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Allow custom clients

The God of commoners 稻神
I want to use my own completely self-written discord client, and I think it would be exciting to see how far client usability, client speed, etc., could be pushed if it became a more competitive, more collaborative area. Discord doesn't have to make its own client's source public but I suspect lots of open source projects would spring up all pushing discord in good directions. I suspect the current ToS may be banning this because it can be used to circumvent Nitro nags. Just write a new ToS that says "custom clients must do x, y, z,...." about how to advertise Nitro to users of the client.
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  • Skye (SkyCorp Global)

    Discord needs to not ban third party clients, full stop. If discord ever makes the ads more intrusive, those of us who loathe ads will need a way to be able to ad block, or we'll just leave.

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  • Sirius

    The main pushback I get from folks on using Discord is that it is quite heavyweight compared to older technologies (e.g. IRC). If there were an officially-supported client that met their needs that would be great, but allowing third-party clients (even if subject to an approval process) seems like it would be less cost to Discord overall.

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