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They're using HalfShot's appservice bridge I think, which works entirely through the standard Discord API with bot users. IIRC Discord is very much aware of the project.

Discord's generally fine with anything using it's API/gateways as long as it's NOT logging in as a "real" user.

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Well, that would be what they're doing here, no?

There's two ways to connect discord. One is a appservice. You got a bot user that relays everything and you get messages that are basically "BotUser: <Alice> Hello world" using the official API. This is currently allowed, but doesn't allow access to 1:1 chats. The other is "puppeting", the bot logs in as Alice by Alice providing her credentials and hitting endpoints the actual Web app uses. This results in a less obvious, nicer experience for people on he discord side but is the one that is banned

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