cordless

The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted. (by Bios-Marcel)

Cordless Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to cordless

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better cordless alternative or higher similarity.

cordless reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of cordless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.
  • Unlocking Discord Nitro Features for Free
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
    There’s a lot of instances, for example the developer of one of the alternative clients https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
  • Removing discord client cordless from package manager
    1 project | /r/voidlinux | 8 Oct 2022
    The cordless project https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless is now abandoned and archived, and the maintainer has been banned for a ToS violation.
  • Richard Stallman approves
    2 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 29 Jul 2022
    People who have been caught using third-party clients have been banned before.
  • We shouldn't use Discord to help with issues
    7 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 4 Jul 2022
    The developer of the cordless Discord client got banned, presumably for using a third-party client.
  • Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2021
    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...

  • How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2021
    > 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
    1 project | /r/discordapp | 26 Jul 2021
  • Test
    1 project | /r/u_the314bot | 15 Jul 2021
  • No shield of privacy though
    2 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 14 May 2021
    Worth noting the developer of another third party client, Cordless, recently had their account disabled, which ended with the project sadly being abandoned.
  • How to be social in the terminal
    10 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2021
    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.
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