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Discord
Discord is an social platform that combines voice and video conferences as well as instant messaging chats. Additionally to the default website Discord also features a desktop client in the form of an Electron-based app.
Alternatives
There are some alernative frontends and modifications available for Discord.
- BetterDiscord is a modification for Discord on Linux-based systems, which changes an existing installation of Discord. It supports a wide range of plugins and themes.
- Vencord is a standalone custom Discord App. It supports a wide range of plugins and themes.
- Revenge is a standalone client modification of Discord for Android. It supports a wide range of plugins and themes.
Usage
This section addresses various features of Discord.
Disable Automatic Update Checks
By default, Discord performs an automatic check to see if it is up to date.
On Linux-based systems it can be disabled by adding "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true to
the ~/.config/discord/settings.json file.
Setting Up a Music Bot
For Discord there are various bots capable of playing music. The following is a list of bots featured in this wiki that can do this.
- Sinusbot is a self-hosted bot for Discord that can play music and sounds. It's closed-source and free of charge. It also features TeamSpeak support.
Themes and Plugins
By default Discord has no option to use themes or plugins. To use themes or plugins alternative frontends or client modifications have to be used.
Troubleshooting
This section will focus on errors and the fixing of errors of Discord.
Streaming Audio not Possible
Using the default client when sharing the screen the audio might not be streamed aswell. this section is based on a Reddit comment by Malo1301. This can happen with both Wayland and X11. The simplest way to fix is to use Vesktop.