Official plugin support and third party client

[Bricklou]

Since the Discord community become a lot bigger recently. I really think that Discord need some ability to:

• first: having an official plugin and theme support (a lot of security will need to be done to prevent security issues (i.e.: CSP, API restriction for plugins, etc...))
• second: Allow third party clients. It still needs a lot of change in the API on the server to prevent unexpected case and abuse, but it would be very nice for the community since it will allow client in CLI, with GTK, Qt etc...

Currently, client modding (with Betterdiscord and Powercord) is really nice but we in an edge case where we can be banned if some plugins provide "bad" features that breaks ToS more that just enhance user experience.
About third party client, they are currently understood as self boting for discord server. Lot of user don't like the fact that Discord use electron (which is pretty heavy with CPU and memory) and would like to be able to use native client or just compatible client (arm processors are not compatible with the current version of discord client)

I know this subject is pretty sensitive because of the discord ToS, but it really needs to be addressed.

[devsnek]

This forum is for API related topics. I'd suggest leaving this feedback on https://feedback.discord.com

[Bricklou]

Oh, ok!
I wasn't sure since I didn't see any indication on what part of the discord API this forum cover exactly.