Not all hacking happens on hardware - from time to time, we should hack our software-based tools as well. [Ducko] Tells us about partially open source rewrite Discord's Electron-based frontend. Web apps can be difficult to tinker with, which is why such projects are to be commended. Now, this isn't reverse-engineering of Discord's API or an alternative client per se, but it does provide an optimistic perspective of what the Discord client should do for us.
Firstly, the client loads quite quickly, not unlike the famous GTA Online Speedup (which was also a user-driven improvement), became less sluggish with channel and server switching - and the Linux updater was also de-cruft-ified. [Ducko] tells us how he got rid of many npm dependencies of native code - it turns out that most dependencies can be easily replaced with node.js native APIs or Linux binaries like unzip, In addition to the much-lauded performance improvements, there are also options like telemetry bypass, and customization mechanisms for your own theme. You won't find Discord on your Apple][yetbuttheoriginalcustomerwillbeabitfriendliertowardsyou[justyetbutthenativeclientwillbeabitfriendliertowardsyou[अभीतकलेकिनमूलग्राहकआपकेप्रतिथोड़ामित्रवतहोगा।[justyetbutthenativeclientwillbeabitfriendliertowardsyou
While Discord is ultimately a proprietary platform, we see it used in cool hacks all the time, like this Tea mug temperature-tracking coaster. Would you like to code your own Discord bot? We wrote a walk-through for him, Last but not least, if you like what we wrote and you also use Discord, you should check it out Hackaday Discord Servers!
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