Yeah a few of those projects have existed for a while, but certainly things have picked up steam with the emergence of better LLMs. The issue with third-party clients is that Discord doesn't like them, and you're in violation of their ToS, meaning they can ban your account at any time. A bit risky, if you're networked into a bunch of communities (unfortunately so, but the effect is rather strong).

I do this on FF through https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox. Works really quite well, and allows me to run uBlock Origin still ;)

With a native app, which I still welcome for perf/mem reasons, I'll have to configure opensnitch (or smth of the sort) to take care of the outgoing telemetry calls... A system-wide uBO would be a nice to have!

> Nobody cares as long as it looks right and feels smooth.

That's how you get bloated apps that run poorly on lower/mid end consumer hardware and environments, with poor accessibility, and whatnot :p

Not that LLMs are the cause, this happened a lot before too, but they can exacerbate the issue. They can also be effectively used to minimize it, though they more often than not don't do that without explicit instructions.

I 100% get the worry and yes that happens a lot.

There are easy ways to prevent the bloat and wasteful performance though, sth I do deeply care about.

You can get a long way staying on vanilla or picking (for your llm) one of those superfast frameworks like svelte in ny experience :)

This exactly. My rsync patterns file is littered with dozens of edge cases to capture the configs and ignore state/caches of stuff that doesn't follow XDG. Really dislike the chore of double checking everything and adding new stuff to the list every time I take a backup.

Even worse are those that seemingly follow XDG but not really, like a lot of Electron apps, that just shove config, state and cache in ~/.config.... sigh