Regarding Group Messaging/Group Chats

Some suggestions I have:

1. DMs

It’s counterintuitive that strangers on a server can now send message requests, but those in the same group chat still cannot talk in private without friending each other like in the past (if I remember correctly), when it’s 1) for the same basic social function, 2) the former has a higher chance for spams and violations because people in the same group chat most likely already share one common friend, have already interacted with each other, and are therefore more verifiable than a stranger from a server of vast uncertainties.

2. Profiles

Similarly, I do not understand why that if you’re not friended in a group chat and do not share a server, you cannot see each other’s profile information, when it’s the same for if you’ve been blocked or have never come across the person on the platform. When people create group chats on Discord, it’s often for social purposes or necessary small discussions outside of a server or stemming from IRL connections, constituting the same minimal level of assumption for interpersonal connections as that of simply being in a server, yet group chats are somehow limited to privacy restrictions that servers are not subjected to and are, again, shared by blocking or the lack of any interaction.

I also know people who merely use Discord as a platform for messaging, who rarely use features like servers. All of this is counterproductive for the universal user experience considering these circumstances.

This neglect for group chats from Discord in effect classifies only sharing a group chat as the same as users not knowing each other at all, which is simply absurd. Sharing a group chat should suffice as the bare minimum for the same basic functions as much as sharing a server.

3. Others

There are many things about group chats that are just primitive. For example, it's bothersome that when a user clicks the "x" on a group chat, the only available assumption is that they want to leave the group chat, when they could just be trying to close a conversation, similar to how DMs can be closed.