Dorion

Dorion is an alternative Discord client aimed towards lower-spec or storage-sensitive PCs that supports themes, plugins, and more!
https://discord.gg/agQ9mRdHMZ

Download

Installers are available on the releases page. You can also get it from a package repository, or GitHub Actions, or you can build it yourself!

Note

MacOS Users: If opening Dorion gives you "Dorion.app is damaged and cannot be opened", MacOS is lying to you and you may just need to run sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Dorion.app.

Windows Users: Defender may think Dorion is a virus. This just happens sometimes, and if SmartScreen blocks it from running, click "More Info" and "Run Anyways". Feel free to scan Dorion with Virustotal!

Table of Contents

• Package Repositories
• Features
  • Plugins
  • Themes
• Platform Support
• Building
  • Prerequisites
  • Steps
• Known Issues
• Troubleshooting
• TODO
• Using Plugins and Themes
• Contributing
• Screenshots

Package Repositories

I do not maintain any instances of Dorion in any package repositories myself, however some very kind people maintain some in their own spare time:

• Windows:
  • Shovel/Scoop (Maintained by Small-Ku):

    scoop bucket add turbo 'https://github.com/Small-Ku/turbo-bucket.git'
    scoop install turbo/dorion

  • WinGet (Maintained by headquarter8302)

    winget install --id SpikeHD.Dorion

• Linux:
  • Arch AUR (Maintained by Refined7075)

    yay -S dorion-bin

  • NixOS

    nix-shell -p dorion

Note

Maintaining Dorion in a different package repository that I don't know about? Feel free to open a PR to add it here!

Features

• Significantly smaller than the original Discord client, as well as other web-based alternatives
• Theme support
• Shelter included out of the box
• Support for other client mods and plugins, like Vencord
  • There is no BetterDiscord support... yet
• Almost full game presence support included out of the box. Enable it in "Performance & Extras"!
• (Hopefully) better low-end system performance.

Plugins

Dorion comes with shelter, so that should cover at least some plugin-related needs. You can also enable client mods like Vencord inside the Dorion settings page. If you want to install plugins not available within the Dorion settings page, ensure you are downloading a browser-compatible version.

Themes

Dorion supports all themes, BetterDiscord and others, with a couple caveats.

Jump to "Using Plugins and Themes"

Platform Support

Feature	Windows 10/11	Windows 7[1]	Linux	MacOS
Basics (logging in, navigation, text/DMs etc.)	✓	✓	~[2]	✓
Voice	✓	✓	✗[3]	✓
Themes	✓	✓	✓	✓
Shelter	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dorion Plugins	✓	✓	✓	✓

¹ While I am told it works fine, Windows 7 support is speculative and not guaranteed. It could break at any point, and if this happens, I probably won't put much effort into fixing it (PRs always welcome of course!).

² Some people report Dorion freezing on Linux, particularly when GIFs are playing. This is a bug in WebkitGTK.

³ Support for WebRTC is hidden behind a build-time flag that is not used in almost all distros. Even with support, Tauri v1 does not support a high enough version of WebkitGTK bindings to enable the functionality. This will be available when WebkitGTK ships with WebRTC support.

Building

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• PNPM
• Rust and Cargo
• Tauri prerequisites

Steps

1. Clone/download the repository

2. Open a terminal window in the root project folder

3. Install JS dependencies:

   pnpm install

4. Build the minified versions of the JS/HTML files:

   pnpm build

5. Pull the latest shelter build

   pnpm shupdate

6. Build!

   # Build the updater
   pnpm build:updater
   
   # Build Dorion
   pnpm tauri build
   # or to debug/open in dev mode
   pnpm tauri dev

All built files will be in src-tauri/target/(release|debug)/. When using portably, the icons and injection folders are required. Installation files (eg. .msi) are located in bundle/

Known Issues

• (Windows) Large images in themes will not load
• (MacOS) Injection JS does not reinject after reloading the page
• Fonts/font-faces will not load

Troubleshooting

If you are having problems opening Dorion, or it instantly crashes, or something similar, try the following:

• Install via MSI instead of the .zip file
• Use the .zip file instead of the MSI
• (If using the .zip file) make sure all files were extracted properly (html, injection, etc.)
• Reinstall WebView2
  • Fully uninstall and reinstall.
  • If you are having trouble uninstalling it, or the installer says its already installed even though you uninstalled, try deleting this registry folder and uninstalling again Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients\{F3017226-FE2A-4295-8BDF-00C3A9A7E4C5}
  • You can also try uninstalling from the Command Prompt

TODO

• Pre-process fonts like images/CSS imports are already done
• Multi-thread CSS processing
• Use resource files from within the binary itself instead of the filesystem
• Desktop notifications
  • AND displaying the number of notifs in the desktop icon
• Webpack stuff
• Global push-to-talk
• Rich presence(?)
  • FULL rich presence
• Custom keybinds
• Helper API methods and events for plugins
• Backup localized themes
• Localization timeout
• Safemode key (disable themes and plugins)
• New release notifications
• Logging system (like reMITM)
• Move from device_query to rdev (since device_query doesn't work when spawned in a thread on MacOS)
• API abstractions

Using Plugins and Themes

Tip

See the examples directory for examples of plugins, including how to include external code and themes.

Plugins and themes are relatively simple to use, the file structure looks like so on Windows:

C:/Users/%USERNAME%/dorion/
    ├── plugins/
    |   └── plugin.js
    └── themes/
        └── theme.css

and like so on Linux:

~/.config/dorion/
    ├── plugins/
    |   └── plugin.js
    └── themes/
        └── theme.css

so if you download a plugin or theme, just pop it into the plugins/themes folder. If you need help finding them, there are buttons in Dorion settings that'll take you where you need!

Note

Themes can also be installed by clicking Install Theme from Link in Theme settings, if you prefer

Contributing

Issues, PRs, etc. are all welcome! For guidelines and tips, see CONTRIBUTING.md

Screenshots

Installer Size Comparison (Windows)

Full Installed Size Comparison (Windows)

Loading screen

Settings Menu

Theme: Catpuccin - Frappe

Theme: Fluent