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This is classic “hacker” in the curious and skilled sense of the word. No serious harm and it reminds us apps are not magic and code is cool.
Perhaps closer to "cracker", but I agree that this is the sort of knowledge that the corporates don't want us to know --- so they can attempt to squeeze more $$$ out of us without resistance.
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I suspect it's less they thought "this is a great implementation" and more "if people figure out how to break it, we'll patch it." This is the first time in several years of using Discord that I've heard of anyone even trying to circumvent their access/permissions structure for Nitro, so I see no reason why they'd bother unless this was widespread.
Modded discord clients have been around for quite while. But indeed, the threat of being banned deters most people and if just a handful of people use a modded client discord doesnt care probably.
Recent openAI suddenly disabled their beta testers discord, and I couldn't see who or what we had all been discussion anymore. I wondered if there was a way to export chats so server managers couldn't just cut a community off from each other with no record to browse after. There is a bunch of chrome extensions out there to export discord chats but most seem to have some payment gated features. turns out just copying…
It's a standalone program using the API in a nonstandard way but I don't think anyone's been banned for using it yet.
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All project maintainers: take notes on why your community shouldn’t be built around Discord’s service. Bridge to it only if you must, but don’t make it the primary chat option.
From my experiences discord servers tends to draw people who are least interested in talking about the project and more about casual talk and sharing memes. Most of the time these places feels like an equivalent of shoutbox feature on old forums. Still, I received more support via discord than forums which on the other hand seems to be mostly full of people who vent their complexes and issues on users and lock discus…
There are the anime communities already, so it's not just about projects.
Also, on Discord, you can have pretty serious discussions and organise your projects. But it's never done in #general : you need to create specific rooms where users focus.
The shoutout function is at the heart of the group on Discord.
But Discord won users in the first place by allowing them to create rooms and organize discussions. It was meant to run projects (if you consider a RPG is a project, but whatever, as long as it works)
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Discord is doing so well it's hard to say whether this is actually a problem for them or not. Maybe focusing on this security would have stopped them performing so well
>Discord is doing so well Are they? They try to sell me Nitro at least once every month, which only gives me the impression that they're desperate to increase their revenue stream to make ends meet.
A reminder: everything sent via Discord, including DMs, is being logged in plaintext by Discord and will be available to them and whoever buys them (it was looking to be Microsoft for a while, though now it looks like they will IPO). Simply having an account there normalizes having personal conversations that can be easily data mined for AI, or otherwise used by Discord or their database/systems administrators. Secti…
> Simply having an account there normalizes It's long been normalized, Discord has already won. I'm not saying that it's great, but for certain communities you don't have a choice, besides not participating. It's actually even worse than back then, when it was "everyone has WhatsApp" because you could easily contact the people otherwise, you already had their number. But imho personal conversations are not the draw f…
I use Discord all the time, but I have seen zero reason to get Nitro. Every time they try to upsell it to me the "features" are unnecessary. The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month??? I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue. The rest of the "benefits" - "server boosts", custom Emoji, or a…
Whats wrong with just paying for software you find useful / you want to support? Custom emoji are fun to me, so you just aren't the target audience lol
It's one thing when they raise donations, and they leave you a custom window to put your price. But when you say "these features will cost 10 bucks for you" then it's not about whether you have the money or not, but whether the exchange of goods holds an equal worth for both parties.
And also, in the bizarre world where Discord monthly was 5 bucks but people wanted to pay 10 because it's that good (value is subjective, I get it), and they really want to show their admiration then nothing stops them from paying for 2+ accounts!
I've seen a similar argument for a game that came out that had no battle pass. "Oh I would love to have battle pass in the game, the company deserves the money for the good product", well buy 2+ copies and gift them to your friends or family then. No reason to burden the average player with added micro-transactions on a fully priced product to express gratitude.
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Modded discord clients have been around for quite while. But indeed, the threat of being banned deters most people and if just a handful of people use a modded client discord doesnt care probably.
There are even people like me, who have Nitro and still use modded client for different reasons.
it's borderline (or completely ?) illegal to threaten users to ban them if they choose to use their right to mass-delete their previous messages.
I use Discord all the time, but I have seen zero reason to get Nitro. Every time they try to upsell it to me the "features" are unnecessary. The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month??? I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue. The rest of the "benefits" - "server boosts", custom Emoji, or a…
It's per file, although I also think it applies per message (i.e., you can upload 10 photos at a time, but they can't collectively exceed 50MB on the free plan; you'd have to split them across multiple messages).