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by dejawu 1028 days ago
It's also possible to see the names, topics, and timestamp of the last message of hidden channels through their API. The channels are only hidden on the client-side. (To be clear, it's still not possible to view the contents of these channels.)
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And also who is in the channel (more generally, you can see the permission overrides on all channels)

It's been a long time since I did any Discord API work but I had assumed they would have fixed this by now. I realise it makes things simpler and more cacheable, but IMO it's a critical and inexcusable user privacy issue to have this behavior with no indication to ordinary users that their hidden channel is in fact quite visible to savvy users. This would be like Google Drive allowing anyone to query filenames (just not content) of private folders