I’d definitely love to move away from Discord, but unfortunately I’ve not been able to get my friends to move to anything else. Additionally, I have to use Discord for work (yes, it’s strange - definitely wouldn’t have been my decision) so I’d still be stuck using it even if my friends went over to something else.
In a similar vein to deadcade’s comment, Ripcord also exists also an alternative. If this exchange had happened a few months ago I would’ve recommended it above anything - but unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in a very long time at this point and it’s starting to cause some core functionality to not work.
EDIT: It’s pretty much exclusively the Slack functionality that doesn’t work anymore. The Discord side is great and is IMO has a much more useful UI, ex: you can group arbitrary channels from any number of servers into a single group which is presented in the UI pretty much as a new server. No more server hopping to check out all of your favorite channels!
You want a magic Discord speedboost? It’s called OpenAsar. Mitigates telemetry, and speeds the client up to usable levels, especially on lower end hardware.
Another vote for shitty Discord from me. If there was any app I could just magically give a speed boost to, it’s that.
Some days it annoys me enough where I just run it through Firefox/Web, especially on Linux where it’s really janky.
The day we worked out (a decade ago) that we could stall discord by talking about world news was the day we moved to more secure communication.
I’d definitely love to move away from Discord, but unfortunately I’ve not been able to get my friends to move to anything else. Additionally, I have to use Discord for work (yes, it’s strange - definitely wouldn’t have been my decision) so I’d still be stuck using it even if my friends went over to something else.
Not like there is a better free alternative.
The alternative is a combination of multiple other programs some of which are associated with cost.
In a similar vein to deadcade’s comment, Ripcord also exists also an alternative. If this exchange had happened a few months ago I would’ve recommended it above anything - but unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in a very long time at this point and it’s starting to cause some core functionality to not work.
EDIT: It’s pretty much exclusively the Slack functionality that doesn’t work anymore. The Discord side is great and is IMO has a much more useful UI, ex: you can group arbitrary channels from any number of servers into a single group which is presented in the UI pretty much as a new server. No more server hopping to check out all of your favorite channels!
You want a magic Discord speedboost? It’s called OpenAsar. Mitigates telemetry, and speeds the client up to usable levels, especially on lower end hardware.
Oh this looks great, thank you for the shout!