In all honesty I just use the browser now as that's been the best experience with Discord for me.

My experience with Discord, period:

~/.config/discord/settings.json

"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true,

I mean there is always the flatpak version

Use the Flatpak or better yet stop using Discord.

If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.

Discord is trash software. Always has been.

i just use this bad boy

All that work, and it's a web wrapper.

Flatpak

So. Very important for everyone here. You can bypasss the forced discord update.

To disable the update check, add the line "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true to ~/.config/discord/settings.json

I'm running with native electron (sure, electron) but it works great tbh

Just use a flatpak sheesh

Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.

https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop

I've been using the browser client.

I just use the web version of discord :)
cause i have more control on the web version and i dislike electron
i cannot leave discord at this time

Yeah this is annoying.

"It's your lucky day!"

I use Vesktop, it has a flatpak release and flatpak auto-updates it for me. Also it includes Vencord, so I can add as many plugins and custom themes I want.

Vesktop is nice.

Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I'm gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!

discord.com/app

idk i just use the website

for some reason it crashes on Firefox when i enable audio, but my mic doesn't work anyway so you know it's not a big deal

edit: fix typos

yay discord

Yes.

Even screen share is fixed in wayland now! I believe that the flatpak version was on the cusp of supporting it too so it might already. I kinda stopped caring about it when everything worked, which is certainly a good sign.

I started using Discord in 2015 and around 2019 uninstalled it in favor of using it exclusively through a web browser (blocking as much of it's nonsense as possible). Discord takes too many resources hostage if anyone in your server is streaming something, even if you're not watching it. I don't have that issue when using Element (Matrix), Jitsi or any of Steam's broadcasting tools. The only reason I haven't deleted my Discord account yet is because some people I hold dear are incapable of trying something better nowadays (even when they already have it installed as is the case of Steam).