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This used to be fairly common, back in the old days. Programs like Pidgin unified many messengers into a single app. For a while, many messengers actually shar
by tazjin 1y ago
This used to be fairly common, back in the old days. Programs like Pidgin unified many messengers into a single app.
For a while, many messengers actually shared underlying protocols (e.g. Google Talk & Facebook were both using XMPP at some point, and you could even cross-message).
Nowadays this is much harder. There's some exceptions (Telegram) with open client protocols, but I wouldn't wanna try and implement something like Discord, it'll be a never-ending tarpit.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoDiscord is (or at least was) easy to "implement" because their bot and user API is mostly the same.
- dijit 1y agountil they ban you under the ToS that says “no third party clients”. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435490
- theshrike79 1y agoA bot or a bridge isn't a "client". They just don't want to fight people trying to build a full alternative client for Discord as a bunch of their paid-for stuff is just clien side javascript.