As much as I want something like discord to succeed, it throws all cautions to the wind with user data. There is rentention in two databases of every chat message sent. If somebody ever gets access they could crawl all their info and learn most of their private life through it.
Steam on the other hand will not retain more than 5ish of the last messages.
I'd say it's fine aslong as users could set a duration for their messages automatically, but Discord doesn't even have a mass deletion option. Their API has been Incapable of mass deletion further than 2 weeks.
I have no doubt there will be some major leaks in the future that ruin someone's life.
Steam on the other hand will not retain more than 5ish of the last messages.
I'd say it's fine aslong as users could set a duration for their messages automatically, but Discord doesn't even have a mass deletion option. Their API has been Incapable of mass deletion further than 2 weeks.
I have no doubt there will be some major leaks in the future that ruin someone's life.