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Discord itself is fine, but it needs something to write it's logs to a public html page per channel every x hours. Cannot be that hard and everyone benefits. Ev
by tluyben2 5y ago
Discord itself is fine, but it needs something to write it's logs to a public html page per channel every x hours. Cannot be that hard and everyone benefits. Every chat for open source should do that as so much valuable stuff is discussed per day that no-one will write down elsewhere.... I mean that's the only thing; all (open source) projects I knew on IRC had an archive in .html which was indexed. Handy to find issues years later.
- pas 5y agoBut that IRC archive was written by a bot, not the server(s). Adding a bot to Discord is just as easy.
- tluyben2 5y agoSeems not so easy as the oss project owners I asked to do that had no idea how. That would make life better indeed.
- Coding_Cat 5y agoUnless they changed it, small scale bots (10 servers or less, large bots need approval) can see every message event in every channel they have access to using the websocket API. They can also query older messages. It's pretty straightforward once you know how to use the API. From there it's no longer a Discord problem, as you just need to export that data somewhere. There's bots which already partialy do this. There's bots that log edits & deletes for moderators to review and bots like TicketTool (https://tickettool.xyz/ https://tickettool.xyz/) let you create special one-off channels (tickets) that you can export to html on closure too.
- pas 5y agoThey have to invite the chosen bot, for example this one https://top.gg/bot/884415978459512862 https://top.gg/bot/884415978459512862 (I don't use it, haven't tried it.)
- password4321 5y agohttps://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter Always scared to earn a ToS ban using something like this though.