Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by Lowkeyloki on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:23PM
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I'm not very familiar with Discord, but I thought the same about Slack. Slack has been aggressive in the past sending C&D letters to those who threaten their walled garden. I'm not saying it'll definitely happen in this case and I wish all the best to the developers and users of Ripcord. I sympathize with their want for non-electron desktop clients. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if they received a terse and disapproving letter from Slack's legal team.
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Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by helge5 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:33PM
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> Slack has been aggressive in the past sending C&D letters
Could you elaborate? Slack provides client tokens and they don't seem to forbid that in the way Discord does (in fact they explicitly provide client tokens via OAuth).
Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by Lowkeyloki on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:06PM
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To be fair, the ones I specifically remember were various browser extensions and plug-ins that would modify the browser version of Slack's official client.
However, I could have sworn there were a few full-fledged clients that Slack didn't like. I feel like one of them was a terminal-based client.