WebCord is an “alternative client” for Discord, although it’s just running the Discord webpage in electron. Recently it updated its electron version so it supports sharing audio as well as video.

I tried it out today on mint (x11, pulseaudio) and it works flawlessly.

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    9 months ago

    I still have major problems with presence detection and notifications (in Webcord. Love it on Deck tho.) Could be me. Vencord is a project I just stumbled on and it seems really solid in just about every area. Check out those plugins.

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      9 months ago

      And Vencord has a desktop client “Vesktop” which works like Webcord, with audio in stream too. No presence detection but notifications have worked for me

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      9 months ago

      I would caution anyone using a client mod like that, since it is technically against Discord’s terms of service. To be fair I’ve never heard of them banning anyone for that, but it’s worth noting. Webcord is generally a much safer option.

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        You’re technically right but discord really doesn’t care as long as you’re not doing anything harmful with the client mods. Big YouTubers like No Text To Speech publicly promote and use Vencord and never get banned, I think his server is even a discord partner.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah it’s fine right now, but these companies are prone to changing their minds. I think it’s a good option but also wouldn’t put it past discord to suddenly decide to crack down one day.

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      9 months ago

      So you can share audio while sharing your screen just like on Windows. Before the only way was to route it through your mic which is annoying and has a ton of drawbacks.

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    Nicee. Although, I’ve been having trouble running webcord. I get some decryptkey message error. It might have to do with my keys in my kde wallet. I have absolutely no idea how to fix it.