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> surely people understand that those messages aren't private to begin with, right? For some reason, this is really hard for people to get. The discord company
by mid-kid 3y ago
> surely people understand that those messages aren't private to begin with, right?
For some reason, this is really hard for people to get. The discord company is super paranoid about scraper bots joining through public links, and people themselves are continuously in awe when someone digs up an old message about whatever, asking the mods to ban them for doxing.
I completely agree with the sentiment, however, and I think it should become more socially acceptable for some chats to be viewable online, like forums used to be back in the day. Even then, people would close certain subforums off from appearing for people without an account (e.g. in public searches). As it stands, however, people are not comfortable with this because nobody is doing it.
- yrro 3y agoIt would be wise to disclose that messages are archived publicly. But you also don't need to archive the identity of everyone in the chats, you can replace their usernames with generic identifiers in the public archive.
- mid-kid 3y agoWell, yeah. I wouldn't do it behind people's backs, but I'm pretty sure people would protest, and new people would miss the message no matter how big you make it in the introduction channel.