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The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2019-08-11 · latest 2025-08-24

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  1. There have been cases and a whole project was shut down because of it https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless?tab=readme-ov-file#i... However this is an entirely different question. Whether or not an API is copyrightable, and whether you'd…
    comment by a2128 · 2025-08-24 · in LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine
  2. There’s a lot of instances, for example the developer of one of the alternative clients https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
    comment by nrabulinski · 2023-08-22 · in Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free
  3. …it? Yes, I have two options: 1) use https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ until it suffers the same fate as https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless 2) throw the whole thing to the wind until I have better hardware Hmm. You know come to think about it…
    comment by exikyut · 2021-09-14 · in Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
  4. …try to actively prevent people from writing alternate clients against their API. Yes, they do. https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless : > Hey, so I know this is somewhat of a bummer, but I got banned because of ToS violation today. This…
    comment by ibraheemdev · 2021-08-24 · in How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
  5. …official laser beams for the alternative client scene, such that Cordless recently called it quits: https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless Ripcord ( https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ ) doesn't seem to be giving any indications that it no longer…
    comment by exikyut · 2021-01-23 · in Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
  6. …banned for using a third-party client? That's why the Cordless developer shut down the project: https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
    comment by jakelazaroff · 2021-01-20 · in Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
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    I am closing down the Cordless project
    story by sim_card_map · 2021-01-08 · 40 comments
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    Cordless Project Closed Down
    story by Bella-Xiang · 2020-11-27 · 0 comments
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    Cordless Project Closes Down
    story by brownbat · 2020-11-23 · 54 comments
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    Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go
    story by guessmyname · 2019-08-11 · 62 comments