I’m currently in a few group chats that I really want to leave, but I don’t want to deal with the awkwardness of that system message popping up saying I left.
Is there any trick to leave a group without it notifying everyone else, or does it always show that message no matter what? I just want to slip out quietly without causing any drama.
From a protocol standpoint, this is effectively impossible.
When you leave a group, your client sends a DELETE request to the API endpoint for that specific channel’s recipients. This action triggers a server-side event called CHANNEL_RECIPIENT_REMOVE.
Once the Discord backend processes that event, it automatically generates a System Message and pushes it to the client of every other person in that group. Because this message generation happens on Discord’s servers and not on your local client, there is no way to intercept or suppress it via a mod or plugin.
The only way to technically ‘leave’ without generating that packet is to simply Mute the group and close it. This keeps your user ID in the recipients list (so no leave event is fired) but stops the notifications from appearing in your client.
Be a man and announce in CAPS to the whole chat that the place sucks ass and you’re dipping!
haha this is a classic scene! haven’t seen that in years.
I don’t believe there is a way to leave the chat without Discord announcing it to everyone. I actually hate this feature myself.