I find it funny that backend devs will do all this infrastructure work to support billions of real time messages and then frontend devs stomp all over it by making the app take 500MB of RAM and hundreds of ms to take basic actions.

Couldn't they focus some of their creativity on making the UI look less like the inside of a middle schooler's brain?

Sorry, nobody cares.

A more pertaining article:

Discord: a case study in shooting yourself in the foot by having ties to Peter Thiel's Palantir [1].

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-...