New Collapsible Text feature for minimizing Paragraphs
Collapsible Text Feature Request
What would it do?
It would give users the ability to condense large paragraphs of text into just one line. People would be able to click a button to reveal the paragraph, then click it again to hide it. The format that I was able to come up with was putting two brackets on each side of the text you wish to minimize. For example: [[Testing]]
What it would look like in Text:
What people would actually see:
Text expanded:
As you can see, the expanded text would look almost exactly like a quoted text, but it would have a different color to make a distinction between them. Another concept is that it would wrap the text in an "embed" box, something that is very easy to do with Bot API's, but something that is nearly impossible for actual users to send.
Why would this be useful?
It would allow for situations in which you want to have a long paragraph of text, maybe one which includes a liberal amount of line breaks, but you don't want it to clutter up people's screens. It allows for easier organization and would even have some creative uses such as having a message for your server's rules (or other documents) to be neatly hidden without the use of external links and keeping them organized in sections.
Concluding notes
I believe that Collapsible Text would make for a great addition in Discord. If the suggested features aren't implemented, then I would be happy with some alternative, such as adding these features to Spoiler Text, although I would rather it be its own format. This feature not only benefits server admins posting announcements, but it also benefits everyday things such as DMing friends with things such as a long list. If a paragraph seems really long on your PC, then it would be even longer on mobile due to how text is wrapped.
Edit: If the format [[text]] seems a little weird, then you can just swap it out for anything else that works.
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yes
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this would be great
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Especially looking for collapsed Code Blocks. Lots of gamedev commnuties are working on discord, we want to share code blocks without character limitations.
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Absolutely a necessary feature.
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I need this. I share code with a lot of friends, in group chats or servers. There's a good chance a handful of those friends probably don't care for the code and are just following along with the conversation. To be able to collapse the code down would be amazing.
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How about something like...
<<This is the text to display>>This is the hidden text<<
I Love this idea5 -
yes yes yes yes
please. this is so perfect. it would solve a lot of issues where im forced to throw up a text wall for something and let me hide explanations for bulletpoints so its not just an enormous wall of text
this feature should be implemented as soon as possible.
As a bonus, you could include a server rule option that forces all messages over a given number of characters or lines to become auto-collapsed.
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Please do
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I need this. Answering quite long and extensive questions require me to use emojis and formatting to make my answers stand out, by which the entire channel inevitably appears to be cluttered. Collapsing messages would be a lifesaver.
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A year later and only 51 votes?! This should be so much higher.
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Didn't work. Scared that I might get yelled at something awful by server admin.
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Needet it just now. Came here to suggest. Ended up leaving a comment to bump this.
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Seriously, this with a spoiler that you can title would be fabulous.
{[--> Server Rules <--] These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules.}
Would collapse down to like...
--> Server Rules <--
...and expand into seeing all the rules. Like this!
--> Server Rules <--
These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules. These are all my rules.
That would be an amazing feature. Not just blacked out spoiler text! Which does nothing to clean up the appearance of the post at all. And of course make sure to allow all text formatting options possible for full customization! ^.^3 -
I just spent 30 minutes trying to work out how to do this in Discord, because it had to have this feature? Right?
I can't believe this does not exist. The should have just implemented spoilers this way!! All forums use markup for spoilers that collapses the text, why did discord do it differently?
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I'm waiting for such a feature since month, is there any update from a developer on any of this?
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A website I use regularly has this feature and I got so used to it that it took me almost 30 minutes to figure out Discord doesn't have it. I create a lot of resource lists in my server and it would be really nice to be able to collapse them so you don't have to infinitely scroll through rows and rows of info to find what you're looking for.
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An alternative that was useful for me is to save your text in a file and add it to the message.
It will actually display a partially collapsed preview which can be enlarged.The proposed feature would definitely be an improvement over this workaround but it was good enough for me.
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Would be great to be able to encapsulate large codeblocks in these collapsible/expandable tags.
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Looking forward for this feature!
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Discord supports a limited subset of Markdown; Markdown *can* support inline HTML elements such as Details, but it's not required to be supported by a Markdown parser.
<details><summary>The label of the collapsible section</summary> After any HTML element, two newline characters must be present between the HTML and Markdown (so they're separated by a single blank line) for the Markdown parser to know the next lines are Markdown instead of more HTML. However, the Markdown inside the HTML element can be followed by one newline. </details><details><summary>The label of the collapsible section</summary>
After any HTML element, two newline characters (for the HTML and Markdown to be separated by a single blank line) is required for the parser to know what comes next is Markdown instead of more HTML. However, the Markdown can be followed by one newline.
</details>
(Because support.discord.com also doesn't support inline HTML, here's a screenshot of what's supposed to happen)
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A feature request for parsing and rendering Details element in Discord was create ~3 years ago.
The post's URL ends with4404229048087--HTML-details-element-for-embeds-Feature-Request0
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