Discord Messenger is a free Discord-compatible messaging client that works on almost 30 years of Windows (although support for even older versions has been attempted).
Its motto: It's time to ditch MSN and Yahoo. The project is licensed under the MIT license.
Note: This is beta software, so there may be issues which need to be fixed!
A Discord server about this client can be joined here: https://discord.gg/cEDjgDbxJj
Available are three downloads:
- MSVC Discord Messenger - Compiled with the vs141_xp (VS2017 Windows XP) build tools, can run on Windows XP SP2 and up.
- MinGW Discord Messenger - Compiled with MinGW 6.3.0, can run on Windows 2000* and up, is generally more compatible with older systems.
- MinGW ANSI Discord Messenger - Compiled with MinGW 6.3.0, can run on Windows 98* and up, but is recommended only when the Unicode versions don't run.
Trying to run Discord Messenger on Windows 95? Try using V1.07a
Changelog:
- Added support for Windows 98 (#133)
- Fixed an issue where some webhook messages would wrongfully combine (#138)
- Fixed an issue where a message with a single "@" symbol would crash the client (#116, #126)
- Fixed a recursion error when exiting the client, causing stack overflows on certain versions of Windows
- Fix some resource leaks in the profile popout
- Slightly reduce memory usage from messages
- Add minimize to tray support (#113)
- Add checking for an existing instance (#113)
- Now using different libcrypto and libssl, to allow for support for non-SSE2 systems out of the box.
* Although it may start up on Windows NT 4, it won't actually work. Expect instabilities when using Windows versions earlier than 2000.
Notice: The MinGWA version has been reuploaded on February 2nd, 2025, to add the libcrypto/libssl dlls that don't use SSE2 instructions.
