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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:21AM (#28207805)
Ripcord is lovely, I'm a paying customer[0] and highly recommend it. I used it for years with Slack, and have only good things to say about the experience. It's also a living proof that all the bloat in Slack and similar apps is absolutely not necessary.

That said, the issue with Ripcord and similar is that they're all living on borrowed time - and using them means risking your own account. It's only a matter of time before Slack and Discord start to ban people using alternate clients - and then poof, Ripcord is dead.

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[0] - Fancy way of saying "bought a license when the dev finally enabled throwing some money towards them".

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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by antihero on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:46PM (#28212686)
> It's only a matter of time before Slack and Discord start to ban people using alternate clients

Pretty sure in the case of Slack that their business customers will have words when a bunch of their developers can't suddently communicate with the business...

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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by void_mint on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:13PM (#28214329)
I'd wager those devs will be told to use the official Slack client.
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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by antihero on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:09AM (#28218733)
So there’s no loss to using ripcord in the mean time.
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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:15AM (#28219082)
There isn't, as long as you're willing to tolerate the risk of getting your account banned for blatant ToS violation. Companies like Slack tend to ban first, ask question never, and good luck reaching customer support if you aren't a paying business customer.

(FWIW, I judged the risk was wort the effort in my case, and was a happy Ripcord user for the years I had to use Slack.)

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