One of the advantages of running programs like this in the browser is that you download a fresh (with caching) version every time you reload the page.

Desktop apps are in the best place to silently download and install updates. This can be with a schedule via OS, or some background service that is always running even if the main application isn't.

This has worked very well for Chrome for a very long time, the only time it doesn't is for people like me that restart the computer only every couple of weeks.

Discord could have a similar model but choose not to for some reason.

Rebooting is not necessary unless you have updated the kernel.

Microsoft has generated billions of hours of bullshit labor pretending otherwise.

If you only open it every few days / weeks it will download the latest version, as they push regularly.

If you open it every day and still get updates there might be something wrong.

Of course there's something wrong: you're using Discord :)

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