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So maybe they can't sue the company making a third party app. But take Discord for instance. It's against the Discord terms of service to use a third party clie
by MatthiasPortzel 4y ago
So maybe they can't sue the company making a third party app. But take Discord for instance. It's against the Discord terms of service to use a third party client, and there are stories of Discord banning users who do use third-party clients.
Now, Discord doesn't need to sue anyone to stop me from using a third party client—the threat of being banned is enough deterrent to keep me on the official client.
- saurik 4y agoI talked about that in at least half of my original comment. To repeat, Twitterific managed to get to having the kind of marketshare to make that war interesting (in a way Discord clients never have and likely never will: they didn't make the same bargain with third-party app developers that Twitter did, where Twitter left most of the innovation to third-parties).
- ThatMedicIsASpy 4y agoThat is the reason I only use it in my browser to apply custom css and fix their ugly mess - design decisions - to my liking.
- amedvednikov 4y agoDiscord doesn't ban third party clients, only illegal stuff like spamming. From the people at Discord: > I run the infrastructure department at Discord which includes our anti-spam engineering team -- Just want to +1 what you're saying and confirm that we are never trying to ban third party clients (that aren't self-bots). Honestly, it would be a waste of our time and basically do nothing good for Discord. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438440