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Comment by skeaker | Hacker News Reader

In the case of Discord which would be today's MSN Messenger, it's not often done because your account will be terminated if you are found to be using a modded client.

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Lots of people use BetterDiscord (which is EULA compliant afaik) without a problem. Discord is more hackable than anything thanks to the web UI.

The last I heard, BetterDiscord was actually against discord's TOS[0].

[0]: https://nitter.42l.fr/discord/status/908000828690182145

It is, but I've never seen anyone get banned for using it.

Their API is open therefore I don't think they have any right to complain, my homebrew user API for scraping is unbanned and so is BetterDiscord

Their API being freely accessible is irrelevant. If they decided to ban anyone using their API differently from their official client, they would be entirely within their rights. They probably won't though. It'd be a waste of time for them, bad publicity, and would just make the custom clients harder to detect instead of making them go away.

I don't have beef in the game, FWIW. I have greasemonkey loaded in my firefox and inject a bunch of custom mods in various webpages, including discord, to automate various parts of my workflow. Discord could probably detect it and ban me, but I guess so long as I don't use it for nefarious purposes, they won't.

> Discord is more hackable than anything thanks to the web UI.

I thought Discord uses Qt?

It’s electron.

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