Powercord

Powercord was a client mod created by aetheryx. It was declared end of life in 2019, and a maintained version was forked to later become Replugged.

Powercord
Powercord Logo
Active	November 2018 - July 2022
Platform(s)	Desktop
Lead developer(s)	aetheryx
Repository	powercord-org/Powercord
License(s)	MIT
Language(s)	Node.js

History

aetheryx created the first commit on April 11, 2018. It was intended to be a personal client mod and was hosted at aetheryx/aethcord. The v1 branch was discontinued on January 5, 2019. The v2 branch became the main branch until Powercord was declared end of life in 2022. Powercord v3 was announced but did not come to fruition.

Initial Previews

The first screenshot of what would later become Powercord.

On November 25, 2018 aetheryx posted an initial screenshot of a Spotify integration for Discord in the DTinker client modding community's #showcase channel. This was the very first version of what is now implemented in modern plugins Such as Vencord's SpotifyControls or DevilBro's BetterDiscord plugin by the same name. This garnered interest from several users and over the course of the next few days, aetheryx shared more information, including a link to the GitHub repository, which was at that time aetheryx/aethcord. aetheryx expressed views early-on about how he wasn't a fan of the initial name, stating "[...] things are in extremely early stages right now and i need to think of a better name than aethcord" and "it just feels a little too dorky/awkward tbh. like i literally just merged my username with discord".

Development of aethcord continued in aetheryx's own personal Discord guild.