Set up desktop app

We'll show you how to set up discordapp.gay to use our update servers so it automatically serves the correct web app and allows Cloudflare Access.

Automatic (Recommended)

Download your desired Discord version. Use a separate one from your main client. We like using Discord Development as a test client, but any will work.
Find your settings.json file
- Windows: %appdata%\discord[ptb|canary|development]\settings.json
- Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/discord[ptb|canary|development]/settings.json
- Linux: ~/.config/discord[ptb|canary|development]/settings.json
- Linux Flatpak: ~/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/settings.json
Add the UPDATE_ENDPOINT and NEW_UPDATE_ENDPOINT overrides.

{
  // your other settings here
  "UPDATE_ENDPOINT": "https://updates.discordapp.gay",
  "NEW_UPDATE_ENDPOINT": "https://updates.discordapp.gay"
}

Manual Installation

You can manually replace your discord_desktop_core core.asar with a custom one to let your app work with discordapp.gay.

This used to be the recommended way to install it before we launched updates.discordapp.gay. We don't reommend it anymore because it is removed every time Discord updates.

Discord's module location:

Windows: %localappdata%\discord[ptb|canary|development]\app-x.y.zzz\modules\discord_desktop_core-1
Linux: ~/.config/discord[ptb|canary|development]/0.0.xxxx/modules/discord_desktop_core
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/discord[ptb|canary|development]/0.0.xxxx/modules/discord_desktop_core

Download core.asar

Manual patching information

This is more useful if you have an older Discord client you want to make work, or a custom 3rd-party client. If you want the latest official client, we recommend automatic. But for the adventurous, here is some basic instructions.