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Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go by notamy on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:45AM (#20667507)
> I've never understood these tech company's intolerance to 3rd party clients, which are almost always niche or used by the ad-blocker using tech savvy subset of their userbase.

In the case of Discord specifically, iirc there has been issues in the past with abusive behaviour coming from people automating their own accounts (spambots etc.), which was one of the main reasons it was prohibited.

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Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go by dmix on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:06PM (#20668735)
Banning all 3rd party clients and shutting down apis seems like an overreaction to spam... just give them keys which can be disabled.
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Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go by dylz on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:20PM (#20669890)
They already do disable keys. The official client collects a ton of hardware information and posts it back to Discord and a third party repeatedly.
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