this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Make sure you use an open source tool to download any important conversation or channel history.

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

You'll have to use the browser version of Discord to grab your unique Token since they've disabled the inspector console on the application and also removed the ability to turn it back on in the ini file. Don't ever share it with anybody, either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How come we need to dl the history? Are they deleting old messages with this update?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

If you delete your account then you won't have access to your chat history. Because the account will be gone. The account tied to all of the messages. And with which you accessed servers. Because you can't log in to it. Because it's gone. Because you deleted it.