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How Discord stores billions of messages.

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-....y47p6bb2u

I'm not a programmer myself but was still a pretty interesting read!
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.
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(Jan 19, 2017 06:16 PM)Punisher 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.
(Jan 19, 2017 07:06 PM)Annabelle Lee 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.

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(Jan 19, 2017 07:06 PM)Annabelle Lee 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.)


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