Discord Just Got Faster! (with less issues)

Discord is a platform filled with bugs and can be as slow as my deceased grandpa.
But Discord's staff have been cooking for the past couple of months and have released their first bi-monthly "patch notes".

These patch notes aren't the typical things you see pop up when you open Discord. They focus on performance improvements that make Discord faster. They focus on fixing the most absurd bugs on the planet (can't unfavorite a gif because you already favorited 1330 gifs?). And if you dig deep enough, you will find some new feature announcements.

The real question though... is this something that you should even care about? Surprisingly, yes!

LINKS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discord Patch Notes Article

Discord Previews Tweet

Discord's White Page of Doom and Gloom Bug Boogaloo

SOCIALS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discord Server

Twitter

TIMESTAMPS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00 - Better, Faster, Stronger?
00:26 - Discord listens to the #1 Degenerate
01:54 - Performance Improvements
04:52 - New Features
05:53 - Bug Fixes
07:56 - Where discord fin bug
09:13 - How to report bugs

[Goddeh]

As a chronically online Discord user, I can confirm that the extra 4fps is a life changer. 🔥

[Uthael_Kileanea]

10:13 - Let me just ruin your day for a moment... You ARE helping Discord. You're customer service and QA assistant and they don't have to pay you anything.

[ABucket]

What's interesting about the 32-bit to 64-bit change is that Discord has always had a 64-bit client available - it's just that when you download the Discord client from their website it downloads the 32-bit version and doesn't give you an option

[daainthunder]

I hope discord really approves of client mods such as Vencord in the future, or they can help make the plugins into features of discord itself.

[venn_]

ntts being happy about an update for a whole video is something i do not believe will ever happen.

[yeahigotfunnies]

ah yes, a huge patch list, with no mention of screen share audio support on linux after 4 and a half years

[locksvur]

6:19 sauce: artist is gachou, character is martha from fate/grand order. you're welcome

[Azuriian]

Gotta give props to the discord devs lately. It's nice seeing them also look at the smaller things like those. Keep it up Discord!

[hanro]

Basically, due to the way Discord's permission system works. They can only have 32 permissions as each permission is represented by bit, added together these bits form a numeric value that can only be 32 bits long....

By returning it as a string discord basically has the freedom to add more permissions without hitting the limits of JSONs number format.

[magusware]

quick bit mask explanation: lets say your your permissions are 0000101001101 the position of the digit is mapped to the actual permission, 0 is you don't have it, 1 is you do have it. Doing it this way is efficient but limits how many you can have. So 32-bit integer means you can have 32 positions in that piece of data.

very simple explanation, omitted a few things, but that's the gist of it.

[InfiniteCuriousity]

A channel about discord features and reading release notes.. how in the world did I end up subscribed and liking every video??

Kudos man, your videos are a lot of fun and very helpful, much appreciated!

[rokasb]

As a programmer, i gottta say their 32 bit problem with permissions limit was there because it was caused by an optimisation, of using bitmasks on a number - way faster than loading a string, especially when there are thousands of users in a server, but it had a limit, of well 32 bits :)

[illuminum]

Well, there is this little bug on Mac Discord that has prevented me from opening it for the past 4 months, because it is forever stuck on the updating loop. I can't really complain, this might just be the best thing that has ever happened to me

[Timely-udrm]

I am surprised that the flathub version of discord is 64 bit, maybe the 32 bit version for the app was only a windows thing. I'm pretty happy with these improvements as I love optizations even if I minimally use discord. I wonder if these improvements will make discord even faster on linux, guess I wont know because I barely use discord. The fact discord works amazingly well on linux at all just makes me happy but that could be for any app. Linux is my favorite if you couldn't tell haha. Anyways great video as always Mr youtuber!

[dapacha]

6:44 You actually said it correctly and I'm impressed

[wolfgamer]

Discord got better??? Thats a miracle.

[gatto_furry]

Wow so much faster! It definitely changed the performance on my 4GB main laptop!

[mrAFK]

YESSS FINNALLY I CAN MODERATE MY SERVER ON MY REFRIGERATOR!!!!

[Exonika]

Wow what an amazing update; I love grey screening every time I change programs and not being able to quit the program from the taskbar then having to open task manager to quit the program.

[importprogram]

Last time the mobile issues were mentioned it was atrocious on Android, but I've used discord mobile a lot less but I still have many issues:
- Clicking a notification still majority of the time does not go to the DM or server message (how is this still a issue??)
- Animations of clicking a DM still play when scrolling in DMs?
- Very rarely a message sent on Mobile proceeding a different users message will not show the users avatar/name, and will visually look like that line was appended to the other user message (this could be used maliciously, like a screenshot of a conversation)