[ivraatiems]

I've been watching a slow enshittification of Discord over the last few years and preparing to move to the Next Thing in a year or two, but this actually seems like a great move, and technically interesting. Is there a downside/drawback I'm not seeing?

[slashink]

The goal here has been for this to be transparent to users and "just work", hopefully you should see no downsides to this! If you do, let us know!

[Akashic101]

This does seem a nice feature and definitely a step in the right direction but why use e2ee for video and audio but not chat? That's afterall where most of Discords activity is happening

[Gigachad]

Because E2EE causes an absolute ton of friction to the chat experience. Stuff that you expect to just work like chat history and searching no longer works.

[Akashic101]

Isn't WhatsApp e2ee as well? You can search that one just fine

[Ukv]

Haven't used WhatsApp but presumably it indexes client-side. On Discord people want to search large servers including messages since before they joined, so this approach wouldn't really work.

That said, it could potentially work for DMs.