Text Terminal Client
There's times when I'm using a text-terminal only environment and have no desktop environment at all. ( And therefore no GUI, no way to launch Discord. ) During these times, I'd like to still be able to keep up conversing with my friends. I also would like a client with a smaller memory footprint. Would you be willing to greenlight and support a text only Discord client? I can help develop it if need be. It'd be nice to have this as an official client for communicating on the Discord network since most of my friends aren't willing to use multiple chat services at once or jump to Jabber or IRC. It would also help me to be able to monitor my servers during times when I do not have full capacity to use Discord's normal client or the browser mode. Personally I'd also use this just for personal usage. Images could be displayed as links in the text client. Naturally voice and video call wouldn't be supported, but I wouldn't need or want it in these circumstances. As it stands, I have to resort to a relay bot, which I consider to be an inelegant solution. The amount of overhead for such a client should be minimal and if you allowed custom clients, a plethora would already exist.
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Bump. It's absurd that it's not supported
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Welcome to the age of anti-minimalism. Why open anything from the terminal instantaneously when you can wait 15 seconds for it to open, install some mystery update, and suffer through a laggy, molasses-coated user interface? This is the current state of the software industry.
The reason for this, is that small, simple programs (like a basic terminal client) are very easy to understand and duplicate, so nobody would pay for them. There is no money to be made with simple software, and thus software companies must engineer their applications to be as obscure and complex as possible.
Unless there's a "nitro" feature to enable it and the company can make money, they don't care, and they view it as a threat to their profit margin. That is why it is banned.
This service is aimed at gamers (read: Windows users) who will not typically understand or care about using the terminal.
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I am liking discord less and less. There is a server that I am active in that I may try to convince to move to a different platform (with a bridge bot of course).
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bump I too would like to have discord in the terminal
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I hate doing :+1:'s, but here it actually does make sense to raise the imporance of this. There are open source versions out there but I have been told that people fear getting banned when using/developing them? In official statement on that matter would certainly help at least. :-)
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an official tui would be very convenient. bump
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This really needs to happen. Bump!
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This would be fantastic. Bump!
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Bump!! Please give us a TUI/CLI solution or allow us to use the third party TUI/CLI apps out there!!!
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Bump! Tui is a must! Let's do it :)
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This is a phenomenal idea, bump bump bump!
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please
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