Clients

This assumes your Fosscord instance has the Test Client enabled, and erlpack installed.

Set the DISCORD_WEBAPP_ENDPOINT environment variable on the machine running the client to the Fosscord web app URL, for example https://staging.fosscord.com.

On Windows:

1. Open the start menu and search for "Environment variables"
2. Click "Environment Variables" at the bottom of this new window, titled "System Properties"
3. Add a new user variable
4. Set the name to DISCORD_WEBAPP_ENDPOINT, and the value to your instance URL.

On Linux, you can:

• run DISCORD_WEBAPP_ENDPOINT=instance url discord on the CLI
• edit the discord.desktop file to include the above
• add EXPORT DISCORD_WEBAPP_ENDPOINT=url to your bash/zsh/etc profile (~/.bashrc for example)
• and probably lots more

This assumes your Fosscord instance has the Test Client enabled, and erlpack installed.

You may edit your desktop client's settings.json file at %appdata%/discord/settings.json on Windows and typically ~/.config/discord/settings.json on Linux, adding the following line

"WEBAPP_ENDPOINT" : "https://your_fosscord_instance_url"

such that it looks like this, as an example

{
    "IS_MAXIMIZED": true,
    "IS_MINIMIZED": false,
    "WINDOW_BOUNDS": {
        "x": 335,
        "y": 86,
        "width": 940,
        "height": 600
    },
    "BACKGROUND_COLOR": "#202225",
    "WEBAPP_ENDPOINT": "https://your_fosscord_instance_url"
}

This assumes your Fosscord instance has the Test Client enabled.

Webcord does not currently allow specifcying custom instance URLs. The available instances with Webcord are https://app.freecord.ir and staging.fosscord.com.

1. Download and install Webcord
2. In the top bar, "File" -> "Settings"
3. Scroll down to "Discord Instance" and select a Fosscord instance you would like to use

If an instance does not have the test client enabled, you can host the proxy yourself, and simply set it to use your desired Fosscord instance.