Video chat - Hebgbs/DiscordStuff GitHub Wiki
Enabling video chat
Remember that huge-ass update you all received?
Yeah, that was the video chat update, but it was only enabled under one of three circumstances;
- Give $5 mo. / $50 yr. for Discord Nitro
- Be the ultra-elite shills selected for Discord HypeSquad
- Be the randomly-selected 5% who were blessed by RNGesus
However there is a fourth way, and that is to... just enable it. But you need to access Discord Experiments first, which is what the two sections below will help you do. It would also help if you disabled hiding of known file extensions in Explorer; Google that.
The easy hack-free way
- Get BetterDiscord from http://betterdiscord.net
- You will need to extract the archive for installation on Windows
- For all else, there are unofficial installers for Mac OS X and Linux; do some googling!
- Access the pages below;
- for each, right-click on Raw and save to
%appdata%\BetterDiscord\plugins
or your system's equivalent - Save as
.plugin.js
, not asplugin.js.txt
- for each, right-click on Raw and save to
- Restart Discord
- When BetterDiscord is finished loading, scroll to the BetterDiscord category heading and select Plugins
- Enable the Discord Experiments plugin
- Discord Internals doesn't need to be enabled.
- Proceed to last section
The slightly more difficult, more hackish way (Once per restart)
- Press
Ctrl
+Shift
+I
- Click the Sources tab
- Expand
assets
underdiscordapp.com
- Scroll to and select
https://discordapp.com/assets/ab42e5405fbbf65c60f5.js
- Click on the braces at the bottom left to pretty-print it.
- Scroll to line 72865 and click on the line number to set a breakpoint there
- Go to a different server to engage the breakpoint (Discord will be frozen)
- Select the Console tab, and submit this command;
S=1
- Should output
1
if done correctly
- Should output
- Either close element inspector or disengage the breakpoint
- Proceed to last section
(Finally) Enabling video chat
- Open user settings, select Experiments
- Scroll to Video Calling, select User, and Treatment 1
- Restart Discord
If successful, a new change log will appear congratulating you for being selected to participate in the video chatting beta. Enjoy.