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I enjoy the higher streaming quality and server boosts. Discord makes it very easy for my ttrpg groups to gather weekly not to mention the many other communities it facilitates. It's even partly responsible for me and my partner having a successful long distance relationship. The service is worth paying for, imho.
You can fake a Nitro subscription for free higher quality streaming. Look up ~~Vendord~~, it hardens Discord for better security, adds themes, and plugins. One such plugin is fake Nitro.
Edit: Vencord. Got autocorrected.
Also adding I have only used fake Nitro for streaming quality. So I have no idea if it works for emojis or whatever other Nitro perks there are.
Wait, so for this to work access to the Nitro features it enables must be managed client-side and the client is fully trusted with no validation? That seems... unwise on the part of Discord.
New here? The company and people behind Discord suck shit and like all tech startups things like security are an afterthought for years on end.
Adblockers had existed for 15 years or more by the time YouTube finally started cracking down on them. I think it would probably take similarly as long before enough people were actually exploiting that loophole before Discord did anything about it.
And I STILL manage to beat them by, literally not even knowing about the crackdown in the first place and just telling Ublock Origin to do its thing
No, the commenter ommited a lot of information, it's not full Nitro, it's just the features that can be enabled/worked around client-side, see my comment under the parent one.
I did say "the features it enables", not every Nitro feature.
I don't fully understand how Discord works, but apparently certain Nitro perks are just client side toggles. I only use it for streaming 1080@60fps, so I'm not sure about things like emojis, and after that I don't even know what other Nitro perks exist.
The downside is it's against their ToS, and you could have your account banned or similar if they do decide to take action.
Oh no, not my free account.
Thanks for the heads up, though!
Eh I mean there are lots of connections I've made with people only on discord that would suck to lose.
Apparently it's very easy to make a new account
Just wanted to correct that is Vencord, with a C. I couldn’t find it the other way and when I added “discord” as an additional parameter I noticed the spelling was off.
Sorry autocorrect!
All good! Just wanted to make sure people could find it
I literally ended my comment with saying the service was worth the price, and you pitch a way to pirate it to me. Wild.
It's your opinion that the service is worth the price; I know nobody who shares that opinion. Sharing an alternative shouldn't be seen as hostile or "wild". If it was like a buck a month, I'd pay that. But at checks notes $3/month for increased upload size (I have a nas with public file sharing, so..) and.. emoji? or $10/month for the above + "super reactions" (wat), not-ass streaming res, "server boosts" (???) and "custom profiles" (what does that even mean? a background?)... You're kidding me, right? I pay less for my web hosting, or my vps, my security/AV software... Even Bitwarden, or NextDNS, is pennies compared to nitro. Ten bucks a month is actually insane from my perspective. $120 a year for bigger uploads and decent streaming resolution is highway robbery.
To use your term: wild.
Yes, I said it was my opinion.
Well, this "pirate" option also fixed issues that plagued the Linux desktop client for years. Discord only got screen share working about a month ago, that feature has been around since 2017 (I think). Meanwhile the "pirate" option had fixed that (even on wayland) while people were waiting for the basic features to function.
Yep, people have had to use alternative Discord clients on Linux for quite some time.
For anyone curious: Vesktop, ripcord, webcord, and armcord are the ones I tried at some point.
Doesn't Linux Discord still not have audio streaming unless you use Vesktop?
No, that's what was fixed a month ago. It does still have its bugs though, I found that if the audio doesn't show I have to close the app and reopen it before it will work, but that happened from time to time with the workarounds as well so I'm thinking maybe it's just an issue on the Linux side
To be clear, a pirated copy of something may well be improved over the original but that doesn't make it not a pirated copy, so you can lose the quotes. It sounds like Discord is not in a good place on Linux and I'm sure I'd agree it's not worth the cost of the sub if I were on Linux.
Hah, I just like spreading the good word of piracy. Especially Discord since their app is a piece of shit.
To clarify about the fake nitro plugin of Vencord/Vesktop:
It's not Nitro, it just enables some features you get with nitro, mainly better streaming quality and being able to "send" emojis from any server (this is all it does, cant use any emoji reacts nor send bigger files or server boost).
Also
About the emojis, the custom/other server emojis are sent as image links which discord will render but it is not a native discord emoji and will format differently when used inline.
It also does nothing for custom emoji reacts.
About streaming, Discord uses webrtc, that usually means P2P streaming which in turn means that the streaming client can send whatever they want (as long as the receiving clients understand it) and discord servers can't say no. It's not server authoritative communication, discord without nitro just hides the UI options, vencord gives them back.
I still have no idea what boosting a server does.
If a server gets enough boosts they can add largely useless extra stuff like more custom stickers and emojis. There's a few legit benefits like higher quality audio / video and being able to create a custom server invite link but it's mostly fluff.
Gotcha. Thanks!
The only reason I would pay is for the higher quality streaming, but I think the price is too steep for that, if they had a cheaper plan with just the streaming perk, then I would really consider subscribing.