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Cordless Project Closes Down

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Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by notatoad »

ReactiveJelly wrote: post #20
RyJones wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re an owner of a slack instance, you can export all of the history without paying.

Export to what? Can I import it into Matrix? I assumed all these SaaSS products are built like carnivorous plants - The spikes only point in. I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless.

I don't know about matrix, but you can import your slack archive into mattermost. So whatever the export is clearly well-structured enough to be useful.

https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html?hi...

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by himujjal »

vertis wrote: post #9

It really is time to start a push to move open communities to open source software. Running a whole bunch of open communities out of slack and discord has always surprised me. Slack is particularly bad with making anything longer than 10k messages inaccessible. The amount of internet history being lost in these groups is boggling.

What are the good open source alternatives out there?

DuckDuckGo'd a few ones. But not convincing ones.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by tumult »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #18
lights0123 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I got banned because of ToS violation today No? The part of the ToS was never mentioned.

But... context... The rest of the first paragraph also make it pretty clear he was banned because of cordless. If you're still not convinced, the author added later in the readme: > WARNING: Third party clients are discouraged and against the Discord TOS. There have already been cordless users that got banned, including me (Bios-Marcel, the maker and maintainer)

But where in the Discord ‘ToS’ does it say that?

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by junon »

Discord bots, on multiple occassions, have DM'd me child pornography with invite links to related servers. I have no idea how these bots have found me or why they are allowed to message me, and so far any attempt to make Discord answer me about them has failed.

This earned yet another twitter DM to them telling them they fucked up. They benefit directly from the open source community so this is a huge "fuck you" to everyone involved.

Slimey, shitty tactics. I was previously going to run a company through them but now I'm going to evaluate other options.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by junon »

polyzium wrote: post #12
iAmir wrote: post #11

as a contributor, this is a very sad thing to happen, there should be at least a way to submit custom clients and digitally sign them so Discord can allow using those that are accepted

I'm the contributor regarding the VTxxx stuff. I agree with your idea, considering the fact that Discord uses Electron which is just sandboxed Chromium, which uses quite a lot of RAM. For a product marketed towards gamers (or at least was), this is not good. What a shitty reality. I wish I can go back to TS3 and its Qt client... oh well, we have Mumble anyway.

> considering the fact that Discord uses Electron

Typical company using open source but also giving the middle finger to open sourcers.

Each time this happens, Stallman seems a little bit more sane.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by dan1234 »

I know modding the official client is against the rules, but how is a replacement client in breach when there’s a public API?

Does anyone know the specific rule, in the ToS, that Cordless breaks?

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Post by enriquto »

junon wrote: post #26
polyzium wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the contributor regarding the VTxxx stuff. I agree with your idea, considering the fact that Discord uses Electron which is just sandboxed Chromium, which uses quite a lot of RAM. For a product marketed towards gamers (or at least was), this is not good. What a shitty reality. I wish I can go back to TS3 and its Qt client... oh well, we have Mumble anyway.

> considering the fact that Discord uses Electron Typical company using open source but also giving the middle finger to open sourcers. Each time this happens, Stallman seems a little bit more sane.

> Each time this happens, Stallman seems a little bit more sane.

He always seemed sane to me. If anything, it's the people who knowingly use non-free software (or develop against non-free APIs) who seem a bit insane.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

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Post by jnwatson »

junon wrote: post #25

Discord bots, on multiple occassions, have DM'd me child pornography with invite links to related servers. I have no idea how these bots have found me or why they are allowed to message me, and so far any attempt to make Discord answer me about them has failed. This earned yet another twitter DM to them telling them they fucked up. They benefit directly from the open source community so this is a huge "fuck you" to e…

I'm confused. What did Discord do wrong? Spam is a problem across all message platforms.
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