Re:I am closing down the Cordless project
by m12k on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:34AM
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I'm pretty sure the official client doesn't have the scriptability needed to be useful for perpetrating spam attacks. So the point being made was that banning 3rd party clients is one of the most effective ways to prevent spam, but at the cost of also banning benign use too.
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The official client is basically a chrome instance. You can press ctrl+shift+I and put in any script you like.
So far (to my knowledge) discord hasn't made any effort to prevent modding of its official client. Most people just do it to inject css etc.
They don't typically care about client mods as far as I can tell, the use case they ban accounts for is using a third party client entirely.
That being said I don't think slack/discord should be a thing for open source communities.
Re:I am closing down the Cordless project
by sudosysgen on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:49AM
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As an Electron app, you can make the official client do literally anything with a bit of effort.
There are third-party mods for the client (see ex. https://github.com/powercord-org/powercord), but those are generally responsible in discouraging API abuse.
Re:I am closing down the Cordless project
by jaywalk on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:58AM
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What does Powercord do? This is the first time I've been made aware of third-party mods for Discord, so maybe there's something obvious that I'm missing, but even looking at their website (https://powercord.dev/) there seems to be absolutely no information about what it actually does.