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How Discord stores billions of messages. - Invictum - Jan 19, 2017
https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7#.y47p6bb2u
I'm not a programmer myself but was still a pretty interesting read!
* - Punisher - Jan 19, 2017
Quote:In a follow-up to this post we will explore how we make billions of messages searchable.
In other words, don't use discord, use XMPP instead.
* - Annabelle Lee - Jan 19, 2017
(Jan 19, 2017 06:16 PM)Error Wrote: In other words, don't use discord, use XMPP instead.Can you please explain how you came to that? I use discord extensively and it's very good at what it does. I admit that the search feature could be improved a lot though.
* - Exemplification - Jan 19, 2017
(Jan 19, 2017 07:06 PM)AnnabelleLee Wrote: Can you please explain how you came to that? I use discord extensively and it's very good at what it does. I admit that the search feature could be improved a lot though.
XMPP doesn't archive messages normally.
Discord does.
Preference depends on your level of paranoia.
* - clrlslwi - Jan 19, 2017
(Jan 19, 2017 07:06 PM)AnnabelleLee Wrote: Can you please explain how you came to that? I use discord extensively and it's very good at what it does. I admit that the search feature could be improved a lot though.
He's under the assumption that everyone on this website is a l33t hacker who needs to hide financial fraud activities (making the in depth history a bad thing.)