Discussion

ai_slop_hater: I can already tell it's vibe coded because you listed all those "production" features like exponential back-off and rate limiting.

KomoD: Well FYI that's against Discord's TOS, you risk getting banned if you use a third-party client.There's already clients like dissent, dorion, abaddon and previously ripcord (RIP my fav)

Scaled: I got my account verification locked for this and I wasn't even using third party clients. Discord and their AI moderation is rubbish.

kill-ux: rate limiting?

kill-ux: aa

squigz: Why would I switch to a client that doesn't have voice chat, one of the primary use-cases for Discord?

embedding-shape: Not everyone uses software the same way. I've had Discord and used it on at least on a weekly basis since 2017-2018 sometime, and can't remember I've used the voice chat a single time since then, I couldn't even tell you where to find it in the UI unless I'd look it up.

jeroenhd: There are already a bunch of these. gtkcord (disset) comes to mind for an open-source native client: https://github.com/diamondburned/dissentThey seem to be most popular with the open source crowd. I think you could gain traction with the "normal" users by also including many of the gaming features that other native clients lack (game streaming, voice/video chat, soundboards, the lot). Also maybe consider actually supporting all of Discord's chat features, even the ones you don't personally use; things like forums, image boards, announcement channels, and all the other less-obvious Discord features are rarely implemented by third party clients and make for a pretty limited experience if you're in a server that uses them.I don't think most people on Discord really care about the 2 second throbber on startup or the 500MiB of RAM that Discord wastes when all other applications on the system do the same. Discord isn't the fastest application and it's wasting resources, but it's not too slow. However, the same way Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. has managed to sell Opera as a "gamer" browser with a non-insignificant market share, I think you could get traction by highlighting the performance aspects such a streamlined client permits.FWIW Discord's TOS do not allow for third-party clients, and they have banned people using them (though usually only because the clients interacted with the APIs regarding friends, because those can be abused by spambots and scammers).> So are Nitro featuresI'd tread very carefully with supporting Nitro features in a custom client. If their API has endpoints for them I think you may be in the clear, but if there's even a remote chance that you'll be giving free users paid features, Discord will take notice quickly. Part of Discord's income is derived from spamming people with Discord Nitro promotions. If your alternative clients will get big enough without these, they'll probably notice.

petcat: I advise not to waste any time/tokens building clients for 3rd party platforms even if they claim to allow it (Discord doesn't and will ban you).Twitter, Reddit, etc. are all infamous rug-pullers that should have taught everyone this lesson permanently.

Karsteski: You are literally just lying? There is approximately nothing in this repo: https://github.com/txtsd/kindToo many posts on HN now are just nasty liars like this OP looking to bullshit others.

samlinnfer: IRC client?

txtsd: While I can't argue against the risk, all these third party clients continue to be allowed to exist.Ripcord and discordo were my favorites amongst the alternatives.kind is the missing Qt FOSS alternative.

cube00: >While I can't argue against the risk, all these third party clients continue to be allowed to exist.Reddit allowed it for a while too until they smelt sweet IPO money.All it takes is some revenue generating idea that the third party client doesn't support and it's curtains.

crimsonnoodle58: As others have said, you are only risking being banned. You would be better off putting that effort towards a discord alternative with all the same features that people can move to.With their recent hostilities regarding age verification [1], there has been a lot of interest in alternatives.The only problem is people are used to all the features discord provides, and alternatives [2] currently are nowhere near feature parity.[1] https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-...[2] https://www.teamspeak.com/

mentos: I think Discord performs greatAs an Unreal game dev what I’ve wanted to remake in QT is the Epic Games Launcher.I think Epic may be underway on this now but if you did a good enough job I feel like there may still be a window to pitch them on acquiring your work.

wqaatwt: > you listedThat seems like an assumption in this case