Can the slowness and slow startup of Discord be fixed? The new app currently under development and settings to make it lighter right now [2026 Edition]

Every time I open Discord, I am kept waiting on a loading screen that displays trivia. It feels longer the more I am in a ...
Windows Latest

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting” screen and 70% less RAM, even with two accounts signed in

Discord’s Rust client opens before the Electron app finishes loading, skips the Starting screen and uses 290MB of RAM with ...
Hindustan Times

Discord down: Users report ‘stuck on loading,’ app not opening amid widespread outage

Update: As of 10:45 p.m. EDT, Discord was functioning normally for users in the United States following a brief outage on Tuesday evening. Several users took to social media and to the Downdetector ...