Display reaction authors

[Miepee]

It'd be nice to see, from which user(s) the reactions come from.

[Tyrrrz]

This looks like it's impossible to do with the API because it doesn't return reaction authors
https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#reaction-object

[Miepee]

Oh, well then.
I'll just hope, that the API gets updated sometime, to make that possible.

[Throne3d]

The API lets you get the reaction authors, if you give it a channel, a message, and the relevant emoji: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#get-reactions. I'm not sure if this would be too much overhead in terms of separate requests for the data?

[Tyrrrz]

Hm, this is 1 call per each reaction emoji per each message, that would a lot of requests. I guess Discord itself queries this every time you hover over specific reaction.

[Tyrrrz]

Marking as "wontfix" because of the issue @Throne3d mentioned. Discord queries reaction authors on per-message basis, knowing that it won't need to get it for all messages in the channel. DiscordChatExporter, on the other hand, will have to do it for all messages, which will make it more expensive in terms of time than it's worth.

[omegasome]

@Tyrrrz Why would it have to do it for every single message?

Obviously DCE knows which messages have reactions and even which emoji they are—that's how it knows to display them on a message in the export.

So why couldn't it query who reacted to a message when (and only when) it knows someone did? Is there something I'm missing here? Maybe about the structure of this particular program?

[TheTechRobo]

@omegasome Late response but in big servers, especially announcement channels, that might blow up to hundreds of requests. That's not terribly efficient.