Message from @Great Cait
Discord ID: 481448397522337839
amazing
why would anyone want a calculator that uses a literal gigabyte of RAM
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i can't post images, but if I could, I'd show you a screenshot of my task manager right now where Discord is using literally 1.3 GB of RAM
1.3 GB
for a chat client
like i said ... most people building these apps, have no idea about performance
calling it lightweight was an absolute joke and Discord are a bunch of pseudo-intellectual crooks, this is so sad, alexa can we all use qTox
around 500MB for me
which yeah, is insane
Even 500MB is a lot, considering how old some peoples' machines are.
its a trade off
209.2MB for me
for reference, Teamspeak only uses around 25 MB for me
my machine has 16GB i dont care about RAM, but if it starts hogging CPU
OH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD DISCORD'S SCREENSHARE IS FOR YOUR CPU
they're doing VIDEO ENCODING and DECODING on the CPU
what the ACTUAL FUCK
like the Slack client used to open a window/thread (cant remember the details) for EVERY org you were in
HAHA 100% CPU USAGE HERE WE COME
i have six cores and I still want to actually kill myself whenever I use screenshare on Discord
yeah my machine is a bit of a potato otherwise, and when i play games and use discord chat, my FPS is shit. if i turn off discord, its all fine
According to my partner who is a games animator Unity up until very recently used the CPU for everything pretty much
Pissed him right the hell off
and as for idle CPU usage by discord, it's using 15% for me and literally nothing else is using that much CPU right now
not even doing anything and it spikes up to 25%
isn't discord cloud based?
about 1% for me
obv
as we've been talking out before, Discord's based on Electron
aka aids.js
whether it's cloud based or not doesn't matter
it's still electron based
yes the data and everything would be stored in the cloud, and there is a backend to transfer messages, voice streams etc. but you still have a client running on your machine
and that client is poorly optimized
oh god what is this electron this looks horrific
javascript html and css
yes
welcome to the "modern" desktop app
not only that, but the discord client itself is 32-bit yet the installer forces you to use a 64-bit system even if the software doesn't 👏 👏 👏 👏