In my view, what this ultimately is is a free Discord client. The server is there because I assume the developer liked Discord’s API and wanted to be able to self host a server using it, but I imagine the majority of users will be interested in using this client with discord.com.
Keep in mind that “don’t use proprietary platform, switch to x/y/z” doesn’t account for the unfortunate reality that people may have contacts on that platform and switching wholesale and cutting off contact with those people is an unreasonable tradeoff. While a completely free service would be ideal, using a free client with a non-free service is still an improvement.
In my view, what this ultimately is is a free Discord client.
Ah, that makes more sense. I thought it was a Discord clone which couldn’t interface with the closed service. Hope Discord doesn’t nuke the client’s abilities to log in and use all of the features, if that’s even possible right now.
While a completely free service would be ideal, using a free client with a non-free service is still an improvement.
Exactly! More Free is better, even if you’re still using proprietary services, you can read the code and don’t have to trust a black box or invite malicious tracking and tracing onto your desktop.
Keep in mind that “don’t use proprietary platform, switch to x/y/z” doesn’t account for the unfortunate reality that people may have contacts on that platform
That’s not what I was suggesting, I was merely asking what compelled the devs to write yet another chat platform. Everyone is doing it these days, y’know?
In my view, what this ultimately is is a free Discord client. The server is there because I assume the developer liked Discord’s API and wanted to be able to self host a server using it, but I imagine the majority of users will be interested in using this client with discord.com.
Keep in mind that “don’t use proprietary platform, switch to x/y/z” doesn’t account for the unfortunate reality that people may have contacts on that platform and switching wholesale and cutting off contact with those people is an unreasonable tradeoff. While a completely free service would be ideal, using a free client with a non-free service is still an improvement.
Ah, that makes more sense. I thought it was a Discord clone which couldn’t interface with the closed service. Hope Discord doesn’t nuke the client’s abilities to log in and use all of the features, if that’s even possible right now.
Exactly! More Free is better, even if you’re still using proprietary services, you can read the code and don’t have to trust a black box or invite malicious tracking and tracing onto your desktop.
That’s not what I was suggesting, I was merely asking what compelled the devs to write yet another chat platform. Everyone is doing it these days, y’know?