Discord - voice and text chat

[Special]

Sounds juicy, want story.

I know on their subreddit, the mods their will delete anything that's even remotely negative about them, that should tell you something about them.

[webfork]

Out of frustration and not really wanting to install Discord, I decided to try the Riot.im program by the same group (https://portapps.io/app/riot-portable/) ... that one also seems to be having problems:

[Userfriendly]

Out of frustration and not really wanting to install Discord, I decided to try the Riot.im program by the same group (https://portapps.io/app/riot-portable/) ... that one also seems to be having problems:

I just tested with Win10 x64 and Win7 x64 both Discord and Riot.im work fine for me. Even tried using classic windows theme to see if that had anything to do with it. Its either the apps themselves have incompatibilities with Win7 x86, the launcher not being compatible, or some network configuration issue on your end? Maybe Antivirus or Firewall interfering with something.

Have you tried non-portable install if i works?

Could maybe submit issues here https://github.com/portapps/discord-portable and https://github.com/portapps/riot-portable

Discord and Riot.im can be used in a web browser or smartphone app. There's alternatives there.

[SYSTEM]

Hmm. I have seen someone else getting Discord (installed version, not portable) stuck in the updater screen as well only few weeks ago. Maybe it's related?

[Midas]

(OT!) How so? Isn't it how a riot is supposed to be? Misconfigured, misguided and generally wild?

[webfork]

I've resolved my Discord issue -- the problem was on my side with an overly active HOSTS setup.

> (OT!) How so? Isn't it how a riot is supposed to be?

lol ... unknown. I was able to login via the web interface ok and make some progress, I'll retry the client install in the days ahead.

[webfork]

I've been using a lightweight third party Discord program called Dorion (available for Mac/Linux/Windows). They have a portable version that I haven't tested thoroughly for portability but it doesn't much matter for reasons described below.

Note that I want to be very clear that I don't fully trust the Discord network so definitely don't share any personal information on that platform. I mostly use it because of a community of users and the absolute killer feature of lowering the volume of other people on a call. If it were a for-pay feature on other platforms, I would buy it.

The program uses a lot fewer resources vs the Discord client, which is great. Only around 12 megs of RAM (EDIT: The latest version is up to 23 megs). However, it will start to cache server data, so after a few weeks of use the program will take up 200 megs of disk space.

STEPS

1. Check that you have the latest version and download that
2. Unzip to a standard folder e.g. C:\temp\Dorion
3. Launch using a limited user batch file e.g.

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runas /trustlevel:0x20000 "c:\temp\Dorion\Dorion.exe"

4. Login as normal

Why the extra steps?

The program is always making me re-login anyway so there's not much point to keeping a local copy, in addition to the already mentioned caching issue.

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For additional security (via program isolation), you can easily run the program from within Windows Sandbox.

License
Open source (GPLv3)

Websites
https://github.com/SpikeHD/Dorion
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/ ... rion.shtml