Post #1025621
2026-04-09 12:27 UTC
I have only ever had this issue with discord on arch.
The issue you describe is not Arch specific and it’s not an issue. Using a package manager means using a program to manage your packages. Things can’t auto-upgrade, that breaks the point of a package manager.
Whenever discord has an update, it will not fetch the update, but it tells me that an update can be downloaded.
Of course, if you install discord through pacman, then pacman manages the update.
As for the JSON file that’s a very hacky approach, discord shouldn’t outright fail to launch if there is an update. And in fact the Arch wiki says it has a flag to skip the version check completely:
To disable the update check, add the line “SKIP_HOST_UPDATE”: true to ~/.config/discord/settings.json. If the file does not exist, create it and add the following:
~/.config/discord/settings.json
{
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true
}
More info on wiki.archlinux.org/title/Discord
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@Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 20:46
The flatpak version of discord is able to fetch for updates when launching the app without needing to system update. And for some reason it is specifically on a system update. Updating only discord does not update the version even after modifying the build_info.json. and I could disable updates, but that shouldn't be necessary unless discord is pushing updates that are actively making the experience worse.