

Zoom is better suited for real-time online meetings and presentations. Discord is great for small and big team communication and collaboration via text or voice. Zoom and Discord serve two different purposes. Even TechSpot staff have moved away from Slack to use Discord full-time for team collaboration and communication. Click Load unpacked and select the directory you extracted the crx to.Discord is a cross-platform voice and text chat app originally designed for gamers, but since finding mainstream popularity, all kind of communities have migrated to it.Visit chrome://extensions/ and turn on developer mode (toggle in top right).crx from releases and extract the contents to a folder If drag-and-drop install fails, try this workaround: After lauching you can pin the app to your taskbar (on windows) and it will essentially function as a stand-alone program.crx file onto the chrome://extensions/ page to install Enable Developer mode (toggle/checkbox in top right corner, may vary depending on version).Navigate to chrome://extensions/ in your chromium based browser.Download discord-chrome-app.crx from releases.Currently it doesn't look as nice, but makes up for it with improved functionality.

I am working on an alternative in the form of a PWA. This will inevitably make this app unusable (unless you are willing to keep an old version of Chromium installed, which is a security risk). NoticeĬhrome Apps have been deprecated for a while now and Google plans to finally end support for them in 2021. discord-chrome-appĪ chrome packaged app that mimics the desktop client while maintaining the privacy and security of the chrome browser sandbox. You can still use this app if you are using an older browser (or fork that still supports apps), but it will no longer be maintained. EoL The successor to this project can be found here: Discord-PWAĪs of June 2022, Chromium no longer supports Chrome Apps.
