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Once upon a time, ripcord was my favorite to use, unfortunately its been dead and dormant for over 2 years now. Id love to know if anybody knows any similar client (for example: be it in having custom design, or being super lightweight)

(yes, i know, you dont have to say i should use matrix or something else)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out Armcord. It's a 3rd party client with many customization choices (mainly due to the fact that it bundles Vencord and Shelter client mods).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

If this is "completely open source" and "doesn't rely on the original Discord client in any way" (from their front page) how can mods for the official client be compatible?

Oh wait, their faq clarifies things: it's an electron wrapper for the official web client, not a completely open source client that doesn't rely on the official one as they claim.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ArchWiki has a list: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Discord#Third-party_clients

Ripcord is really unique and it's still my favorite third party client. Abaddon might be worth trying. Unfortunately, most other third party clients are wrappers.

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

How the hell does arch wiki have so much stuff? It’s nuts!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Someone somewhere had a problem, wanted it solved, and wrote it down, probably.

Get enough stubborn "someone"s with their own problems to solve, and I guess eventually you'll end up with the Arch wiki lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ripcord has been pretty great, but it hasn't been updated in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, i wonder why they stopped

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

here we go, looks interesting, ill try it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

tried out abaddon but it tells me it couldnt fetch the build number which increases chances of being flagged their github has one related issue with no solution

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using Webcord with substantial improvements from the native Discord app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

isnt webcord just a wrapper for the, well, web version?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah think so but with extra privacy hardening features and especially useful Screensharing on Wayland! I don't know if there is an alternative to it for Screensharing on wayland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well it works better than the native and I can't share screen on discord on the browser so it works for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The flatpak crashes for me since some time sadly. I'm just using a basic chromium browser and their (shitty) webapp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The appimage seems solid for me thus far, installed through this handy tool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use Discordo for work. It's pure CLI/TUI and it doesn't have all the features of Discord but I think that's the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Vencord is nice, not a 3rd party though

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

I tried vesktop two days ago, after using discord-screenaudio for over a year, and I'm in love with it. Check it out guys, it's really good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Most of the "third party clients" being suggested here are wrappers for the official client. I use purple-discord. If you don't care about voice/video this works well enough.