>no way to use an alternative client These exist, but some are not open source. You can run discord on a vita if you wanted to. Just because something is close

>no way to use an alternative client These exist, but some are not open source. You can run discord on a vita if you wanted to. Just because something is closed source, doesn't mean it's impossible to reverse engineer. The entire system is compiled into a javascript webpack, alongside just reading web requests/their documentation, doing some basic functionality in an alternative implementation is really easy. This apparently breaks the terms of service, but they are only enforce this if you're an outlier for the number of API requests you send. The most well known 3rd party client would be Ripcord, which I use for it's Slack features