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Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by Jerry8538 »

nonima wrote: post #65
zebracanevra wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Non-nitro users can stream in 1080p60, all they have to do is join a "boosted" server. Which is very easy to do - you can find tons of freely joinable 'official' servers for games, which are boosted, and then join one of the available voice channels.

>all they have to do is join a "boosted" server. I didn't think of this thank you! I wanted to stream in my friend's server for my friends to watch but his server isn't boosted, but now I'm gonna join a random server and stream for strangers instead!

Have you ever noticed the member limit on voice channels? Presumably you join one that lets only you and your friends join the vc.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by tough »

rvnx wrote: post #62
whelp_24 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean cracker in the current sense of the world. And he did the equivalent of inspect element. It was clever, but no real harms were done to any parties.

From a legal perspective you could argue that he is cracking a software, and sharing the crack, and the result is potential revenue loss for Discord

Hopefully the judge has smoked some crack too while we're at it and we have a case

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by tough »

notpushkin wrote: post #100
toastal wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s issue with metadata & the requirement of sharing one’s address book to use WhatsApp. I wouldn’t be surprised if it too like Signal required users have a Android/iOS primary device & a phone number or you can’t use the service which has privacy implications but also feeds the mobile OS duopoly as you can’t choose another OS (or to just not have a phone).

You can use WhatsApp without sharing the address book by using wa.me links instead (e. g. wa.me/+12345556789) to start chats. Still sucks though.

Sounds like a nice idea for an app that just gets your contacts and makes the links nicely, like a whatsapp wrapper lmao

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by Okawari »

toastal wrote: post #83
hinata08 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Matrix isn't better than Discord on that aspect. 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…

And Matrix is currently too heavy to self-host which means relying on Matrix.org (who also controls the spec). My vote would be an XMPP MUC that’s bridged to IRC. This keeps it lightweight & decentralized. Both of these options could be ran with hundreds or thousands of users on a potato compared to Matrix.

I've been selfhosting a dendrite matrix instance for about a year now. I'm only in a few public channels of a few hundred users, but also #matrix:matrix.org which has 44000 users and it hardly uses any resources.

I have no experience with Synapse which was apparently quite the hog as far as I know, but Dendrite is quite lean it seems

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by brookst »

chefandy wrote: post #28
userbinator wrote: post #7

Currently, Discord doesn’t appear to validate on their servers whether the stream being transmitted truly adheres to the criteria of a non-subscribed user I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake.

> I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake. As someone who only sends up PRs containing complete features in their final state implemented exactly as I hoped, I have no idea. Unrelated aside: just started my fifth new job this month. I never seem to jibe with project managers.

People didn’t get your joke, but I think it’s very funny.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by joshstrange »

throwaway31381 wrote: post #35
s1mon wrote: post #21

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…

I like my custom emoji, that's about it. >The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month? Per-file upload limit, it used to be 8 MiB until april which made it worth paying nitro for some.

Hmm, this was the #1 reason I was paying for Nitro (or maybe it's Nitro Lite?). I was sick of my photos being rejected unless I downsized them. I'll probably still keep it for video uploads since those are bigger than 50MB sometimes.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by Thaxll »

userbinator wrote: post #7

Currently, Discord doesn’t appear to validate on their servers whether the stream being transmitted truly adheres to the criteria of a non-subscribed user I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake.

Because this is way more complicated than checking that your CRUD REST API is valid.

We're talking bandwidth here.

Checking for upload is not the issue imo, the issue is that you can watch a 1080p stream a non nytro user, if you don't check it at the upload stage then you should make sure that people can only watch 720p streams.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by nervousDev »

I once tried to go down this road but failed to have a consistent way of patching the client specially after updates and basically give up. Now this method is sparking my "lets crack this open and poke around" hitch again! Is there a simple way to go through the available API through this method? I tried logging everything but its a hot mess with maps, i18n, etc. Wonder if someone has gone through the trouble of creating like a reverse-engineered doc kinda thing

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by t0bia_s »

rvnx wrote: post #59
SSLy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are even people like me, who have Nitro and still use modded client for different reasons.

Being able to delete your previous messages in bulk is a very good reason for example, 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.

How can I delete previous messages in bulk on Discord?

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by Thaxll »

Jnr wrote: post #45
userbinator wrote: post #7

Currently, Discord doesn’t appear to validate on their servers whether the stream being transmitted truly adheres to the criteria of a non-subscribed user I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake.

It doesn't really matter if they check it or not, I had Nitro for a year during pandemic because I thought I could stream in higher quality. In reality the quality was just as bad, and sometimes video looked very pixelated. I have gigabit connection at home and a good GPU that does the encoding but I guess Discord doesn't have any servers near me (~1900km to Rotterdam) and it might be prioritizing low latency. The ex…

Funny enough, Discord uses i3d which is a Rotterdam based compagny, I'm pretty sure they have servers close to you.
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