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

Incredible.

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 👏 👏 👏 👏

who made discord anyway

What effect can that have on performance?

a bunch of code bros who didn't like slack or skype?