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Can anyone who works on the discord app explain to me: How am I impacted for having (being part of) let's say 100 server (guilds) on my app versus having 1?

Should I quit the discords that I don't use? I feel like they stay in sync in the background and if I am in 100 servers and they all post say tons of text I will get massive lags.

Does that make sense? Is there a way to prioritize only the server I have active/I am talking in and freeze the rest while im full-screen/in-game/focused?

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We've put a lot of work into our clients and our backend to make sure the impact of being on 1 vs 100 guilds is negligible. It helps that most of the folks building Discord are power users in a bunch of servers (so we feel the pain of poorly optimized paths early). Generally if you don't look at a server often it shouldn't effect the performance of the app / bandwidth usage. I think we have some more blog posts in the works regarding some of these topics so look forward to those!

If a guild is completely muted (including @everyone), and I don't open it, do you have a rough estimate of how much resources it uses? In theory, it should be zero, but in practice, does is the server sending me updates about messages even if I'm muted?

It depends on the activity of the server. But generally, you're only receiving message create events and updates to the server. But you aren't receiving things like member list updates, presence or typing events from the server until you focus it initially.

Additionally, we unsubscribe you from these events if you unfocus the server for a given amount of time.

Well, are you ever going to provide a better way to deal with 10+ servers? The left-side server UI is terrible. The icons aren't enough to figure out which server is what and it desperately needs some form of sorting or categorizing (being able to create custom groups of servers, for example per game or any arbitrary list of servers). I end up continuously pruning my list so I don't have more than 10 because it's so bad.

WoW alone forces me to have 1 server per class, then 1 server for every guild I'm associated with. Forget about any other game.

No need to be so rude and entitled about it. Especially considering you're probably not paying for the resources you're consuming. Even if you are, it's rude.

I bet it's on their todo list to handle that use case and no doubt there are other priorities.

It's been years without any improvement at all. So yeah, I'm annoyed. I'd even be happy to give them money monthly, but the apparent priority of this issue is at the bottom of their list, if it's on there at all.

I'm Junior developer interested in webrtc tech. How can I learn more.. Thanks

You custom implemented many components of webrtc I barely got part of the pats down in my project. So this was really interesting to me.

I'm pretty sure there isn't a ton of background fetching asides from marking servers as unread, it can take a bit to actually load the messages when you click an inactive server, and it won't have any new messages if you don't have a connection (even if it had a connection when it was sent)

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