Doesn't using this with Discord run a risk of your account getting banned for us...

doublerabbit · on Jan 21, 2021

If I can login to your service with the API given, there should be no reason for a ban. And this is what annoys me with today's communication protocols; your forced to enjoy their service only with their provided application.

It never used to be like this. MSN messenger,AIM even YIM; they all had FOSS applications.

aquaticsunset · on Jan 21, 2021

They didn't start that way though. It wasn't until they were forced to play nice under regulatory action.

stryan · on Jan 20, 2021

They're using HalfShot's appservice bridge I think, which works entirely through the standard Discord API with bot users. IIRC Discord is very much aware of the project.

Discord's generally fine with anything using it's API/gateways as long as it's NOT logging in as a "real" user.

timdorr · on Jan 20, 2021

Well, that would be what they're doing here, no?

Macha · on Jan 21, 2021

There's two ways to connect discord. One is a appservice. You got a bot user that relays everything and you get messages that are basically "BotUser: <Alice> Hello world" using the official API. This is currently allowed, but doesn't allow access to 1:1 chats. The other is "puppeting", the bot logs in as Alice by Alice providing her credentials and hitting endpoints the actual Web app uses. This results in a less obvious, nicer experience for people on he discord side but is the one that is banned

saagarjha · on Jan 20, 2021

I have yet to see any verbiage in the Discord ToS that mentions this…do they really not read their own legalese?

brianush1 · on Jan 22, 2021

It's not in the Discord terms of service, it's in the Discord bot API terms of service.

acct776 · on Jan 20, 2021

After a disclaimer, that sounds like a problem between the user and the Discord people.

jakelazaroff · on Jan 20, 2021

Yes — I would be the user, and I would like to avoid that problem.

kitkat_new · on Jan 20, 2021

t2bot.io hosts a Discord bridge and to my knowledge it is officially allowed by Discord (else they could not have more than 100+ bridge users).

So I imagine there might be the possibility of it being allowed for Beeper as well.

Half-Shot · on Jan 20, 2021

t2bot.io uses webhook/bot based bridging which at least doesn't trigger the "no custom clients" clause (as you aren't using any real user account tokens)

The broader question of whether bridges are allowed seems to be broadly yes as there are many other bridges out there for Discord (IRC/slack ones) and those haven't been shut down either.

I think so long as you aren't abusive, Discord don't care.