.
Fuck all of that. AND they're enshittifying with all the quests and ads. Discord has some real problems but violating everyone's privacy is not the solution. Hire more people, actually investigate, and listen to the community. Don't be a Roblox.
i'll never understand how discord became the standard for gamers. Back in the day we used to use Teamspeak + IRC and that was great. Decentralised, low latency, etc. I still use teamspeak occasionally. Still works great. The discord app was just a mess from the very beginning. Resource hogging electron nightmare. Still everybody thought it was great. And now all sorts of communites, even open source and maker communities are on there. Makes 0 sense to me.
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Soon: Update 1/16, compile time remaining 7:52
I kid, but rust compilation takes up a lot of my nix updates now.
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How the fuck is anyone still using Discord.
Because not everyone has the know how or resources to self host an alternative that only a small amount of people are going to use.
Also, trying to move an entire friend group to a different platform is hard, especially when they are part of other friend groups that are also using discord.
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