Discord is getting a speed boost on Windows, Mac, and Linux

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The Discord messaging application is getting a much-needed speed boost on desktop platforms. There are also new improvements to screenshots and game streams, a new way to share times, and much more.

Discord is not the fastest and most responsive application on the planet, even on higher-power desktops and laptops. My gaming PC with a Ryzen 5 5500X and GTX 1080 usually takes about half a second between clicking on a server and seeing the messages, and it was noticably worse before I upgraded the CPU. There’s no similar delay on my MacBook Pro, but it shouldn’t take an M4 Pro chipset for Discord to work properly. Thankfully, some of that slowdown should be gone now.

The company said in a blog post, “We recently shipped a dramatic improvement to render performance on desktop, significantly reducing delay when navigating around or interacting with the app. This should be especially noticeable for users with less available processing throughput, either due to system load or slower processor speeds. Surprisingly enough, this was almost entirely due to slow CSS selectors and not a slow endpoint or unoptimized components.”

Besides the performance improvements, you can also now zoom and pan on screenshares and game streams, using a scroll wheel or laptop trackpad. Discord said that was a “highly requested feature.” Preview load times for game streams and screenshares should has also been decreased, and playing videos with multiple audio tracks on Android should now work properly.

You can also now create dynamic timestamps in desktop Discord using the @time command. This allows you to type a time and date in a message with several formats, like “in 15 minutes” or “Monday at 5 AM,” and other people will see a converted version for their own time zone. You can also hover over the timestamp to see the full date and time, regardless of how the message text is formatted.

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