Original Summary

The idea was a server where nobody can tell who anyone is. Not nicknames, actually anonymous. The obvious approach is one channel plus a relay bot. That fails immediately: everyone's in the channel, so you get a member list, and Discord shows typing indicators, so you can watch someone type and see the "anonymous" message land a second later. So there is no shared channel. Every member gets their own private set, and nobody can see anyone else's. You type in yours, the bot rewrites the message as Anonymous, deletes your original, and relays it into everyone else's. You see one conversation. There's no member list to scroll, no profile to open, and nothing connecting two messages to the same person. The interesting part is what that costs. Channels. Each member needs 7, and Discord caps a server at 500. That's about 67 members per server. So the bot spills into additional servers and DMs people an invite when one fills. Bots can't create servers any more, so those are pre-made and it just routes between them. Message grouping. This one got me twice. Discord merges consecutive messages from the same webhook into one block, and it ignores the avatar when deciding. So three different people's messages would render as one person talking. Fix was two webhooks per channel, alternating by author, with the second using a Cyrillic "А" in the name so Discord sees a different username while it looks identical. That fix then broke in a way I only found yesterday. Staff messages post as the bot rather than a webhook and recorded a sentinel value of -1, which the alternation logic did arithmetic on and landed outside the valid range. Every message after a staff post used one webhook with one name, and the grouping came back. It only ever triggered after I said something, which is why it looked random. It's in beta with a handful of people. Happy to go into any of it, the relay was the fun bit   submitted by   /u/Next-Drink [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/20 08:06:42