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by hooloovoo_zoo 1324 days ago
They’re very different scaling problems though. Discord only has to handle very small graphs and most of the data is never stored.
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nulld3v 1324 days ago
> most of the data is never stored.

Doesn't Discord currently have an infinite retention policy?

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AlchemistCamp 1324 days ago
That's right. Unlike Slack, they don't delete or archive older messages, even on free accounts. This is a major reason more and more open source projects have been migrating from Slack to Discord.
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