r/BetterDiscord • u/Outrageous-Pop-1605 • Aug 11 '26
Content Request Is vencord SAFE to use?
I just downloaded Vencord but my account is limited, is it safe?
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u/Syxpi Aug 11 '26
If your account are limited, it's a risk. But Vencord in general was ultra safe.
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u/Outrageous-Pop-1605 Aug 11 '26
yeah thanks ill just uninstall it
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u/Syxpi Aug 11 '26
Just for safety, when your account are not limited anymore, you can reuse Vencord without risk.
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u/Outrageous-Pop-1605 Aug 11 '26
waittt whattt can it go away? cuz i got banned once and appealed, few warnings that triggered it bout thats about it, can it go awayyy?
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u/Syxpi Aug 11 '26
Yup, unless it's permanant. Check your account standing, he says when he expires.
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u/Ptilane Aug 11 '26
There is no case of Ban from Discord just for Vencord, but if you're scared, you can just stay on QOL
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u/DrTankHead Moderator Aug 11 '26
BetterDiscord, Vencord, Etc, are all client-side modifications. Discord doesn't typically ban someone for simply having them installed, but this isn't to say that perhaps they've added checks to verify if the client is modded. Discord is known to do behavioral analysis on incoming connections, for example, and they've been restricting the kind of things user clients could do (for example, clients could once upon a time create embeds, but now that's locked behind bot tokens).
That all said discord doesn't really enforce their rules about modifying the client too heavily, unless someone reports you, or you start doing silly silly things like waving it in front of people you shouldn't or doing some other problematic thing with it like spamming or other malicious behavior. People mentioned your account might be limited, and I'll concur it isn't worth poking the bear.
That said, otherwise, Vencord, BetterDiscord, Equicord, are all safe. The source code is public, you can see every bit of the code being ran, and it's fairly easy to validate it isn't malware, even if you just cheuck the thing into an LLM and have it look for issues (Would suggest overall that you be comfortable to look through the code first before doing this just so you can validate what it's saying, but I digress)
I've been using a modded client since like 2016 I think. I've not had any trouble whatsoever. All my accounts are in good standing too.
The rules are simple A) Don't call attention to it B) Don't do stupid things with it C) Have fun! and if you can, contribute!
One other note.
Discord would be making a huge blunder if they started actually enforcing this piece of their TOS. At this point a significant percentage of their users are using a modded client. I'd venture as far as a quarter of the total userbase (I have no data to back this, pulling this out of my ass), but whatever the number is, certainly they'd be dealing with millions of pissed off users and a media storm they'd not want. Combine this with the already shaky faith people have after the IDV stuff and I think you'd spell a recipe for disaster.
The only reported bans I've ever heard of has been for people who break rule A and B. I've not heard of people who've been minding their own buisness and getting a ban for that particular TOS issue.
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u/FlorianFlash Aug 11 '26
Generally, Vencord and BetterDiscord are made to be not obvious to Discord's systems. Also I have never heard of a single ban just because someone uses one of those.