Comment by Dalewyn
3 years ago
Like I said: Accessed by any client adhering to Discord standards, which are closed and proprietary.
Discord standards include "official Discord", which doesn't take away from the point.
3 years ago
Like I said: Accessed by any client adhering to Discord standards, which are closed and proprietary.
Discord standards include "official Discord", which doesn't take away from the point.
It doesn't take away from the point but it adds to it. Proprietary chat protocols are nothing new but in the past alternative clients were either ignored or blocked. Now it is getting more common to punish the individual users of such clients, like Discord here threatening to nuke your account. This is a much worse situation than just "closed and proprietary standards".
In actual Discord practice, that clause acts more as a liability disclaimer. They do not actively look for and kill third party clients like, say, WhatsApp. However they have an antispam with a high false positive rate, which is tuned to almost always produce a non-spam result with their first party client.