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While this is a pretty cool project it's also a great way to ruin free message history.

(Not really blaming OP, this was inevitable)

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I can remember when Gmail was first released, someone made an app that used Gmail as storage

I remember messing around with this.

I put multiple gmail accounts into a RAID array, just to see if I could.

I declined to use it though because I didn't trust it, and it was slow, but it did work.

I hope they do ruin free message history. The lack of an option to limit Discord's message history to something sane like one year is a travesty for privacy.

Discord would probably still keep message history but lock it behind a subscription like how Slack works.

Anything that prompts Discord to provide more options regarding message retention would be a step forward. Instant messages were never designed to be a permanent storage medium for information archival. I don't think anybody should need to worry whether a data breach will unearth something they said in a private chat fifteen years ago, just because their service provider didn't offer a practical way to automatically delete old messages.

Looking at the votes though, I suppose HN does get use out of Discord's unlimited message history. Personally I'd rather have more control over my data than that.

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