steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord : linux

[+] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I strongly disagree. Multiple times I've been playing a game and a friend saw my Discord status and chatted with me about it. It's just another way for my friends to see my interests, nothing new on the internet.

Would I want this status to be displayed somewhere else (especially a more FOSSy place)? Hell yeah. But there isn't any, and the people that rarely talk to me and are into gaming, aren't, unfortunately, on anywhere else but Discord.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For many people, socialization is a core part of gaming, and Discord is far and away the most common platform for that socialization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Steam has chat

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

It's not a matter of what people can use, but what people do use. Like it or not, Discord is the de facto standard, and it's a lot easier to install workarounds that make Discord usable on Linux than it is to convince all your friends to switch platforms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Valve and Glorious Eggroll are going to be pissed when they find out how little Microsoft and Windows game developers care about them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Strongly recommend it. It even automatically fetches icons for the games via SteamGridDB (Even if they could totally just fetch it from Steam). Ain't really a fix for games using Proton, however, or making sandboxed Discord versions to get those local RPC implementation, just an alternative and more efficient way to show what you play on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ain't really a fix for games using Proton

Wdym? It works fine for Proton games as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It doesn't make use of the games original Discord RPC integrations, and their more-in-depth game details that it can bring. See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Enabling-Discord-Rich-Presence or https://github.com/EnderIce2/rpc-bridge for ways to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Looks neat!

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