• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I don’t know what you’re installing, but it takes 255MB on my phone. If you’re on a desktop, use your browser. Not that it should be much different.

    Edit: Also the same size on desktop according to Google. The fact that a statement as incorrect as yours is so heavily upvoted tells me there’s no actual logic and reasoning at play here in this argument.

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      4 days ago

      The problem with electron apps are that they’re literally just browser windows, which require a lot of overhead that you wouldn’t need with a native application. What you’re recommending has no benefit.

      The issue is that Electron apps are an acceleration of Wirth’s Law.

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        4 days ago

        Must be a windows problem. Discord is neither larger than 500mb in size, and never uses more than a gig of ram on my machine.

        There’s a million good reasons to not like discord. Age verification, the advertising, the paid nitro for emojis. Why lie?

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Still calling BS on ‘multi-GB’. Runs on mine in a few hundred MB. Not to mention you’re using the wrong terminology if you’re referring to memory usage and not storage space.