ClassicConnect

[VCSMaster]

I gotta be honest, having now bothered to make a second account just to try out Discord Messenger, which is something I've been meaning to try for a while, this is fantastic.

Performance is absolutely stellar given the hardware it's on, it's been pretty stable, almost all the features I personally care about are present and accounted for.

This has increased the daily usefulness of this machine from a solid 2/10 easily all the way to a 6/10 for me. The extra utility is incredible. At this point, I'm now actively searching for a modern-ish browser and email client that will run on a P4 under Windows XP, and looking into youtube downloaders. Signs on youtube playback seem good at a glance. It has suddenly become a very real possibility that I relegate my Ryzen to the shadows simply for the occasional game or video editing and stay here on XP like I was doing until just a few years ago when Discord and YouTube both dropped support for old firefox.

The only thing I can wish for is a Classic Mac OS port. Maybe someday!

[dkay]

[nick99nack]

It honestly works great. There are some minor bugs with it, like it appears some offset or something is wrong when trying to pull screenshots from the clipboard, but for the most part it works really well.

I use it on my 9x and 2000 machines all the time. Maybe I'll try and dig into the screenshot issue soon...
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[idkwhatnametoputxd]

[quote="VCSMaster"]having now bothered to make a second account /quote]

You don't really have to make a second account for that sort of stuff, unless you're paranoid about getting your main account banned. I use Discord Messenger and other custom discord clients with my main account all the time and i'm still not banned. Though the risk of getting banned is still there, even if it's very low, so I understand why you made a secondary account.

With that being said, this program is absolutely amazing. I use it on my Windows 2000 and XP virtual machines, as well as on my shitbox Compaq Presario CQ56 (which is running Windows 7 btw) and it's so damn smooth.

The only issues I have with it is that videos, gifs, links and audio files don't embed, there's no voice chat functionality, there's very few themes and they all look very similar to each other, I can't react to messages, emoji support is rough and I can't change essential settings like my pfp, name and stuff like that, but other than that it's surprisingly usable. This has become a must-have for me.
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[europa]

You don't have to create a second account, but it's a good idea. Discord doesn't directly ban for custom clients, but a lot of custom clients tend to accidentally spam API calls when doing certain things, and that will activate Discord's anti-API abuse mechanisms.
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[parasquared]

that, and typically certain actions (like starting a new DM or joining a server) tends to set off anti-spam measures more often than not
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[campos]

honestly the fact it works so well in these old systems is amazing enough, hard to have any complaints

[VCSMaster]

Well, now that Discord is rapidly becoming a no-go, I'll have to seek out a Matrix client or something that supports old machines. Rats! It was a good couple months, at least.