I've been using a lightweight third party Discord program called Dorion (available for Mac/Linux/Windows). They have a portable version that I haven't tested thoroughly for portability but it doesn't much matter for reasons described below.
Note that I want to be very clear that I don't fully trust the Discord network so definitely don't share any personal information on that platform. I mostly use it because of a community of users and the absolute killer feature of lowering the volume of other people on a call. If it were a for-pay feature on other platforms, I would buy it.
The program uses a lot fewer resources vs the Discord client, which is great. Only around 12 megs of RAM (EDIT: The latest version is up to 23 megs). However, it will start to cache server data, so after a few weeks of use the program will take up 200 megs of disk space.
STEPS
1. Check that you have the latest version and download that
2. Unzip to a standard folder e.g. C:\temp\Dorion
3. Launch using a limited user batch file e.g.
4. Login as normal
Why the extra steps?
The program is always making me re-login anyway so there's not much point to keeping a local copy, in addition to the already mentioned caching issue.
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For additional security (via program isolation), you can easily run the program from within Windows Sandbox.
License
Open source (GPLv3)
Websites
https://github.com/SpikeHD/Dorion
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/ ... rion.shtml
Note that I want to be very clear that I don't fully trust the Discord network so definitely don't share any personal information on that platform. I mostly use it because of a community of users and the absolute killer feature of lowering the volume of other people on a call. If it were a for-pay feature on other platforms, I would buy it.
The program uses a lot fewer resources vs the Discord client, which is great. Only around 12 megs of RAM (EDIT: The latest version is up to 23 megs). However, it will start to cache server data, so after a few weeks of use the program will take up 200 megs of disk space.
STEPS
1. Check that you have the latest version and download that
2. Unzip to a standard folder e.g. C:\temp\Dorion
3. Launch using a limited user batch file e.g.
Code:
runas /trustlevel:0x20000 "c:\temp\Dorion\Dorion.exe"Why the extra steps?
The program is always making me re-login anyway so there's not much point to keeping a local copy, in addition to the already mentioned caching issue.
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For additional security (via program isolation), you can easily run the program from within Windows Sandbox.
License
Open source (GPLv3)
Websites
https://github.com/SpikeHD/Dorion
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/ ... rion.shtml
Statistics: Posted by webfork — Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:37 am