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I'm pretty sure the official client doesn't have the scriptability needed to be useful for perpetrating spam attacks. So the point being made was that banning 3
by m12k 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the official client doesn't have the scriptability needed to be useful for perpetrating spam attacks. So the point being made was that banning 3rd party clients is one of the most effective ways to prevent spam, but at the cost of also banning benign use too.
- notamy 6y agoThere are third-party mods for the client (see ex. https://github.com/powercord-org/powercord https://github.com/powercord-org/powercord), but those are generally responsible in discouraging API abuse.
- jaywalk 6y agoWhat does Powercord do? This is the first time I've been made aware of third-party mods for Discord, so maybe there's something obvious that I'm missing, but even looking at their website (https://powercord.dev/ https://powercord.dev/) there seems to be absolutely no information about what it actually does.
- 2fast4you 6y agoIt seems to be a platform for other plugins/themes to target
- sudosysgen 6y agoAs an Electron app, you can make the official client do literally anything with a bit of effort.
- rozab 6y agoThe official client is basically a chrome instance. You can press ctrl+shift+I and put in any script you like. So far (to my knowledge) discord hasn't made any effort to prevent modding of its official client. Most people just do it to inject css etc.
- ev1 6y agoThey don't typically care about client mods as far as I can tell, the use case they ban accounts for is using a third party client entirely. That being said I don't think slack/discord should be a thing for open source communities.