Change spoilers to minimize and maximize the text to allow more uses

gabe
I'm already loving the spoiler feature on Discord, don't get me wrong, but I think the spoiler tag has a greater potential than what Discord has now. Some websites have spoiler tags that will hide all the text and simply say "Spoiler", and when you click on it, the text is added and you can click the button to hide it again (this is all similar to the current way how blocked messages on Discord are displayed).
Example of what I'm talking about (these examples are both pretty clunky, and of course a version on Discord would be a lot more compact)
What do I mean by potential? Well, if Discord made the spoiler expand/collapse, it could be used to fix a lot of the clutter you see in some serious servers that have #rules, #roles, #faq, etc.. The change would especially be noticeable on mobile versions, where screen real estate is very valuable. I've seen this method used on forums and it works very well to make reading massive forum posts easier. I know that you guys might think this is redundant since there are already channel categories that do a pretty good job at organization, but I think expanding text would just be extra useful inside an actual channel. Plus, I don't currently see much of a downside to doing this, personally I feel like doing this would even look a lot better than just a huge black box!
Here are my two prototypes, both of them are on an example server modeled after Discord Testers.
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  • ||Jojo||
    Sound nice, maybe it could be done that the collapseable text is editable by the admins!
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  • Guardians_Warcry

    I really think this could have tons of uses! I have a team server for a game, and we have different strats. Would be cool to just have. A title of the strat followed by a collapsible text box to hide the details to easily navigate the different strats without he clutter making the scrolling lengthy

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  • ChroniclerEnigma

    I came here exactly by the search of collapsing spoilers. This would be so useful to my server! I'm using it to create references for characters, and it would be helpful to be able to collapse the detail information so it isn't in the way while looking for a different character.

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  • Ophion

    That would definitely be a useful feature. I'd particularly like to have it for bots, so you can display a lot of information in response to a command without completely disrupting the regular chat.

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  • XenAylomen

    Love to sée that coming to discord!

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  • linktober

    This would be an amazing feature. It would definitely help with making rules or information so much smaller and easier to navigate, but it would also remove the need to scan for regular stuff (or use ctrl/cmd+f) This would also be nice for bots as someone had said above.

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  • nkode

    Yes, this definitely needs to happen. This would indeed be extremely helpful in keeping things more tidy and organised. +1

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  • altersky-penguin

    we need this to happen, its been years, discord!

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  • Vivi

    I also came here looking for this exact thing! Discord, please consider adding this! It would make informational/announcement posts so much more neat and tidy!

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  • WaxBalloon

    Chiming in to say I would love this feature as well, it would be very useful to copy import/export strings for various types of data when looking for help without overly cluttering a channel.

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  • bumaks-test

    И мне очень надо такое!

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  • Delected

    Love this idea! It's been 2 years, but nonetheless a good idea that hasn't been implemented

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  • Snork_Games

    So many communities could use this feature!
    Would be a great help for posting large code blocks in programming channels

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  • Skarfie123

    this would be such a useful feature! Would keep the flow of discussion more readable.

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  • Valé

    I'm waiting for such a feature since month, is there any update from a developer on any of this?

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  • Rofii

    Related post: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360061381912-New-Collapsible-Text-feature-for-minimizing-Paragraphs?page=1#community_comment_8304028864151

     

    If you like this idea, you might want to give that a look and "like" it too. It's got more upvotes than this one, despite this one being older and having better visuals.

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