Ability for Admins/Mods to move messages from a channel to a thread

[Taimoor-Tariq]

It would be great if there is a new permission that lets the user move messages from a channel to a thread.

Many people are still unaware of threads in my server even though we tell them everytime, so conversations become confusing quick. It would be great if we can move the messages and let the participants know that they can continue in the thread.

[ckohen]

If this did happen, though unlikely, I would moreso like to see threads created off the nudge when replying to a reply chain move the messages in said chain to the thread. It is technically possible to do this with a bot right now, but the UX is not great and reversing the reply chain is not fun.

[sojs-coder]

https://top.gg/bot/1110706043744432128... no reversing reply chane... A simple list.reverse is easy enough of a fix for this

[ajpalkovic]

I'd love this, realistically though, there's no near term plans for this, and it's a quite complicated thing to do correctly.

[sojs-coder]

+1 it can not actually happen.. but it can be simulated

[erkinalp]

In a well-known open source reimplementation of Discord API, I have actually implemented cross-channel replies, just one step short of moving messages across channels, and could confidently say this would cause no client-side problems towards most implementations, except a few Java and C# implementations which have too strict typing in the precondition checks.

[rolfen]

It is very simple technically, you just have to change the parent of the message. However it seems to be very complicated to get discord to do any improvement requested by their users.

[JochCool]

What's the API request?

[ftilly]

Merging threads, channels and guilds would also be useful so the contents of the merged would appear in chronological order, even if only done on the clientside