Homebrew [Release] Discord 3DS Client

[topax]

since 3DiSCord will get your account banned, will this one get your account banned?

 

[rvtr]

So far I haven't had any trouble, but thats just me.

 

[Gon Freecss]

Does it have Discord Rich Presence?

 

[rvtr]

A what?

 

[Buck_Lenski]

I just found out about this and am interested in helping out 3 years old but definitely has potential

 

[Sleepy Flower Girl]

There's been recently a lot of demand for this all of a sudden. I'll be honest and say that I haven't been working on this. I still make Discord related stuff but the 3DS client has been pretty challenging for me. I'm not used to writing software for really low spec systems. Discord server data can get pretty big with lots of data like nicknames, role colors, avatars pics, etc for every user. And Discord keeps growing with more and more users and features that will mean we will need more ram to store all that info. A rewrite might be needed to move this server data out of the 3DS's ram and into the SD card. A big shift to how the client works right now.

 

[Sleepy Flower Girl]

Just logging in can eat up all the 3DS's ram.

 

[Sleepy Flower Girl]

Does it have Discord Rich Presence?

I not sure if you mean having the client show other user's presence, or the client sending the presence of the game you are playing.

Discord does sent user presence data to all accounts that are online and is the biggest use of the client's network usage. The client gets the data, reads it, finds out it's presence data, and then throws it away. Storing it all when we are fighting for ram would be hard for now. They are planning on changing this on Discord's next version of their API, not sure if that'll be given to user account but bots will be able to tell Discord's servers to not send them rich presence data.

As for sending the rich presence, you'll need a thin client that can run in the background of games and send data based on what's happening in the game. which would be tricky to do with limited amounts of resources on the 3DS. I don't have anything knowledge on that stuff. Plus it'll need to be done on a per game basis. We might be able to just send the data when opening and closes but not sure how that'll work.

 

[Buck_Lenski]

I not sure if you mean having the client show other user's presence, or the client sending the presence of the game you are playing.

Discord does sent user presence data to all accounts that are online and is the biggest use of the client's network usage. The client gets the data, reads it, finds out it's presence data, and then throws it away. Storing it all when we are fighting for ram would be hard for now. They are planning on changing this on Discord's next version of their API, not sure if that'll be given to user account but bots will be able to tell Discord's servers to not send them rich presence data.

As for sending the rich presence, you'll need a thin client that can run in the background of games and send data based on what's happening in the game. which would be tricky to do with limited amounts of resources on the 3DS. I don't have anything knowledge on that stuff. Plus it'll need to be done on a per game basis. We might be able to just send the data when opening and closes but not sure how that'll work.

You should totally make a discord server dedicated to bringing this about people's attention on homebrew. I'd be down to get people involved. DDD

 

[PrincessLillie]

You should consider dropping development altogether. Discord is a terrible platform as-is, and unofficial clients are against the Discord ToS, so they come with a high ban risk. It's simply not a good idea to keep developing this. If you really want a chat client for the 3DS, write one for another platform entirely, such as Telegram, Matrix, or XMPP.

 

[Amiga-Tan]

hey, this is a good program, PSVita port version was getting people banned (i think) because it was sending way too many requests(?) to discord itself, so i'd say this is pretty safe to use. Haven't gotten banned yet, could use a lot more features.

 

[Buck_Lenski]

You should consider dropping development altogether. Discord is a terrible platform as-is, and unofficial clients are against the Discord ToS, so they come with a high ban risk. It's simply not a good idea to keep developing this. If you really want a chat client for the 3DS, write one for another platform entirely, such as Telegram, Matrix, or XMPP.

apparently a bot token is not against the tos and is completely okay.

 

[lone_wolf323]

apparently a bot token is not against the tos and is completely okay.

Ya but a discord client on the 3ds not made by discord is still fully against their ToS.

 

[PrincessLillie]

apparently a bot token is not against the tos and is completely okay.

Yes, because bot accounts are meant to be automated and interact with the API. This client is intended for user accounts, which are not meant to be automated or interact with the API. Discord sees the user account's use of the API as an automated account and may ban the user for it.

 

[Sleepy Flower Girl]

hey, this is a good program, PSVita port version was getting people banned (i think) because it was sending way too many requests(?) to discord itself, so i'd say this is pretty safe to use. Haven't gotten banned yet, could use a lot more features.

The main difference between this and that client was that we request as little as possible. Instead Discord sends us the data in real time like the official Discord client. However Discord generally doesn't resent stuff from the past unless requested. So data we get from Discord needs to be stored somewhere. The vita/3DS client on the other hand will request stuff at will and doesn't need to store as much info to operate as Discord can sent it when needed. This puts the load on Discord servers which when done by many users can quickly add up and so bans are given.

This client needs a similar system but instead of asking Discord we ask the SD card. Well kind of but I think you get the gist.

 

[Amiga-Tan]

Ya but a discord client on the 3ds not made by discord is still fully against their ToS.

When is it not? especially when they can't shove nitro in our faces at least once a week, lol

 

[lone_wolf323]

When is it not? especially when they can't shove nitro in our faces at least once a week, lol

Unless discord makes a 3ds app. which at this point id say never. Then, its NEVER going to be ok to ever use the unofficial ones, They are against discords TOS. Period.

 

[Amiga-Tan]

anyways sometimes some of my servers just. break the thing, like i try to navigate to the first one and BAM it's dead, luckily i still have acess to rosalina so i can just reboot that way.

 

[rvtr]

anyways sometimes some of my servers just. break the thing, like i try to navigate to the first one and BAM it's dead, luckily i still have acess to rosalina so i can just reboot that way.

I find servers with Carl bot break the app. Maybe that is just me.

 

[VMHoss]

This is damn cool