And if you are ever hacked all this chat database can be sucked up for free due to lack of encryption?
I must be wrong seriously what did I miss this can't be?
I don't think anyone's commented on the backend security situation (I'd hope they'd have messages encrypted at rest, but it doesn't seem that encryption has been a priority), just that they don't do E2E.
Thus what are those billions of messages they store in the database? Is it only a very detailed cache data for current conversation or is it hardwired to PRISM or a commercial database? Why on earth should they store so much chat log?
Or maybe i'm not just not award of the popularity of discord, but Billions of messages volumes make me wonder because as a comparison it's roughly iMessage worldwide per day payload.
So messages are probably stored longer than needed : how and why?
You are basically confirming that your company is storing a lot of personal data without user specific encryption. This is pretty scary and I hope you have some improvement about this situation on your roadmap. If not your are a "leak" away from a big problem.
Cool features are neats, but in 2016 privacy should not be seen as a secondary feature...