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One feature that seems (to me) to be highly desirable, yet Discord and every other service like it (that I'm aware of) lacks: the ability for moderators to sele
by adamrezich 2y ago
One feature that seems (to me) to be highly desirable, yet Discord and every other service like it (that I'm aware of) lacks: the ability for moderators to select several messages in a given channel, and shunt them into a new thread, leaving a link to said thread in their place.
As I've never seen a service provide this ability, it could be that I'm mistaken, and that this wouldn't be as useful in practice as it seems in theory. But, theoretically, this would provide a nice middle ground between forums (and the pseudo-forum-channels Discord supports on Community Servers) and open, IRC-style general discussion. With this feature, users could casually discuss things as usual, but then move to a separate thread once a tangent becomes sufficiently lengthy/heated/etc.
- amiantos 2y agoWorse, I feel like Discord's threading feature feels incomplete without the ability to do this. It feels like it implies it can do this when you use the feature, that you'll be shoving associated replies into a thread, but it doesn't actually work that way and essentially fails at what I'd consider a basic requirement. It would make more sense if it worked like Slack, but even then, you can't shove existing messages into a thread for some reason. There must be some absurd technical reason such a feature is impossible, or UX designers decided it was too complicated to design for some reason. There is no "multi-select" for messages at all in Discord, even to batch delete...
- r0ks0n 2y agothey had something like that but never went through with it