Learned today that Discord doesn't allow you to just delete a DM conversation. You can only close it.

You have to delete every individual message inside for them to be gone. Insane.

@gamingonlinux It's not a bug, it's a feature. Reading Discord's privacy policy will explain it: they want all your data and they want to keep that data, because you are the product being sold.

So if you're a company (Discord) with an atrocious privacy policy and a history of leaking government documents provided by users for ID, you're obviously going to exploit every bit of data you can for profit, that's #discord's business model, so of course data is going to be hard for the user to delete.

@Rastal @gamingonlinux Except that their privacy policy explicitly states they do not sell your data. At least not yet. Discord is going public and who knows what will happen after that, going public never went well for the users regarding other companies.

https://www.reuters.com/business/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-us-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-06/