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[User Data] Backup settings to local or online storage

ZaneAU
Previous topics: - https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043353252 Concept: keep user data in a file the user can backup and replentish on their own. Default: a discord-info.json file, stored in one of /sdcard/Downloads or /sdcard/Backups (by default), or shared to some external manager (eg discord-info.json), with several fields: - app settings (app_settings: {voice, appearance, a11y, textchat, browser, notifications, activity}) - favourite emotes - most recent emotes In terms of emotes, they could be processed as a pair of u64 values (emote_id, bitmask {favourite, uses, discordEpoch(last_used)}) and be more useful in that way. Why? Well whenever I post something I'm asked to uninstall and reinstall the app, and that just means I lose a lot of setup that I had before. Every time a redesign comes around, too,
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  • ZaneAU

    Every time a redesign comes around, it clears my user settings as well, making it an absolute pain to get in touch with support and try and get them to pass along something as simple as "hey this part of your ui is broken can you pass it onto dev channel"

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