I am closing down the Cordless project

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This has been well known for a while; they block all third party clients and libraries outside of using their official bot API.<p>Having been on the receiving end of over 50k compromised accounts attacking my server (with verified phone enabled); largely stolen oauth&#x2F;access tokens from real users, I can also see why they would do that as a platform owner.<p>On the other hand, as a rms-thoughtpattern, this is awful.

Discords around financial or economic topics (e.g. cryptocurrencies, Steam trading) are heavily abused by scammers that use large numbers of bots to attack or phish users. I could see an argument where Discord wants to keep control over how they are fighting such abuse, and banning all non-granted API access could be one part of that.

This isn&#x27;t really surprising since Discord owns the whole API and it was only a matter of time this would happen which is why I have little hope for third-party clients for GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube etc, since they have official clients for them. [0]<p>Either the API gets blocked for third-party clients, or you purchase a high price for it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22609319" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22609319</a>

This project seemed innocuous enough. And it&#x27;s a shame Discord killed it. As long as services are centralized, platform owners keep doing things like this.

I wonder how long until Discord starts blocking things like Matrix or IRC Bridges. That or the Bot API may already be useful enough to say something &quot;works&quot;, but is so functionally useless that you have no reason to use it. (e.g. you can bridge to a channel, but not bridge instant messages)

AOL Instant Messenger wars returned.

Isn&#x27;t Didcord on-premise? How could he be banned? Hopefully someone will be able to answer. Please don&#x27;t downvote only because you think the question is stupid.

Can someone please do an ELI5 for this? I have no idea what it is, what it relates to, or why it&#x27;s important, other than:<p>* It&#x27;s about &#x27;bots, and<p>* It relates to Discord.<p>Thanks.

Reminds of a similar ICQ policy.how does discord enforce this? Do they use a similar tactics like a frequent protocol changes?

As their terms of use have said since day 1. What’s the news?

Discord bans users for not adhering to the terms of service is a better title.

This kind of behavior should be illegal. Remind me again why anyone here is using proprietary chat software? Just use IRC, or if you simply must use something else, use Matrix.