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Comment by hprotagonist | Hacker News Reader

you realize discord bans people who use third party clients, right?

One should note that doesn't really happen with Ripcord [0] though.

I've seen multiple people be banned from using this client. It does everything in its power to remain unnoticed but you only need to come across the wrong server-side detection update once to get the hammer.

Good to know and unfortunate although not terribly surprising. I guess this is the recommended user experience that the commenter up the thread is suggesting be integrated into thunderbird?

There were some automated bans that happened after an outage (years ago), but those bans got lifted. After that, I haven't seen anyone get banned for using Ripcord. But like all things, YMMV. The benefits of Ripcord outweigh the negatives for me.

> It does everything in its power to remain unnoticed

It reports its user agent as "Ripcord"

> doesn't really happen

Does that mean 0 cases (timeframe?) and official confirmation from the discord team that ripcord is allowed?

If not it can and will happen (as before). Why would it be inherently different with ripcord?

This mostly gets answered by user keb_ (see below) but I will add that Ripcord and Discord have "tussled" before: exchanged emails, etc.

Last I heard Discord maintains the TOS are getting violated, but apparently the popularity of Ripcord keeps the conflict mostly at bay.

Only bans I've heard of using Ripcord has been when people join servers on that client. Don't know how prevalent it is tho.

Yeesh. I mean kind of makes sense but it doesn't make want to use them more...

Headless chrome isn't a third party client.

That's the last thing I want in my Mozilla made email client.

I'm pretty happy with added Matrix support though, may make me take a look at Thunderbird again in addition to aerc.

Yes. It is. It's been confirmed multiple times that even using browser plugins that interact with the Discord client code in any way counts, in their opinion, as a "third party client".

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