I am a real Discord customer who is actively looking for an alternative due to how terrible the performance is on my M1 MacBook and on my gaming PC. I'm just one person—I'm not claiming to represent the 'average' customer. But I am part of the average.

The other part of the average is the 200m+ monthly active users who can't seem to find the uninstall button.

It really depends.

If all you do is run games and discord on your home PC memory consumption won't matter.

If you have multiple uses or work from home ... Discord expanding to 4 G to display the meme channel with all those cat photos will be annoying to say the least.

Case in point, I stopped running Discord on my laptop. Still run it on a desktop to keep in touch with some people, but it's not my default goto for any communication.

Also, just because most users don't know better, it doesn't mean that Electron apps aren't basically disrespecting the user's resources and passing needless costs to them. Especially if you have hundreds of million users the extra cost they pay dwarfs whatever you the app developer would have paid for a working native application.

The whole thesis OP is making is that this isn’t really true, evidenced by real world behaviours. Electron apps have some of the highest market share, even the worlds most popular ide is an electron app.

The amount of people who won’t adopt based on pricipal is exceedingly small.

Hey Matt! I've been a fan of Ambiphone for a while and I see your comments on HN surprisingly often. I've been trying to build a different web audio player with inspiration taken from yours. I haven't figured out the screen off audio thing, so thank you so much for sharing this demo!!!

Thanks so much, that's really cool to hear! Let me know if you ever hit any more problems, I've been meaning to blog about a bunch of problems I had to work round in various browsers but haven't got round to it yet, so happy to answer any questions

I don't want to live in a world where we have to add footnotes when using em dashes

Same, my typographically-savvy friend. This "dead giveaway" too shall pass — first it was certain words, today it's em-dashes, and tomorrow we'll be forced to introduce grammatical errors.

hey now typos make you authentic, that's a plus

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FWIW: Your original comment, in the first message you sent ChatGPT, was way better than the one you posted. Simple, authentic, to the point

I couldn't agree more, this 'polished' style the finished comment comes in is super boring to read. It's hard to put the finger on it, but overall flow is just too... Samesame? I guess it's perfectly _expected_ to be predictable to read ;)

And then one of the iterations was asking additional ways llms could be used and then adding some of those as content which seems odd but plausibly helpful brainstorming. Just the phrasing of the original question makes it sound like things the user isn't actually doing but wants in their comment if that makes sense.

Thanks for the example chat it was a valuable learning for me!

I've seen Bauble before, although not sure where. Love your work

I'm working on a parody of the lofi hip-hop radio YouTube streams, but for Byzantine music (chanting) of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The end goal is a community-focused study/prayer/chill sound generator for an Orthodox Christian audience

Great article! A minor correction, Steph Ango is Obsidian's CEO, not founder

Hey! Thanks for pointing out. I have already corrected it in my article :)

That's a very compelling pitch. I don't have the budget yet but it's something I'll be keeping my eye on as yall launch and reviews start coming out!

Looks really cool, although way beyond my chess ability. Nice work

Extremely shallow take on what is undoubtedly the rise of America's next great space era