alt Hacker NewsThere's a surprisingly large Windows XP community; everything from security patches to browsers[0] to third party Discord clients[1].
[0] https://www.mypal-browser.org/ [1] https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm
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AlbertoLuna17 • 01/16/2026
Another browser alternative is Supermium[0] it's an up to date Chromium based browser that also works great in Windows XP.
roytam87 • 01/16/2026
My browsers[1] still target XP and developing in Win7.
[1] https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5...
userbinator • 01/16/2026
There's a Windows 9x community too, although maybe not as large.
What I don't understand is... why? I understand keeping alive software for the sake of hardware compatibility, but browsing the web and running Discord? Is it all really just to save a few hundred dollars over... 24 years?