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Comment by ameliaquining | Hacker News Reader

Where exactly does it say that custom clients are against the TOS? Those aren't a form of automation. Discord deliberately offers (and this project uses) an API for posting from non-bot accounts, which implies that there are at least some legitimate use cases for using it.

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They discourage custom clients and also they discourage browser extensions that modify the discord interface (like Better Discord)

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

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

But they might start cracking down if a certain % of people start using other clients

> Discord deliberately offers (and this project uses) an API for posting from non-bot accounts, which implies that there are at least some legitimate use cases for using it.

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.

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