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Ticket UUID: 559c0ce1ae3dd8647f0c8a6a9b887b17321c1091
Title: Bookmarking Entire Servers.
Status: Open Type: Feature_Request
Severity: Minor Priority: Low
Subsystem: Discord Resolution: Open
Last Modified: 2021-07-17 17:08:02
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LycanPropaganda2020-07-11 00:15:22

I would really like it if it were possible to bookmark entire servers rather than just channels, or have something like what Discord does where i could group up a bunch of servers under categories i create so i don't have to scroll through all of the servers i have.

cancel2020-07-12 00:35:49

Similar to 46d41247db

There are serious problems that arise if you can bookmark an entire Discord server/guild. One is that it creates a lot of items in the sidebar without much effort from the user. If you bookmarked 50 servers each a couple of times, and they were large servers, you could end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of items in the sidebar (especially if it's a server with a lot of active voice channels.) Technically, the Ripcord sidebar supports 2^31 (about 2 billion) items in the sidebar without issues, but the RAM consumption and idle CPU usage (due to having to update stuff for listing/tracking users in voice channels) starts to become a problem, especially if you also open multiple windows. It also becomes difficult to scroll, if you expand everything.

It's the user's responsibility to not intentionally get themselves into a situation where they've configured their software to behave badly. But allowing easy bookmarking of entire servers/guilds is somewhat of a silent foot-gun.

You could add additional rules like "OK, you can only bookmark a server once" but now you have to explain these rules somewhere and add special-cased rules for the UI elements and stuff. Maybe it's worth it, maybe not. And some people would then ask to remove the limit of only bookmarking once.

So: I don't really have an answer right now. Still thinking about it. Maybe you could bookmark a placeholder shortcut to a server/guild, but not expand it in the bookmark list? Hmm.

he3als2021-07-17 17:08:02

I would think this would be good as a feature, because this could be a substitute for server folders. On the regular version of Discord, I have all my servers categorized and I would appreciate it if it was the same on Ripcord.

Couldn't you just collapse the Discord category (if you organized all of your servers into bookmarks) anyways to reduce the amount of items in the sidebar?