Client mods run code inside Discord. That’s the whole point, and it’s also the risk: one bad plugin and Discord can crash every time it opens. With most mods, the fix is digging through folders to find and delete the culprit. Evi does that part for you.
Noticing the loop
Every time Discord starts, Evi adds one to a small counter on disk. Once your plugins are running and Discord has stayed up for five seconds, it resets the counter to zero. A healthy start leaves nothing behind.
A crash loop leaves the counter climbing. When the last two starts never made it to five seconds, Evi knows something is wrong before the third one begins.
Safe mode
On that next start, Evi loads in safe mode. Every plugin, theme and bit of Quick CSS stays off, official plugins included. Discord just works.
Then Evi tells you what happened, and names the change most likely to blame:
From there it’s one click: turn that plugin off and restart, or leave safe mode if it was a fluke. You can still turn plugins on or off while in safe mode; the changes apply when you leave.
Naming the culprit
Evi keeps a short history of recent changes: a plugin turned on or its settings changed, a theme enabled, Quick CSS edited. The suspect is simply the newest change that’s still on. Turning something off can’t break anything, so that’s never recorded.
There’s one subtle case: a plugin that crashes Discord the instant you enable it. To make sure it still gets named, Evi writes the change to disk before any of the plugin’s code runs.
Even mid-session
The same goes for crashes while you’re using Discord. Two crashes within two minutes and Evi switches to safe mode on the spot, stops any native plugin code that’s running, and reloads the window instead of letting you fight it.
- Up and running before a start counts as healthy
- 5 s
- Unfinished starts before safe mode kicks in
- 2
- Window for two crashes mid-session
- 2 min
And if even that isn’t enough
If safe mode doesn’t fix it, Evi stops loading entirely: after two more unfinished starts, the next one runs plain Discord. You can also ask for that yourself:
Terminal
Discord.exe --evi-safe # one start in safe mode
Discord.exe --vanilla # one start without Evi at allA clean way out
Evi never edits Discord’s own files. Installing it sets Discord’s original app aside and puts a small loader in its place:
So uninstalling is just the reverse: evi uninstall removes the loader and puts the original back, in every Discord version folder it finds. Byte for byte, the file you started with. Your plugins and settings stay in %APPDATA%\Evi in case you come back.