#privacy #discord
I recently tried deleting some messages from Discord (out of 150k+ messages I sent in total, 20K were "eligible") using Discorch (discorch.org), but it's a real pain in the ass
Discord doesn't allow deletion requests for messages if they are in a server or grouped DMs you are still a part of (and private DMs don't count because they are "always accessible" on their terms)
For the messages you want to delete, you have to send a deletion request (GDPR if in EU), and that's where Discorch helps : it scans all the messages from the discord data package, puts the eligible one in a csv, and writes a pre-formatted request for you

And what's also neat is that the code runs locally, and is entirely open source and available on Codeberg!
Now to wait for the response (if they comply)

and if that works, I'll probably leave most servers I'm in to delete more messages