Discord unloading when in background

[Vendicated]

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When Discord is in the background for a prolonged period of time, it sometimes unloads. When you come back, it takes a few seconds to "re-connect" and fetch new messages. Supposedly it also disconnects you from voice when this happens

There are many reports of this happening on stock Discord but according to some other people, it only happens with Vencord.

The following needs to be investigated:

• I think if Vencord is causing, it's most likely DisableCallIdle. Does disabling this plugin fix it / enabling this plugin cause it?
• Does running Discord/Vesktop with --disable-renderer-backgrounding fix it?
• Does setting backgroundThrottling: false in the electron BrowserWindow options fix it?

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[Vendicated]

It does seem to be the DisableCallIdle plugin. If you have this issue, check if it's enabled. If yes, try disabling it and see if the issue is fixed (and report back here). If not, post your list of enabled plugins

[trwy7]

For me this is only on vesktop, I have had this happen once with vencord, and never with stock

[Naviamold1]

It happens to me as well, but I don't use 'DisableCallIdle'.
Issues really started after updating Discord to their x64 bit version. Also, the 'Discord installed in wrong place' popup pops up in Vencord Installer since installing Vencord on that version.

[Dedoooo]

this only happens with vencord for me.
even with plugin that you say is causing it is disabled

[VL4DST3R]

Been having issues with this for a long time as well (W10). It seems to be random when it happens, but indeed it must be a period of inactivity, happening even while on voice chat. This also causes it to be very hard to realize you're speaking to yourself and have been since disconnected from the call.

[Cats1337]

I haven't used the DisableCallIdle plugin but I was having the issue of randomly disconnecting and reconnecting to voicechats. adding --disable-renderer-backgrounding to my Target in Properties has fixed it.

[MrGarlic1]

I could replicate this issue on stock Vencord, with or without the DisableCallIdle plugin. Running with --disable-renderer-backgrounding seemed to fix the issue.

[byeoon]

Turning off DisableCallidle did not fix the issue, I will try --render thingy soon

[Tiagoquix]

Running Vesktop on Fedora Linux 40 KDE on X11 with the command-line option --disable-renderer-backgrounding seems to fix my issues regarding messages "hibernating"/having a delay (only sending when Vesktop is focused). I don't use Disable Call Idle.

(By the way: Vencord/Vesktop@d3b94fc#commitcomment-142196978)

[byeoon]

I might have found a potential link to this. Unloads were occuring more frequently due to lack of disk space (< 20GB) and after cleaning up my computer it seemed to have stopped. Is it possible that this is a factor?

[Sqaaakoi]

I might have found a potential link to this. Unloads were occuring more frequently due to lack of disk space (< 20GB) and after cleaning up my computer it seemed to have stopped. Is it possible that this is a factor?

almost certainly a coincidence with some workaround added to vencord being implemented around the same time?

[VL4DST3R]

Unloads were occuring more frequently due to lack of disk space (< 20GB)

I'm... also curious of this, as I'm in a similar situation on my main machine (~20-30gb free atm) where I was experiencing issues, but on my laptop with hundreds of gigs of free space it seemed to work a lot more reliably.

Now, like @Sqaaakoi saiid, it sounds too stupid not to be just a coincidence, but the issue itself seems to be not well enough understood, enough to make me consider even stuff like this.

[Vendicated]

discord recently added a bunch of command line flags that disable backgrounding

so did vencord
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if it was fixed in the past two weeks, that's likely why. i highly doubt free space has anything to do with this

[Dedoooo]

it stopped unloading a couple days ago and now its back to it since a new update?

[VL4DST3R]

So far for me it seems to no longer silently unload, fingers crossed it stays this way.