The article links to https://github.com/tenable/DiscordClient but this has been deleted. Does someone have a mirror?
Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
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Re: Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord trying to take on Epic and Steam to create a marketplace was perhaps the worst move I've seen in the past few years. Steam is entrenched and Epic is printing money. Discord needs to capitalize on its greatest asset: a massive community. To me, the obvious path forward is doing Patreon like features for servers and perhaps trying to break into the streaming market.
When Discord was making that move, Epic store did not exist, the period when both stores existed was rather short and unevnentful, discord's being on clear decline, epic's not even bare bones and tossing money on any and all early access games in sight.
Why isn't Epic buying Discord?
Re: Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
#73I don't think Discord makes any claims that the audio is P2P encrypted. There are legitimate reasons why Discord might be dropping malformed packets, apart from an indication that they are spying on you (they may be doing that too). 1) to improve audio quality. 2) to help prevent RCE attacks on the destination client. 3) re-encoding at lower bitrates for low bandwidth clients. I don't really see the issue here unless…
Discord spy on an unperson? That's unpossible.
Re: Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
#74The article links to https://github.com/tenable/DiscordClient but this has been deleted. Does someone have a mirror?
Not sure if this is the same as what was on the link you sent, but you can take a look at the Discord Data Mining project [0].
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure there are some businesses using Discord, but they aren't the target audience. The branding and feature set of Discord all make it very clear that it's targeted at PC gamers.
There are a lot of smaller open source projects that are using Discord instead of IRC. I am a member of Reshade, C# OpenTK and general programming servers.
I actually know many opensource projects that moved from the clunkyness of Slack to Discord.
In all fairness, though, the recent releases of Slack made it pretty snappy.
Re: Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
#76I don't think Discord makes any claims that the audio is P2P encrypted. There are legitimate reasons why Discord might be dropping malformed packets, apart from an indication that they are spying on you (they may be doing that too). 1) to improve audio quality. 2) to help prevent RCE attacks on the destination client. 3) re-encoding at lower bitrates for low bandwidth clients. I don't really see the issue here unless…
In their Terms and Agreements it's clearly stated that all data created is owned by Discord and can be used in commercial purposes.
Re: Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Discord was making that move, Epic store did not exist, the period when both stores existed was rather short and unevnentful, discord's being on clear decline, epic's not even bare bones and tossing money on any and all early access games in sight.
Why isn't Epic buying Discord?
What would that get them? It's already clear that Discord's community doesn't translate into success for an associated game distribution platform.
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#78The problem is... There still isn't a clear business model for discord, the advantages of having premium (nitro) are almost non-existing. That's not an excuse for privacy, I know... They tried to create a small competitor to Steam's game marketplace but it didn't work out. They're back to the drawing table. Honestly, that's actually really good for free users, like myself, because we can simply use discord's wide arr…
Discord trying to take on Epic and Steam to create a marketplace was perhaps the worst move I've seen in the past few years. Steam is entrenched and Epic is printing money. Discord needs to capitalize on its greatest asset: a massive community. To me, the obvious path forward is doing Patreon like features for servers and perhaps trying to break into the streaming market.
Honestly I'm surprised they didn't try to enter the space by buying an existing competitor. GoG, or Humble maybe.
It might also be possible they're trying to build critical mass to get bought by some gaming company. Perhaps Amazon for Twitch integration? MS in some bold attempt to buy a userbase for their PC game store?
Re: Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a lot of smaller open source projects that are using Discord instead of IRC. I am a member of Reshade, C# OpenTK and general programming servers.
I actually know many opensource projects that moved from the clunkyness of Slack to Discord. In all fairness, though, the recent releases of Slack made it pretty snappy.
My 70 kb/s connection disagrees. I was barely able to get slack to load, when it did load.
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#80Wasn't skype originally P2P? I wish there was a simple windows voip client that was doing p2p voip. I often experience cuts with skype and discord, I think their servers can have a hard time handling low latency properly.
You could try Jami. It’s fully distributed and improves over Skype and Discord by respecting its users’ freedom. Calls should work fine with it, but text messaging outside of them can be unreliable. https://jami.net/
Jami is missing group text conversations. It's a major work-in-progress.