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Discord isn't ephemeral like IRC, that's a big part of why people like it. Why would they auto-delete old messages?

• number6 4y ago
  Why should they keep so much data that just raises their storage bills?
  • eropple 4y ago
    Text is very cheap. Images, a little less so. Video--I would expect them to eventually evict this.
  • smileybarry 4y ago
    Because it's great to be able to find that one link someone mentioned, or the thing talked about a year ago, etc. Same reason one might keep their texting history for as long as possible.
    • mmis1000 4y ago
      They even specifically make a powerful search function to make looking up things easy. You can make a combine query of something like `post by me` `contains image` `in certain channel` `before 2020/03` `contains certain text`. And it will filter out any matching result for you. It's currently the most useful search function i ever seen in IMs
  • deleted 4y ago
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