Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go

Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go by ameliaquining on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:50PM (#20669011)

Where exactly does it say that custom clients are against the TOS? Those aren't a form of automation. Discord deliberately offers (and this project uses) an API for posting from non-bot accounts, which implies that there are at least some legitimate use cases for using it.

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Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go by empyrical on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:16PM (#20669180)

They discourage custom clients and also they discourage browser extensions that modify the discord interface (like Better Discord)

https://twitter.com/discordapp/status/846597021431713792

https://twitter.com/discordapp/status/972529263269371904?lan...

https://twitter.com/discordapp/status/908000828690182145?lan...

I don't think they will send the banhammer down on you unless you use it for spamming or "self-botting" but it still seems a bit risky

Ripcord seems to have survived this long without incident for its users, for example

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

But they might start cracking down if a certain % of people start using other clients

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Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go by notamy on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:24PM (#20670617)

> Discord deliberately offers (and this project uses) an API for posting from non-bot accounts, which implies that there are at least some legitimate use cases for using it.

The official client uses the exact same API as bot accounts, with the exception of a few endpoints being restricted to certain account types. Any form of "use a user account via API endpoints" outside of OAuth is discouraged, to say the least, although in general they won't actively hunt down people who do so.

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