Game Activity

[8itCat]

I know that this is essentially Discord Web, but is there a way to enable Game Activity?

[SpacingBat3]

As it's not the bug report (but rather a question), please ask me that in the Discussions next time.

There's a reason why I enabled Discussions and why I moved some issues into Discussions.

Issue tracker is for issues only, either bug reports (for existing features) or feature requests.

[SpacingBat3]

Also there're many ways to enable it, but there're reasons why I never implement this, at least as one of application features:

• it requires to use Discord API, which is considered as unsafe to use with users accounts (it was meant for the bot purpose only),
• activity is useless on ARM devices (simply, there's no much native games for these platforms),
• activity is rather not privacy-friendly feature,
• WebCord is about communicating with each other, not being a gaming platform nor having game integrations.

[8itCat]

how can I enable it???

[SpacingBat3]

how can I enable it???

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@AvaQueen-Official, read my comment again:

(...) there're reasons why I never implement this (...)

It's not even implemented in code, you need to either fork my project (harder to maintain) or create WebCord addon (easier to maintain, because you don't have to patch the code from the upstream). I said in my previous comment:

(...) there're many ways to enable it (...)

...because it is quite easy to create an extension, there's many NodeJS extensions dedicated for tweaking the Discord Rich Presence, here's an example module, which could be used with WebCord's NodeJS-based addon format.

In the future, I will fix the Chromium-based addons [feature] to make them [it] work, currently they're useless because of wrongly used API (I need to unpack extension first before loading them with Electron, which is not the case as WebCord tries to load packed extension directly with Electron API).

[8itCat]

ok, thank you for the reply 👍🏻

[SpacingBat3]

Actually I recently got an idea to recreate RPC without using Discord servers at all – this would allow the users for a greater control over RPC and e.g. limiting its visibility to the closed list of the users. Please note that this way would make WebCord's RPC incompatible with the Discord ones and then only WebCord users would see your RPC.

Even if I would decide to implement this as the future, this is rather a lower-priority task – I will rather focus for now on other features like extensions support (which could be also an unofficial way for getting Discord RPC working on WebCord).

[8itCat]

so how could we implement that?

[SpookySkeletons]

You could write an IPC named pipe that accepts input from any app willing to write into that file somewhere in /tmp or use win32 named pipe API.

Then create or utilize any prexisting little third party app/ script that can work with your DE to grab the foreground fullscreen app, filter the application name into something cleaner, or identify music playing and open that pipe to write in your current activity IPC file.

Personal preference: Make the named pipe a quick toggle in the user icon menu and change the window title to reflect with a DE toast on changes.

[SpacingBat3]

Update: There's Fosscord project that allows us to use their API for custom clients without worrying about any consequences! In the ideal enviroment, WebCord will use an internal page and save captured data locally, meaning a lot of stuff would improve – offline messaging, multi-instance integration and more!

It is however too complex to work on it for now – there's still a lot to improve in WebCord and once I deal with smaller things and finish some features that were partially done, I might eventually work on this, no due date right now as I don't expect it will come too soon.

[NLZ]

Game Invites would also be closely related to this feature?