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I love the interface, but how does it connect with Discord and how long until they try to shut it down?

• terryschiavo22 8y ago
  Discord itself won't be around long enough for that question to matter.
  • t0mbstone 8y ago
    What makes you think this? Discord is extremely popular amongst many gamers.
    • Algent 8y ago
      And if they made a professional version of it (as is not linked to current one), they would murder slack and pretty much anyone in the way.
      • RHSeeger 8y ago
        I use both, for different things, and I far prefer Slack.
        • automathematics 8y ago
          What do you prefer? I can think of a single thing I like more on Slack, maybe two if I'm splitting hairs (it's a dev only thing) but I moved my entire company's internal chats to Discord (where our external chat already was) because I strongly felt the opposite!
      • lwansbrough 8y ago
        They already have more users than Slack, so I think their response to that right now might be shrug
      • carlhjerpe 8y ago
        The fact that you can't easily reply to a message in discord kind of tells me the opposite.
  • throwaway190102 8y ago
    What are you basing this assumption on?
    • zapzupnz 8y ago
      Third-party Discord clients violate the TOS. The company considers them to be self-bots, which also violate the TOS.
      • solarkraft 8y ago
        That's terrible. I find the interface absolutely awful.
      • penagwin 8y ago
        To add on to this, the only available api is the same for bots as it is for users, the only difference is that bots have less api access and are labeled as such. It's against the terms to use the user api (although it will work until you get caught), I'm not sure if they explicitly ban 3rd party clients (they very well may) but this effectively does the same thing.
      • jjeaff 8y ago
        That means the discord users would be in violation. The creator of the client doesn't have to abide by those terms as they are not consuming the discord service. Merely providing a tool to do so.
        • Karunamon 8y ago
          They are necessarily violating the tos to work on the tool - how else are they testing it?
          • realusername 8y ago
            3rd party clients are fully legal in most countries regardless of what their TOS might say, they are not above laws.
• Lowkeyloki 8y ago
  I'm not very familiar with Discord, but I thought the same about Slack. Slack has been aggressive in the past sending C&D letters to those who threaten their walled garden. I'm not saying it'll definitely happen in this case and I wish all the best to the developers and users of Ripcord. I sympathize with their want for non-electron desktop clients. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if they received a terse and disapproving letter from Slack's legal team.
  • helge5 8y ago
    > Slack has been aggressive in the past sending C&D letters Could you elaborate? Slack provides client tokens and they don't seem to forbid that in the way Discord does (in fact they explicitly provide client tokens via OAuth).
    • Lowkeyloki 8y ago
      To be fair, the ones I specifically remember were various browser extensions and plug-ins that would modify the browser version of Slack's official client. However, I could have sworn there were a few full-fledged clients that Slack didn't like. I feel like one of them was a terminal-based client.
• grimgrin 8y ago
  It's pretty rough really, within Discord's native or webapp you have to pop open the devtools/network-tab and grab an auth token from a request header, heh Works really well though. I've been lazy about addressing a mic-not-working issue on the linux client, and had been resorting to using the webapp when I wanna voice This ends up working fine for me though re: voice Low footprint is nice too