GFD

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idk why Discord can’t just not break things

clicking on some user links / @⁠mentions in my bot logging channels is now giving a pop‐up denying access to the profile:

Screenshot of a Discord pop‐up dialogue which reads: “You don't have access to this link. This link is to a user you don't have access to.”

additionally, the right‐click menu on these no longer has any moderator actions:

Redacted screenshot of a Discord bot message about a member join event. The mention contains the numbers of their user ID instead of the letters of their username, and the right‐click menu on the mention only shows 1 option: “Copy User ID”.

this removes the ability to ban users who aren’t server members and have no posted messages using the GUI. (this has always been impossible on the mobile clients.) i believe they can still be manually banned by ID using commands, but having quick access to these actions from the bot logging channel was a big time‐saver, and more accessible for moderators who aren’t comfortable with commands.

my own testing has shown that this new behaviour only happens when the @⁠mention only shows the user ID and hasn’t resolved to the display name yet (buggy behaviour that’s been around for years). scrolling around in the channel history or switching between channels such that the @⁠mention is forced to reload can sometimes cause the @⁠mention to change into a proper one that can be interacted with properly (this screenshot is of the exact same log message as the one above):

Redacted screenshot of a Discord bot message about a member join event. It is the same event as the previous screenshot, but this time the mention contains the letters of their username, and the right‐click menu shows all the usual user and moderator actions, including “ban”.

this does not happen because the user is no longer a server member. user profiles have always been accessible regardless of membership status, even if they don’t load everything:

Redacted screenshot of a Discord bot message about a member ban event. The mention has been clicked on to show the user profile popup, and a notice icon in the top‐right corner of this popup has a tooltip that reads: “Unable to load profile banner, badges, and about me.”

i want to say this is a bug, but this new behaviour of telling me i don’t have access to these user links is consistent between the mobile and web/desktop clients. i have no idea what on earth Discord is doing, but it’s making our jobs as moderators needlessly more difficult.

you may have noticed that i apparently have access to a new “Mod View” feature in the proper right‐click menu. that looks like this:

Redacted screenshot of the Discord Mod View sidebar UI. The member’s profile picture, display name, and username are shown at the top along with a button to close the panel. Below this are 5 buttons for “Message”, “Kick”, “Ban”, “Timeout”, and “Copy ID”. Several sections follow: “server activity” lists how many messages, links, and media the member has sent on the server; “mod permissions” shows what moderator permissions the member has if any; “roles” shows what roles the member has, plus a button to add more roles; “account” shows whether the member passed the server’s verification level, what their join dates for the Discord service and the server are, and what their join method was, which in this case is “Unknown”; and “moderator action log” shows audit log events pertaining to the user, in this case an “update member roles” event which includes information on which user added which roles.

this is moderately useful, but it does not work/load at all for users who aren’t server members. what’s the deal with Discord inhibiting moderators from taking actions on users who aren’t members?? users joining, posting some stuff that either gets caught by bots or that they delete shortly thereafter, leaving, and repeating this process is not an esoteric situation! if we didn’t have a bot logging message deletion and member join/leave events, we’d be hard‐pressed to do anything about these events unless we happened to be present the moment they happened!

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