Comment by anthk

Which features? For instance, Kopete had far more features than Slack and Discord combined and using 10X less resources. With inline videos, videoconferences, inline LaTeX rendering and who knows what.

Ironically Spotify and the rest of the Electron turds barely cover the 10% of what we did with Amarok and KDE3 with Kparts and using 10% of the resources.

What we are seeing it's people using damn 18-wheelers with less features than a tricycle.

Opera for instance was propietary but it even had a Torrent/Email client while being usable even under a Pentium 4 at amazing speeds.

Now try that today with Vivaldi.

More IM. Pidgin. Bloat it to the extreme with 4 or 5 or even 10 protocols being run at once while adding lots of plugins such as services for Google Translate, inline videos or HTML parsing until it uses ~512MB of RAM. Still it runs far snappier than Discord, it uses 4X less RAM and a simple Athlon/Pentium III can drive literal thousands of conversations in parallel.