[discord] Query: which is less memory-intensive, opening Discord in its app or in a browser tab?

Ah, nice! That's good to know.

I found the browser extension to be like /six minute whoopee cushion noise

the desktop app can get very "I'M GONNA UPDATE NOW" "you just updated" "UPDATING " when it's patch time but otherwise works well!

Excellent information right here~

I like the browser version on my laptop but the app on my phone

my complaints about the desktop app aren't big ones - I kind of hate the way when the desktop app gives me a notification in the bottom corner of my screen, it blocks me from clicking anywhere near there for a few seconds, but otherwise when I've used it I haven't had any issues. I think it slows things down when I restart but not once things are all running

I mostly use the browser version because it's just easier for me to click between browser tabs (discord is always my leftmost tab) than to click open another program when I get a message

I'm considering switching because I always have so many tabs open that a bunch of them go off the end of the tab bar.... XD

I thiiiiink I have those notification tabs turned off, but not sure

they can definitely be annoying.

anyway, I am an app user all the way, no matter the platform or device.

(Hey, hello! ^^ )

I've been slow to move from browsers to apps, since I do most stuff on my laptop, but this might be worth doing for me.

Where are you hanging out these days?

....also is there a way to get discord to show which servers have been active in the folders/server menu, because I'm having to guess

If I'm thinking right, if you're using the browser version, there should be a white line to the left of the icon for the server if there's posts you haven't read in it.

It kinda looks like a little white gumdrop sticking out from the side of your screen

I'm trying out the app! The whole structure is still very nonintuitive to me but I'm learning.

....those are here too, but it's there for all of them XD;;;

Ah, okay! Yeah, I don't know anything about the app.

Oh, I see -- the issue is that all of the servers I'm on have had activity. XDDDD

Oh! That would do it, lol XD

I shall!

...meanwhile zomu I remembered I can set my start menu to for small icons and this is life-changing. This bad boy can fit so many programs on it now.

now if only it'd do line breaks between groups

or title bars

but anyway: what I think I'm understanding here is that servers are like a journal/comm situation in that you can have and/or join any number of personal ones or subject-based ones

however, they're a bunch of chats on the inside so the subject-based ones don't have sortable tags or posts as such...?

and servers can be put in folders to reduce clutter

....a specific chat log is called a channel? maybe?

but the ctrl-K quicksearch (as it keeps reminding me) allows searching for "servers, channels, or DMs", which, I guess it searches only your specific direct messages? XDDD But public servers/channels?

There are so many tools and functions and I can see the utility but also it's a lot to learn XD

I think that all sounds right? I haven't used Discord a whole lot, but, yeah, there's a lot to it, and not all of it is intuitive.

(Where I am hanging out these days: Meadowlark & The Greening!)