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0 pointsPacificSpecific2mo ago0 comments

I've used 3/5 of those programs significantly and have issues with all of them relating to software quality. Especially discord. So bad I have 4 different servers actively trying alternatives.

When discord and slack started the company was not large so it definitely could have been a lack of resources. Could also have been a bad design choice.

I'm not alone on that either at all. This is a pretty common opinion.

Claude had a chance to really show something special here and they blew it.

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selridge2mo ago

They all have millions of active users doing complex tasks in them every day! I's laughable that you expect me to take your vague complaints about Discord seriously not just as complaints but as dispositive signs that electron was a bad design choice.

Does this work on people usually?

PacificSpecificOP2mo ago

Discord could have been a lack of resources as I previously said. They weren't a billion dollar company when the application was conceived.

Regardless the only thing keeping those millions of people at this point is lock-in. Even then people are actively looking for ways to move away from it. I'm witnessing the migration now and am looking forward to the day I don't have to hard restart the client 2-3 times a day.

selridge2mo ago

What does any of this have to do with choosing an electron app over a native app?

What does any of the malaise about discord have to do with their choice of runtime?

It is an untested hypothesis that if discord had a native app, all the problems that people complain about would disappear. I think people in hacker news like to just assert the hypothesis because sounds better than cross platform. But in this particular case, it is fundamentally untested. We simply don’t know that the app would be better if it were native.

PacificSpecificOP2mo ago

That was only 1/3 of the electron applications which you hyper fixated on. If I use 10 applications a day and the 3 of them I (and countless other people) consistently have a problem with share something in common. Well, I'll let you figured that one out on your own.

I just saw your other posts in this thread though.

xigoi2mo ago

Appeal to popularity fallacy.

selridge2mo ago

At least attempt a real sentence.

xigoi2mo ago

Popularity is not an indicator of anything other than marketing skills. How popular a product is has absolutely nothina to do with its technical merits, as can be seen from garbage like Microsoft Teams.

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