Discord, 1Password, Slack, GitHub Desktop, VS Code.
these are all also the results of bad design choices or a lack of resources?
these are all also the results of bad design choices or a lack of resources?
When discord and slack started the company was not large so it definitely could have been a lack of resources. Could also have been a bad design choice.
I'm not alone on that either at all. This is a pretty common opinion.
Claude had a chance to really show something special here and they blew it.
Does this work on people usually?
Regardless the only thing keeping those millions of people at this point is lock-in. Even then people are actively looking for ways to move away from it. I'm witnessing the migration now and am looking forward to the day I don't have to hard restart the client 2-3 times a day.
What does any of the malaise about discord have to do with their choice of runtime?
It is an untested hypothesis that if discord had a native app, all the problems that people complain about would disappear. I think people in hacker news like to just assert the hypothesis because sounds better than cross platform. But in this particular case, it is fundamentally untested. We simply don’t know that the app would be better if it were native.
I just saw your other posts in this thread though.