• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I think you underestimate just how difficult making a app like discord fast is. It’s quite impressive how well it works tbh

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      1 year ago

      element do it, and do better, it’s just company wanting money but don’t want to spend money fixing it, that’s why it’s electron, and not other better alternative, it’s cheap and easy to develop, not fast

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        1 year ago

        You must be in only tiny rooms because element absolutely dies when joining anything busy. They recently implement sliding sync to help mitigate this.

        Also yeah, the discord desktop app is garbage, I’ll admit, but I’m talking about the website

        • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 year ago

          tbf that’s partly matrix the protocol being inefficient as fuck. element the client can’t really fix that.

          whose idea was it to synchronize the entire fucking history of a channel to every individual instance? for a chat app?

          (yeah the matrix guys want to be a global federated generic data store and not a chat app i know, but all this has ended up with is a mediocre chat app and a few toy projects nobody cares about)