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Won't using a 3rd party app for Discord get your account banned?
It's probably against their terms of service, so maybe. It probably depends on a combination of (over)zealous automation and whether they feel it's in their expedient interest to crack down on.
Although like with all things, proceed with caution.
It looks nice, but if you plan to try it as you default Slack client be aware it is lacking many features: - Edit posted messages (big one, TBA) - Authentication w/ XOXC tokens - Loading older messages - Typing indicators - Starring & Pinning things - Search - Sharing messages - Screensharing and Calls (aka Screenhero) - Joining and creating channels
A $20 proof of concept.
See also: Ripcord[1], which has both Slack and Discord support. [1]: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
* No search (Slack/Discord)
* No huddles in Slack
* Thread support in Discord
For these reasons, I typically navigate to Discord/Slack in the browser when I need access to those features. Not ideal, but the snappiness of Ripcord over the slow bloat of Slack/Discord make it worth it to me.
I remember people on HN complaining about responsiveness. Never found it to be a problem personally.
For a very long time (ive not checked recently) slack used more memory that my IDE on a multimillion line c++ project. I used to have to shut down slack to compile on a machine with 128GB ram.
Ripcord survived C&D letters because it didn't charge. I feel bad for OP for putting all this work in, because it's really cool - but you're going to get sued.
I would like to think that as long as you do not brand yourself as slack or violate any trademarks, you should be able to write an app like this. Things like email clients would fall into this category.
Ripcord survived C&D letters because it didn't charge. I feel bad for OP for putting all this work in, because it's really cool - but you're going to get sued.
The first thing I looked for was a comparison with the official Slack client in terms of performance, since that's the only reason why I'd consider using this. Numbers for CPU load, memory use, time to perform certain actions, crashes. Doesn't seem to be anything available on the site regarding this, which is a shame.
I remember people on HN complaining about responsiveness. Never found it to be a problem personally.
I have 300-500ms response when clicking a channel. It’s infuriating. This happens on any browser including Electron.
what is going on in software where you cant even compose text in realtime...
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Won't using a 3rd party app for Discord get your account banned?
Not necessarily, although this gets routinely brought up in the Ripcord Discord server. Ripcord essentially just uses the browser APIs, so it's not really different from opening Discord in Firefox. That being said, Discord can ban people at random for whatever reason they choose, and this has happened before. For the record, I've been using Ripcord with the same Discord account for 3 years, daily.
Ripcord survived C&D letters because it didn't charge. I feel bad for OP for putting all this work in, because it's really cool - but you're going to get sued.