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		koakuma-chan 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benefits of choosing email over messaging Discord is (or at least was) easy to "implement" because their bot and user API is mostly the same.

dijit 73 days ago [–]

until they ban you under the ToS that says “no third party clients”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435490

theshrike79 72 days ago | [–]

A bot or a bridge isn't a "client".

They just don't want to fight people trying to build a full alternative client for Discord as a bunch of their paid-for stuff is just clien side javascript.

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