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>When Discord rolls out a new feature, you can trust it to work for everyone on day one. If they have a supported up-to-date browser, yeah... >There is no que

>When Discord rolls out a new feature, you can trust it to work for everyone on day one. If they have a supported up-to-date browser, yeah... >There is no querying available features for the other side Right. If your browser isn't on the short list, it just isn't supported. Want to access discord from a tty over ssh? Go fuck yourself, not supported. Want to access it through your custom text-to-speech system? Go fuck yourself, not supported.

dtx1 4y ago
> Right. If your browser isn't on the short list, it just isn't supported. Want to access discord from a tty over ssh? Go fuck yourself, not supported. Want to access it through your custom text-to-speech system? Go fuck yourself, not supported. Are you seriously mad that a company selling a commercial product doesn't support tty support for their browser app?
- grey_earthling 4y ago
  This demonstrates why a company selling a commercial product is a poor substitute for an open standard.
- daptaq 4y ago
  Indirectly, the issue is rather that they will ban you if you don't use their client, even if it comes at no cost to them (setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device). It doesn't need to be a tty client, it could be a client for a older phone, a native client for GNOME, a client with more features and extensibility, or whatever. They do not know best what every person's wants or needs are. And until this issue is overcome (which I don't expect it to be), the service is unfit for general usage.
  - GekkePrutser 4y ago
    > setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device I think you're underestimating how lucrative spyware is. Remember, Google is basically funded entirely by spyware and 'spyservices'. Data is the new gold. Unfortunately it's your data and someone else's gold :(
    - daptaq 4y ago
      I think it would have been conventional to add a "\s" to the end of that sentence?
      - GekkePrutser 4y ago
        I missed that, sorry :)
- DarylZero 4y ago
  I don't know why you're bringing my emotions into it. I don't think Discord should exist, and the fact that it's a commercial product shaped by the economic self-interest of one company is the reason it's so bad. You talk about it like the commercial motives actually justify the negative properties. "Someone's making money! How can you object??"
  - dtx1 4y ago
    - DarylZero 4y ago
      You're not even being honest about what I said.
      - dang 4y ago
        Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, in several threads, including crossing into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that kind of thing because it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

dtx1 4y ago

> Right. If your browser isn't on the short list, it just isn't supported. Want to access discord from a tty over ssh? Go fuck yourself, not supported. Want to access it through your custom text-to-speech system? Go fuck yourself, not supported. Are you seriously mad that a company selling a commercial product doesn't support tty support for their browser app?

grey_earthling 4y ago
This demonstrates why a company selling a commercial product is a poor substitute for an open standard.
daptaq 4y ago
Indirectly, the issue is rather that they will ban you if you don't use their client, even if it comes at no cost to them (setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device). It doesn't need to be a tty client, it could be a client for a older phone, a native client for GNOME, a client with more features and extensibility, or whatever. They do not know best what every person's wants or needs are. And until this issue is overcome (which I don't expect it to be), the service is unfit for general usage.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  > setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device I think you're underestimating how lucrative spyware is. Remember, Google is basically funded entirely by spyware and 'spyservices'. Data is the new gold. Unfortunately it's your data and someone else's gold :(
  - daptaq 4y ago
    I think it would have been conventional to add a "\s" to the end of that sentence?
    - GekkePrutser 4y ago
      I missed that, sorry :)
DarylZero 4y ago
I don't know why you're bringing my emotions into it. I don't think Discord should exist, and the fact that it's a commercial product shaped by the economic self-interest of one company is the reason it's so bad. You talk about it like the commercial motives actually justify the negative properties. "Someone's making money! How can you object??"
- dtx1 4y ago
  - DarylZero 4y ago
    You're not even being honest about what I said.
    - dang 4y ago
      Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, in several threads, including crossing into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that kind of thing because it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.