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Minimum system requirements: 64 Mb RAM.

Hear that, official Discord?

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Now, considering this project will be hunted down and DMCA-ed or C&D-ed soon, has the original author considered separating the generic messenger UI code from the transport code to make the codebase usable for less ... jealous ... services?



Got curious and checked. A Discord tab used ~500MBs. Other big sites (YT, FB, etc) were also at hundreds of MBs. Web bloat is real.


Actually Discord - the standalone "application" - has improved at some point.

It used to go up to multiple gigabytes (i caught it at over 4 at some point) if you left the meme channel displayed for weeks. I'm guessing it used to keep all those animated gifs uncompressed in memory.

I does seem more reasonable now. For a javascript "application" at least.

> displayed for weeks

I'm guessing that since Discord is a gamer oriented application all their devs are used to restarting their Windows PCs daily and don't realize that you can leave other operating systems running for months* without any trouble.

* or years if you don't apply core os updates.


libpurple plugin would be amazing




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