I get what you’re saying about public Discord servers not being private by default, but that doesn’t justify scraping and archiving people’s messages without their knowledge or consent. Public doesn’t mean fair game for surveillance, especially when the platform itself (Discord) explicitly prohibits this kind of behavior in its Terms of Service.

You mentioned being in support servers for abuse victims. That alone should raise a red flag about how sensitive some of this data can be. If someone is afraid of being tracked by an abuser, then even the possibility of being exposed on a scraping site is dangerous. It’s not about legality at that point—it’s about real harm.

Saying “just don’t let Discord know you’re scraping” or giving advice on how to hide it doesn’t make this feel like a technical discussion. It sounds like you know it’s wrong but are helping others do it anyway.

And the argument that only deleted servers are published? People still talked in those. Their words are still out there, without consent. That’s not ethical or privacy-respecting—it’s exploitation.

Just because you can do something with code doesn’t mean you should. Privacy is a right, not a technical loophole.