cordless
adium
cordless | adium | |
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16 | 4 | |
1,349 | 285 | |
- | 4.2% | |
9.0 | 0.0 | |
over 3 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
Go | Objective-C | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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cordless
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Unlocking Discord Nitro Features for Free
There’s a lot of instances, for example the developer of one of the alternative clients https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
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Removing discord client cordless from package manager
The cordless project https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless is now abandoned and archived, and the maintainer has been banned for a ToS violation.
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Richard Stallman approves
People who have been caught using third-party clients have been banned before.
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We shouldn't use Discord to help with issues
The developer of the cordless Discord client got banned, presumably for using a third-party client.
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Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
The only blocking issue is that their success (and subsequent spam/abuse issues) is greater than their focus on open access, to the extent that they formally disallow 3rd party client access.
So at the one end of the spectrum with have IMAP/SMTP, in the middle we have things like Telegram (everything's GPL3! The protocol is terrible and here are all the details! Go nuts!)... and at the other end we have Discord: One Protocol, One Allowed Client™®©.
Do I use Discord? No.
Would I like to use Discord? Yes.
Why can't I use Discord? The client is too much for my older laptop.
Would I like to use Discord? Yes there are a pile of people on there I'm missing out
Can I do anything about it? Yes, I have two options:
1) use https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ until it suffers the same fate as https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
2) throw the whole thing to the wind until I have better hardware
Hmm. You know come to think about it the chances are people with similar interests are probably also stuck on older hardware too and probably won't be using Discord either...
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
> There are alternate Discord clients, and — unlike Slack — Discord doesn't try to actively prevent people from writing alternate clients against their API.
Yes, they do.
https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless:
> Hey, so I know this is somewhat of a bummer, but I got banned because of ToS violation today. This seemed to be connected to creating a new PM channel via the /users/@me endpoint. As that's basically a confirmation for what we've believed would never be enforced, I decided to not work on the cordless project anymore. I'll be taking down cordless in package managers in hope that no new users will install it anymore without knowing the risks. I believe that if you manage to build it yourself, you've probably read the README and are aware of the risks. I'll keep the repository up, but might archive it at some point. And yes, you'll still be able to use existing binaries for as long as discord doesn't introduce any more breaking changes. However, be aware that the risk of getting a ban will only get higher with time!
https://github.com/atlx/discord-term:
> Disclaimer: So-called "self-bots" are against Discord's Terms of Service and therefore discouraged. I am not responsible for any loss or restriction whatsoever caused by using self-bots or this software. That being said, there's no one stopping you from risking using an account, so go head!
- Wish we could bring a Discord terminal client like this back
- Test
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No shield of privacy though
Worth noting the developer of another third party client, Cordless, recently had their account disabled, which ended with the project sadly being abandoned.
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How to be social in the terminal
To be honest, I am a fan of the excellent cordless application. Unfortunately, the creator was banned from the service for violating the terms of service. So it is not recommended anymore.
adium
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New company "new" projects
I love classic IM apps, and I want to give the macOS instant messaging app "Adium" a complete rejuvenation for Apple Silicon because it's last update was over 5 years ago and I've needed a good XMPP client for Mac because I've started using it. But almost the WHOLE. THING. is written in Objective-C, containing no Swift code whatsoever. It's so old, it still has growl (old 3rd party macOS notification system before Apple introduced native notifications) within it. And I know that doing so would be very, very difficult.
- Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS
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Pidgin: Pidgin, the Universal Chat Client
Looks like work is being done in a branch: https://github.com/adium/adium/commits/adium-1.5.11.asher.10...
What are some alternatives?
weechat-discord - Weechat plugin for Discord support - https://weechat.org/ https://discord.com/
awesome-pidgin-plugins - A list of Pidgin plugins to support modern networks and features
discord-term - Extensible Discord terminal client
purple-facebook - Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple (moved from jgeboski/purple-facebook)
BetterDiscord
purple-gowhatsapp - Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.
BetterDiscord - Better Discord enhances Discord desktop app with new features.
colloquy - Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client for macOS and iOS! Latest Mac builds: https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy/releases
maubot - A plugin-based Matrix bot system.
purple-hangouts
ddgr - :duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal