Discord-Lite

A light weight discord client written in Python, for developers, by developers.

Image by https://www.reddit.com/user/Hoodie-the-Wolf/

What does “light weight” really mean?

Light weight, developers use a lot of tools, Git, Visual Studio, and we all know what using Visual Studio is like, and plus StackOverflow for all those queries you gotta ask, you probably also use Discord, it’s quite popular for developer communities and gaming too! So to toggle between co-operative workspaces and your IDE, here’s Discord Lite, it uses less memory when compared to Discord Client or Google Chrome version of Discord. It also loads GIFs faster, supports Images and Videos, PDF and other documents.

Drawbacks

There are a few drawbacks to the light weighted version ofcourse, and they are:

It can’t be used for live streaming.
It can’t be used for VC’s
It can’t be used for screen sharing or video calls

and that’s about it.

Inspiration and sources

This is basically a modified version of the Geeks For Geeks tutorial on how to Make a Web Browser using PyQt5, so I to decided let’s modify it and make it a Discord Client since it runs Google so well.

Link: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/creating-a-simple-browser-using-pyqt5/

Known issues

None

Roadmap

On the roadmap we’ve got:

Downloading Images using links in the Client
Screenshot Button to quickly screenshot chats
VC and Streaming support
Video call support
Switching between alts

Add me on Discord! cyber#3709

Here’s the support server invite: https://discord.gg/EwY2aZMn6t

Contributions

Any useful contribution is welcome, but preference will be given to those who can solve the drawback issues or implement the roadmap features in their PR, happy coding!

Compatibility

Currently tested for Windows 10 with Python 3.9.9 issues related to reports on other systems can be opened.

Clarifications

This isn’t any serious “client” of such, it’s simply Discord Web running in a custom browser to reduce strain on Chrome or the Discord Client which infact is quite heavy and can feast off your RAM, feel free to star the repo if you liked it.