Vencord
Vencord is a client mod created by Vendicated.
| Vencord | |
|---|---|
 Vencord logo | |
| Active | August 2022 - present |
| Platform(s) | Desktop, Web, Mobile |
| Lead developer(s) | Vendicated |
| Repository | Vendicated/Vencord |
| License(s) | GPL-3.0 |
| Language(s) | TypeScript |
History
August 14th 2021, Powercord brought up the idea of sandboxing plugins. This sparked a discussion in the Aliucord discord server, where Vendicated (who back then used "Ven" as their name) was very vocal about this change, citing concerns that this would be easily be bypassable (due to the open nature of javascript) and only cripple plugins.
This led to User:zt64 jokingly saying "Vencord when", in reference to Vendicated's name.
From this point onwards, people were regularely joking about "Vencord".
Fast forward one year to August 2022. Powercord was essentially dead, and many users, including Vendicated, were very dissatisfied with all existing mods. Thus, out of boredom, Vendicated decided to turn the meme into a reality.
At the start, Vendicated had no idea what they were doing, or how Electron works. But with the help of Strencher and a few other friends, they quickly caught on and rewrote it completely from scratch with much cleaner code.
A few weeks after, the Discord SWC Change happened and completely changed the way Discord's code work. This broke all client mods. The Powercord, Goosemod, and Cumcord mods all announced their discontinuation. The only remaining mod was BetterDiscord. However, BetterDiscord took months to recover. Much unlike Vencord, which was rapidly developed thanks to dozens of hours of time investment by Vendicated and a few friends, most notably Megumin. Thus, Vencord saw massive adoption, mostly by users of the aforementioned discontinued mods, because it was literally the only properly working Mod.
Approximately 8 months later, Vencord had amassed 1000 stars on GitHub.
Eventually, No Text To Speech grew very fond of Vencord. He made a few showcases of Vencord, most notably about its FakeNitro plugin. His Vencord video "Making Discord Better (by breaking some rules)"[1] uploaded July 26th 2023 is now his most popular video with 3 million views.
This sparked a rapid growth of vencord from 2000 to 5000 stars in only 3 months. On October 26th 2023, Vencord became the #1 trending repository on GitHub for approximately 12 hours.[2]