codes a desktop OS specific program coded in C just to spite you
To be honest I absolutely hate everything being a browser app.
I ditched Discord a few weeks ago. I moved to Matrix!
what is this matrix you speak of?
Thanks. Going to check it out now
Voice channels work perfectly! I’m waiting for screen sharing.
Push to talk or voice activation would be good
It’s already implemented 😎
Matrix is great, reminds me of a more secure discord. At least this one can be bothered to even try implementing end to end encryption
element / matrix instead
There’s really no reason to be mad at them in this particular instance. Their client is Chromium-based (Electron) so they will optimize their new features for that engine first. There’s probably less than 5% users who Discord from browser, let alone Firefox, and I think I’m being generous with that number. Additionally, some things are harder to implement (or even impossible) in native web rather than Electron, that has all the NodeJS integrations.
File upload is not a chromium feature, it’s a super old basic feature. It’s just their pittiness and upcoming drm implications. I bet if you set your user-agent to chrome it woould work just fine.
There’s probably less than 5% users who Discord from browser, let alone Firefox
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Eventually I can see discord discontinuing their web client to push you users into installing their spyware.
They already have Windows on your machine. What more can they get from you with Discord?
I am a Linux master race user. I don’t use Windows.
I bet you don’t install discords spyware on your Linux box. Or maybe you do and you’re whole pontification is moot.
There is FOSS wrapper for discord called webcord, if you have to use discord but want a bit more privacy.
“Press THIS button if you want to enter anyway”.
I think I need to fill a patent for this idea, since it’s brand new, fresh and nobody has ever heard about it…
As other comments have pointed out, Firefox doesn’t necessarily support the necessary APIs that Discord is using for this. I have the same issue where neither Firefox don’t support the in-browser MIDI API, so I need to have Chrom(ium) for a webapp that lets me configure some MIDI hardware that the manufacturer provides zero computer interface for.
I’d like to use Firefox for everything, but there will always be some edge cases like this as long as there are APIs or other features that it doesn’t yet support. Of course not to say that securely implementing every new API is trivial, but that’s just how it is right now
Discord is such an obvious “stay the fuck away from” product.
Looks like they’re prepping you for browser drm lol. Go decentralized and get off discord.
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People use discord in the browser? Damn boi
Yes as I manly use it on phone
So for the once on a blue moon when I’ll open discord on my PC, the browser is enough
Makes sense
Discord is a web app, there’s no other way. You either use your main browser or the one they’re bundling it with.
If it’s just a WebApp, then why does one of the commenters have issues to run it without the browser?
See: https://feddit.de/comment/2192027
Edit: And I know that you’re right technically, still there is a difference in how you run it when using a browser vs Webapp.
Theoretically, it may have additional features when it’s bundled with Electron, but ultimately there’s nothing wrong with running it in the browser.
Nah I know there’s nothing wrong with it. I was just surprised so many people do it. But I guess we have a privacy-aware tech bubble here
