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README: add mention of Cordless dev's acc being blocked for ToS thing
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mk-fg committed May 17, 2021
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.. image:: discord-tos-violation-warning.jpg

Cordless_ client developer's acc apparently got blocked for ToS violation when
initiating private chats.

They didn't block my account yet though, so guess these rules aren't well-enforced.

You have been warned :)
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Local Name Aliases
``````````````````

Can be defined in the config file to replace hash-based discord prefixes or
server channel names with something more readable/memorable or meaningful
to you::
Can be defined in the config file to replace hash-based discord prefixes or server
channel names with something more readable/memorable or meaningful to you::

[aliases]
guild.jvpp = game-X
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- Rename channel with id=710035588048224269 to "memes" (with guild prefix too).

That long discord channel id (also called "snowflake") can be found by typing
"/t info" topic-command in the channel, and can be used to refer to one
specific channel, e.g. #general on this one server instead of everywhere.
"/t info" topic-command in irc channel from discord, and can be used to refer
to that specific channel, e.g. this #general on this server instead of everywhere.

Currently aliases are implemented for guild IDs and channel names,
like demonstrated above.
Currently aliases are implemented for guild IDs and chan names, like demonstrated above.

#rdircd.monitor channels
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Terminal UI (TUI, ncurses) clients:

- Cordless_ - fairly mature Go TUI client
- Cordless_ - fairly mature Go TUI client, abandoned after discord blocking dev's acc
- 6cord_ - Go client, seem to be deprecated atm in favor of gtkcord_
- Terminal-Discord_ - minimal JS/node terminal client
- `Discord Terminal`_ - customizable JS/node client with IRC layout and Windows OS support
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helper script in this repo can be used to decompress/decode websocket messages saved
from chromium-engine browser devtools (pass -h/--help option for info on how to do it).

.. _can use zlib compression: https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#encoding-and-compression
.. _can use zlib compression: https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#encoding-and-compression

- Adding support for initiating private chats might be a bad idea, as Cordless_
dev apparently got banned for that, as these seem to be main spam vector,
so more monitoring and anomaly detection is likely done there, leading to
higher risk for users.

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