are you able to show an example of it being used?
#discosteganog - abuse of discord formatting to create "secret" messages
iron mango
robust tusk
I did :3
the original message
click Copy Text on it
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this isnt a very practical or useful creation lol
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light kettle
Idk how this looks on desktop, but on mobile:
light kettle
The "secret message" causes a ton of blank lines on mobile
light kettle
Why not just use a zero width space and a bunch of invisible combining characters?
robust tusk
- i didnt know that was a thing
- its more fun to know I did it by abusing discord's formatting features
cursive rock
novel reef
reef apex
The text is transparent for me on mobile, so I see this massive blank space
Also crashes discord for me when I try to leave the channel
reef apex
Okay I crash every time I open and leave the #1024381264213594242 channel, even if I don’t open the post. Not sure if it’s this formatting abuse or not
light kettle
Yeah that's weird
robust tusk
Okay I crash every time I open and leave the <#1024381264213594242> channel, eve...
oh no, that's not good
doesnt do that for me on mobile, weirdly
nvm it does, but only when i leave the projects channel (going out of the post is fine?)
sorry for that
robust tusk
looks like putting it in code text? to disable the formatting stopped the crashing
reef apex
Yep. Looks like you found an exploit to crash lots of mobile users.
Post that in a big server and watch chaos unfold
robust tusk
lol how about no
it only seems to crash (me) when its in the initial thingy of the post
do you still crash or is it ok now?
robust tusk
im gonna make a bug report to discord lol
reef apex
What is strange is that you’ve sent three other messages with the formatting in it— two in here and one in #programming-discussion — and those don’t crash me. Must be something special with the forum original post?
willow trout
opening this thread on my phone bricked my discord app. It crashed and everytime i reopen discord it instanly closes, since it is trying to load where it left of >.>
reef apex
Is it still broken after the formatting in the original post was put in a code block?
willow trout
it was broken until just now. maybe it has to do with me opening discord on my pc
robust tusk
opening this thread on my phone bricked my discord app. It crashed and everytime...
very strange, sorry for causing that