Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

pResearchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discords public API The data was pulled from 3167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024 the entire time Discord has been active ppThough the researchers claim theyve anonymized the data its hard to imagine anyone is comfortable with almost a decade of their Discord messages sitting in a public JSON file online Separately a different programmer released a Discord tool called Searchcord based on a different data set that shows nonanonymized chat histories ppp