Discord

[miksat]

So, one of the biggest issues to anyone who uses Leopard/Snow Leopard is Discord. Personally I can't go without it since I started using it in 2015. How do you guys run discord on your machines (assuming you use Discord)?

Using the web app in Firefox ESR 45 is kinda slow on my early 2006 MBP and the site keeps having graphical glitches. I've also seen the MacintoshGarden IM server which supports Discord, but I can't log in due to it not having support for the 2FA.

Has anyone else tried using it?

 

[casperes1996]

You could try and see if the Windows version runs via Wine

 

[miksat]

You could try and see if the Windows version runs via Wine

That doesn't work.

 

[0248294]

You could try and see if the Windows version runs via Wine

Wine on PowerPC? That doesn't work, Wine is x86 only, just like Windows.

 

[casperes1996]

Wine on PowerPC? That doesn't work, Wine is x86 only, just like Windows.

For some reason I just assumed Wine had PPC and ARM support, but yeah, no, you're totally right

 

[amagichnich]

The author of The Official Macintosh Garden IM Gateway for Classic Macs claims to have the discord API implemented - maybe have a look at it, I am yet to try it

 

[miksat]

The author of The Official Macintosh Garden IM Gateway for Classic Macs claims to have the discord API implemented - maybe have a look at it, I am yet to try it

I've already tried it, but it doesn't have 2 factor authentication.

 

[MagicBoy]

Turn off 2FA then?

As you can't do without Discord...

 

[miksat]

Turn off 2FA then?

As you can't do without Discord...

Literally all of my IRL friends and internet friends use discord. I can't just not use it.

And I've tried another account of mine without 2FA on the macintoshgarden server and It doesn't seem to work still.

 

[coconutshrimp]

Literally all of my IRL friends and internet friends use discord. I can't just not use it.

And I've tried another account of mine without 2FA on the macintoshgarden server and It doesn't seem to work still.

Not a "true" solution but I use X11 forwarding from my linux server to my PPC mac. It works surprisingly well.

edit: uploaded a pic

 

[amagichnich]

Not a "true" solution but I use X11 forwarding from my linux server to my PPC mac. It works surprisingly well.

edit: uploaded a pic

Hell that's a lot of "cheating" in one place nice work though, I'm kinda jealous

 

[Appleuser201]

Not a "true" solution but I use X11 forwarding from my linux server to my PPC mac. It works surprisingly well.

edit: uploaded a pic

Seeing chrome... or chromium... on a PPC?!
how does X11 work?

 

[Amethyst1]

Seeing chrome... or chromium... on a PPC?!
how does X11 work?

Chrome is not running on PPC. It's running on an x86 Linux box and displayed on, as well as accepting keyboard and mouse input from, a PPC Mac running an X11 server. The way X11 works is you can run an application on one system but tell it to display on another as long as the other system is running an X11 server configured to accept incoming requests.

It's vaguely similar to, say, RDP or VNC.

 

[repairedCheese]

Have you tried Leopard Webkit? It's hardly perfect, doesn't seem to work with extensions, and does demand Leopard, but it sure seems to render Discord perfectly for me. Which is honestly all I really need.

 

[wicknix]

You could always build pidgin from macports (not sure if it'll build on leopard, but it built fine on my lion install), then compile the 3rd party discord plugin linked from their plugins page. I built the plugin for Ubuntu remix and it works well.

Cheers

 

[Imixmuan]

Chrome is not running on PPC. It's running on an x86 Linux box and displayed on, as well as accepting keyboard and mouse input from, a PPC Mac running an X11 server. The way X11 works is you can run an application on one system but tell it to display on another as long as the other system is running an X11 server configured to accept incoming requests.

It's vaguely similar to, say, RDP or VNC.

So all we really need is a headless Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi Nano or similar SBC, running DietPi and Chrome in kiosk mode, velcro'ed to the front of our Powerbooks like a Borg implant, forwarding over X11 to our PPC macs, and (al)most all of our browser problems are solved. I'm on it!

 

[Amethyst1]

So all we really need is a headless Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi Nano or similar SBC, running DietPi and Chrome in kiosk mode, velcro'ed to the front of our Powerbooks like a Borg implant, forwarding over X11 to our PPC macs, and (al)most all of our browser problems are solved. I'm on it!

Sounds like a plan

 

[wicknix]

It's a bit archaic, but it works for text chat. (pidgin w/discord plugin)

 

[Appleuser201]

It's a bit archaic, but it works for text chat. (pidgin w/discord plugin)

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DM's work too right? and pics and emojis?

And could this realistically work decently on a low end G3 as it seems to be mostly text based?

 

[wicknix]

Basic emoji's work, but not the 10,000 that the official discord app supports. It also shows links you can open in a browser vs inline photos like the official app. So like i said, kind of archaic, but for just text chatting it does the job. Pidgin doesn't use much for resources as it's basically a tricked out irc client with various protocol plugins, so it should be fine on a G3 with a slimmed up Linux install using a lightweight WM like jwm, icewm, openbox etc. I haven't tried building it on tiger or leopard, but as i said, pidgin built via macports on my Lion install fine, as did the 3rd party discord plugin, it may or may not build for 10.4/10.5 though.

Cheers

 

[z970]

Basic emoji's work, but not the 10,000 that the official discord app supports.

Is that a random number, or the actual amount?

 

[wicknix]

It could be both.

 

[Appleuser201]

It could be both.

DMs work too right? In addition to servers.

 

[wicknix]

Yep

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Is that a random number, or the actual amount?

The official emoji count is up to 3304, but consider 285 of them can have 6 different skin tones ("default"/yellow plus 5 specific "realistic" skin tones,) that brings the total up to 4729.

So not even halfway there!