How discord works is the expected behaviour for many users, including myself. I do not want to minimize the window (keeping it in the task bar), I want to close the window, while keeping the background worker running.
My experience with applications that show a notification/tray icon is that about 80% of them do not shut down when closing the main window. And the ones that don't follow this pattern by default can usually be configured to work this way.
Microsoft has applications which follow the same pattern. For example the Anti-Virus runs in the background and indicates it status via notification/tray icon. Opening or closing the settings window has no effect on its operation.
I don’t think the background worker is the problem. It’s the fact that the user remains in a call, with their microphone hot, potentially against their expectation
My experience with applications that show a notification/tray icon is that about 80% of them do not shut down when closing the main window. And the ones that don't follow this pattern by default can usually be configured to work this way.
Microsoft has applications which follow the same pattern. For example the Anti-Virus runs in the background and indicates it status via notification/tray icon. Opening or closing the settings window has no effect on its operation.