Discord admits excessive RAM usage on Windows app and tests auto restarts as temporary fix
Discord has acknowledged that its Windows 11 app uses far more RAM than intended, often climbing past the expected sub-1 gigabyte range due to leaks, freezes, and other issues tied to its Electron foundation. Some sessions can exceed 4 gigabytes of memory, which prompted the company to test a temporary mitigation.
The current experiment introduces an automatic self restart when RAM usage passes 4 gigabytes. The company emphasizes that this behavior is deliberate, not a malfunction, and is meant to reduce the impact of memory leaks while longer term fixes are in development.
The restart only triggers under strict conditions: the app must have been running for more than an hour, the user must be inactive for at least 30 minutes, and no voice or video calls can be active. It occurs at most once per day, preserves drafts and open channels, and reflects the broader scaling limitations of Electron as more servers and features load.
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- Discord admits its Windows 11 app is a resource hog, tests auto-restart when RAM usage exceeds 4GBWindows Latest
- Discord admits Windows 11 app hogs RAM, tries solving it with auto-restarts | PCWorldPCWorld
- Discord is force-restarting itself on Windows 11 to stop eating your RAMTechsport
- Discord dev says memory leak issues are being worked on, confirms restart fix is only a "temporary solution"PC Guide
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Bugscam being Bugscam
I'd pay for Nitro if it stripped the whole thing down. Just a simple app with text, voice, and video chat while gaming with your bros.
Just use Discord in the browser, dont even bother with their apps.
electron moment. (except on top of that there's just the fact discord as a webapp is simply incompetently made. the linux client is an absolute joke, it's like they just don't know what they're doing at all)
That was the case from the beginning.
Well, none of that would have happened in the first place if they had used Tauri and Rust as a base instead of Electron.
I'm not sure Tauri was a thing in 2015, nor that it would save the mess that Discord is, Dorion exists to prove that (It is a Tauri wrapper for Discord), like I said, the "core" of Discord, the web app itself, is Incompetently made, regardless of what it is wrapped under. They won't even add a PWA manifest, because of course they want to entrap people in their walled garden "clients" (without extensions/modifications)