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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (Rust rewrite) - Link updated following AI detection in the comments (www.theverge.com)
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Edit: old post is someone is curious: https://dev.to/jamilxt/electron-vs-gpui-what-discords-290-mb-rust-rewrite-can-and-cannot-prove-34b6

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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (8 children)

How much memory does Discord normally use?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    😆 That's insane. 1/16th of my RAM for a voice comm program. What a bunch of bloat.

    Makes me curious what Fluxer is using now that I switched to that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    It uses flutter, still bloated but it's frequently uses a quarter of what discord does for the same work load. Typically between 500 megs to 1 gig. When discord would use 2-4 gigs.

    If you want a full all in one client like this your going to have to use a decent chunk of ram no matter what. But discord lost its marbles ages ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    Are you including video streaming in that number? We just use it for voice and text and I've never seen it go above 2gb.

    I suppose that was a couple years ago, though, so things may have changed

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    This is based on what my ram usage tracker has listed from when I used discord about 8 months ago. I'm weird and keep track of ram, CPU, GPU and io usage for every process 24/7.

    I haven't used it since switching to fluxer.

    It's usage is honestly kinda all over the place. While fluxers is really consistent. Couldn't tell you why.

    But I can say that watching video streams would be included in that ram figure.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Right right but I'm asking what you were doing in discord when you got that 4gb number. Was discord idle? Were you in voice chat with 5 people? Sharing video?

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