"Deceased" status for the user profile.
The idea of a user profile memorization.
Popular social networks have recently begun to offer ways to officially memorialize the accounts of the deceased (Instagram, Facebook, VK)
Discord is not a typical social network, but its policies are interesting and I'm sure this feature is needed here as well.
I have tried to describe my personal concept of this function in detail below. I am sure that implementation, if possible, requires the employee department to answer the question - do we really want to do this? But I assure you, you really should think about this question after reading this feedback post.
What do you do with profiles of deceased users?
We can do one of the following:
- Delete the account.
- Revoke access and memorialize the account. The privacy settings can be changed so that only friends have access to the account details. To do this, you'll need to contact Support.
- Revoke access and change privacy settings.
In the last two cases, the profile of the deceased user won't display the “Online”, “Idle”, “DND” or “Offline” status, but instead the words '''Deceased" (pic. 1)
To delete the account of a deceased user, Discord will need a request from a family member of the account's owner and a photo of the death certificate and proof of a phone number tied to the account. Photo's should be in color and high-quality and clearly shows the complete document's. You will be able to attach documents through Discord Support service.
P.S — In addition to the status, I was also thinking about a pop up window that would appear for a couple of seconds and notify that the user is deceased, and after the expiration of time - disappeared and so every time you view the account as a whole.
I hope you pay attention to this, it means a lot to me, thank you 🙏
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I think this is quite an interesting idea. Perhaps this is not so necessary for discord, and there will also be people who will abuse this and use it for their own purposes. The idea has the right to life and further implementation. So, if a person is playing with friends and is gone for a long time, they may be at a loss if their friend goes missing. With such a function, his friends will immediately understand what happened and will be aware of this “situation”.
You can also consider this proposal: let the relative of the deceased be able to leave their contact information, which will only be seen by users added as friends. This is necessary so that his friends can tell the relatives of the deceased something about him; and so that other users do not see contacts — relatives do not need unnecessary worries. I will repeat about the main idea NeverCookFirsts's — it is really interesting, it would be interesting to implement this on the Discord platform.
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Thanks for the feedback, Loky, appreciate that and I totally agree with your idea about friends knowing right away what's up.
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I think it's a good idea, some of my friends have been offline for a long time and I don't know what's up with them.
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Yes, it's a great idea, but I don't think many people would use it, because it's not the first thing a deceased person needs. I think it is possible to somehow synchronize with user integrations. For example, if the Facebook/Instagram account is marked like this, then discord will mark the account, but it can be restored by the account owner.
Of course, this will be used by users for the purpose of fun, but I think the benefits will be higher than the problems from the function…
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I really need this feature. I have set up my Youtube channel, Facebook profile and Instagram account in advance, and I have only a Discord account left.
I hope that you will implement it!
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