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So then I guess the advice is, if you have to use Discord, stick to the web version?

• SSLy 4y ago
  That, or use armcord if you want something that lives outside the browser session.
• Zetobal 4y ago
  I use ripcord for discord and slack bonus it's a native app and uses about 20mb of ram.
  • derelicta 4y ago
    wow had no idea there were good native apps for discord. im totally gonna try this once im home :))) thx again :)))
    • spoiler 4y ago
      This apparently breaks their TOS, but I don't know if anyone got in trouble over it yet
      • tumult 4y ago
        Can you show where in the TOS third-party clients are disallowed? (The Discord TOS does not even mention third-party clients.)
        • j16sdiz 4y ago
          https://twitter.com/discord/status/1229357198918197248?lang=en https://twitter.com/discord/status/1229357198918197248?lang=... > All 3rd party apps or client modifiers are against our ToS, and the use of them can result in your account being disabled. I don't recommend using them.
          • tumult 4y ago
            That's not the TOS. That's a 3 year old tweet with multiple people in the replies asking to cite where in the TOS it says that, and no further reply from the official account.
            • IntelMiner 4y ago
              Keeping it vague means they can simply shrug and refer to being able to ban accounts at their own discretion
              • tumult 4y ago
                Yeah, that’s already the case with every online service. They don’t need to be vague — they don’t have to give any reason for banning you.
                • spoiler 4y ago
                  Ah, I didn't really read the ToS, but contemplated a third party client a while ago, and was told I best avoid them due to ToS violations. I guess it must've spread through that tweet.
              • blibble 4y ago
                so just sign up again like reddit, bans are entirely meaningless
                • BizarreByte 4y ago
                  Reddit is one of the most difficult sites online to use as a new user. Virtually no subreddits allow new account to post. There are often waiting periods of a month for new accounts and large karma requirements that are difficult to get, because once again subs won’t let you post. Reddit is new user hostile.
                  • blibble 4y ago
    • Karunamon 4y ago
      Be very careful with third-party discord clients; they are officially against TOS and people have permanently lost their accounts over it.
  • FunnyLookinHat 4y ago
    I keep trying to use ripcord, but the reality is a workplace expects you to be able to jump on board every new feature that Slack adds within moments of it's release. Whether that be huddles, threads, recordings, etc. If we could pare our use of Slack down to just text, it would be a great alternative - but until them I'm stuck using the official client.
    • nxpnsv 4y ago
      Is there anything you can't do in slack's web client?
    • sidewndr46 4y ago
      This is a real question: what are Slack huddles supposed to do? I run the native client. While anyone can start a huddle with me, I never see any UI for a huddle. All I get is the audio coming across. To end the huddle I have to force stop Slack and relaunch it.
      • robertlagrant 4y ago
        I really like them. No need to invite people to a meeting; just jump in. E.g. if you have an issue to diagnose as a group you can just stay on the line, and dip in and out where necessary.
        • semi-extrinsic 4y ago
          In Teams you can just call the first person up and then add more people into the call. "Jane Doe is calling you from a group chat" or whatever it says. I'm surprised this is a new-ish feature in Slack?
          • spullara 4y ago
            Not really the same thing. Huddles are voice for channels.
          • robertlagrant 4y ago
  • tomr75 4y ago
    is there a way to get it to save deleted messages?
    • tumult 4y ago
      Ripcord will temporarily remember deleted messages for channels in which you're a moderator. You can view the contents by right-clicking on the message. It won't do this if you aren't a moderator in that channel. This is to help avoid having to use a bot to log all message edits+deletes, usually done to mitigate bad actors saying something bad, getting someone else to report the message or take a screenshot of it, then delete it afterwards.
  • ehaughee 4y ago
    I would love to use Ripcord but I can't find any information on noise suppression/voice focus and that's a requirement for me as I play without push to talk and on mouse and keyboard so all those key presses get sent through to those in my channel. With the 1st party app, despite other issues, none of my key presses come through for people in my channel.
    • crysin 4y ago
      If you have an Nvida card you could use Nvidia broadcast. It runs as a virtual microphone that other apps can target as the voice input. So Nvidia broadcast will receive the raw input from your real microphone, process it, and feed it to any applications that are targeting the Nvidia broadcast mic as their voice input. It also doesn't appear to add any noticeable latency. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-app/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-...
• anon7919 4y ago
  ... and/or use an irc gateway (like bitlbee) if it suits your needs.
• saghm 4y ago
  One sticking point for people might be the way push-to-talk works for the in-browser version; the shortcut to trigger it will only work when you have the browser window focused (I think due to limitations in how browsers can capture inputs when not focused, which is a pretty reasonable policy in general). Not only does this mean you'd need to alt-tab over whenever you want to push to talk (which isn't super easy for a lot of potential use cases, like gaming), but if I remember correctly from trying this out once, you can have even more jarring bugs like "alt-tab over to the browser to hit push-to-talk shortcut, hit the shortcut, alt-tab back before releasing so you can keep talking, and then having the push to talk never deactivate because the browser didn't detect the key-up event due to a different window having focus when it happened".
  • mixedCase 4y ago
    On Linux, I just tested that if you have a Mozilla Firefox window running on X (I tested on XWayland but it should work just as well on X11) with the Discord tab in view, you can use your desktop's/compositor global keyboard shortcut functionality to call xdotool to send a keyup/keydown event without focusing the window, like this: xdotool search --name 'Discord.*— Mozilla Firefox' keydown F9 xdotool search --name 'Discord.*— Mozilla Firefox' keyup F9 I configured web Discord to use F9 as the push to talk button since it seemingly doesn't conflict with anything in Firefox, but you can then bind it to any key or mouse button on your global keyboard shortcut settings. According to some people on StackExchange (I didn't test myself) this doesn't work if you're using Discord on Chromium-based browsers, which seem to reject xdotool events unless the window is focused (which xdotool can do for you, but doesn't work for the PTT usecase). Of course, this doesn't work on Firefox when running native Wayland windows because xdotool is X-only, and ydotool doesn't work either because it emulates a virtual device which would mean you still need to focus the window.
    • wizzwizz4 4y ago
      > this doesn't work if you're using Discord on Chromium-based browsers […] this doesn't work on Firefox when running native Wayland windows It seems like a WebExtension using dispatchEvent could solve both these issues.