#BetterDiscord - Animated playing status plugin
Rumor has it that a recent update throttles playing status updates to 5 per minute. Procede at your own risk.
This BetterDiscord plugin allows you to customize (and animate) your playing status in Discord.
##Step 1
- Download the Discord desktop client and its enhancement suite BetterDiscord
##Step 2
- Download the file animatedGame.plugin.js included with this gist. This is the plugin itself.
- Place it in
%appdata%\Roaming\BetterDiscord\Plugins
- %appdata% might be different between machines. The path above will likely be
C:\Users\<yourUsername>\AppData\BetterDiscord\Plugins
orC:\Users\<yourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\BetterDiscord\Plugins
- If you are on a mac, this is probably somewhere in
~Library/Preferences
,~Library/Application Support
, or~/Library/app support/pref
- While finding the folder, beware that there may be two
BetterDiscord
folders. This belongs in the one that already has thePlugins
folder
- %appdata% might be different between machines. The path above will likely be
##Step 3
- Restart Discord
- You need to do a hard shutdown of Discord. When you close the window, Discord may still be running in the background. Kill it
- If you cannot figure out how to do that, just restart your computer
##Step 4
- Enable the plugin
- In Discord... Settings > BetterDiscord > Plugins, the plugin "Animated Game" should be listed. Check the checkbox. Press the settings cogwheel next to the checkbox to set your custom game!
no plugins or better discord option in Settings..imma assume it doesnt work nomore