(Obligatory disclaimer: I don't work for Discord, I just use it heavily and make a bunch of proper bots for it)
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
But they might start cracking down if a certain % of people start using other clients
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.
It's not very good because:
- notifications work badly for me (notifying a lot more than I'd like, I briefly tried to get it to only notify me when someone called me specifically, but I can't couldn't find a way that wouldn't involve going through all the channels
- it's slow and uses too much memory for my puny little pc
- it's hard to keep track of the last read message and current latest message. It requires clicks and it's clunky to use.
- this is a personal one, I find the interface really ugly and I value beauty in my UIs
If there was a server I was incredibly excited about I could put up with it. But given my mild interest, I end up never logging in. If there was a terminal UI that I could leave running in the background, not taking too many resources, I'd definitely leave it on a tab and interact on topics I found interesting, just like I do currently with IRC.
It's all so bad. Wasted UI space. Takes up my entire screen. Sys req is way out of proportion for a chat client. Weird UI prompts.
You can collapse the channel list if the channels are grouped together.
They also recently added server folders so you can collapse the server list.
>Wasted UI space. Takes up my entire screen.
You don't have to use it in full screen... just resize the window...
Why is that in a 80x24 terminal I have everything on screen while typical Electron applications require one workspace per application otherwise the crucial data becomes ugly? Just let us resize bits or make them collapsible or something.
Using a centralized service like Discord where you are the product, where the protocol is intentionally and legally enfoced as proprietary, is a real bad idea.
Parent complains that Discord 'servers' are misnamed because they are not literally individual servers. I asked them if they have a similar gripe with IRC, because IRC 'channels' are named that after radio/tv channels, but they are not literally radio channels.