I own one of the servers that you scraped and uploaded without consent. This violates Discord TOS and a whole host of privacy laws and I will be taking action.
cry lol. discord is a company that doesn't care about you
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#82How can i talk to you via dms?
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The sheer audacity here is quite something. You're stating people can't use your scraped data for commercial purposes "without permission," while your entire project is built on vacuuming up content from countless users without their permission, and in direct violation of Discord's ToS. That's not just a double standard; it's bordering on next-level cognitive dissonance. Not really, it is not free to host and serve…
Okay, the "not really" and "I'll solve that problem if and when" responses are... something else. It feels like you're speedrunning how to get into a world of trouble while hand-waving away every legitimate concern. Let's try to unpack this again, because your justifications are frankly baffling. > Again, not really. It's impossible to search for users without already knowing what server they are in. This is function…
The COPPA part is only if it was knowingly.
Re: Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers
#84This project was (I assume) now taken down after widespread backlash from Discord users who never consented to having their messages scraped, indexed, and published. The opt-out system was not "one click"—it required navigating a server where users were mocked and dismissed for objecting to their inclusion. While the developer claimed to be protecting privacy, the system displayed usernames and full message content f…
The "community spaces" opted-in to the discovery platform. It not only requires confirmation from the server owners but also that the server has specific metrics to even be elegible to enter. If the users don't want their messages to be public they should complain to the server owners instead.
The problem of "not being able to easily search Discord server" is a real problem. Not too long ago I was unable to find any information about UE4 modding and had to dig deep until I found a few discord servers centered about it. The only place of information aside from two small docs sites.
Re: Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers
#85I own one of the servers that you scraped and uploaded without consent. This violates Discord TOS and a whole host of privacy laws and I will be taking action.
Wait until you find out about all the three-letter agencies and private scrapers doing the same.
Probably best to not let it keep you up at night, especially on public servers you yourself explicitly decided to *opt-in* to Discord's 'Discovery' feature, but who am I to say.
Re: Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers
#86hopefully a legal action is taken against such abhorrent project blatantly violating users' privacy
and in it's place, rather than a service that was censoring usernames in the interest of privacy being the leading service holding the spotlight, in the future we'll surely get another spy.pet created for the explicit purpose of doxxing getting all the attention and revenue.
Round of applause all around, great job everyone!
Next we should take down the internet archive, another "abhorrent project blatantly violating users' privacy" for all the forums it's archived over the years. Who knows, maybe there's a post by a gasp 12-year-old in there somewhere! Maybe even a European!
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, This is absolutely something I want to do, but at the guild level. The database itself is over 13TB which is much to large to create regular exports of. I will probably provide a SQLite export of each guild, regenerated each week/month. Anyone is free to download whatever they want in real time from the API. Thanks for your question!
Big +1 for dumps You might try reaching out to Anna's Archive and see if this would be a dataset they'd be interested in helping host/distribute. I think they'd agree that such data is important and should be archived.
Yes, we'd happily host and torrent this.
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#88How much storage did you had to use? also are you shutting down already? its a shame that I couldn't find like minded people like me..
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#89This project was (I assume) now taken down after widespread backlash from Discord users who never consented to having their messages scraped, indexed, and published. The opt-out system was not "one click"—it required navigating a server where users were mocked and dismissed for objecting to their inclusion. While the developer claimed to be protecting privacy, the system displayed usernames and full message content f…
What was the developer's status message? There's no easy way to find it now. Can you share what it was? Thanks!
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