Hidden Active Threads

[imanataee]

Description

It seems the "hide after inactivity" option for threads is not working properly and is not closing the thread after the inactivity duration
What happens is that the threads will not be shown in the channel list of participants, but does not get archived (basically like a forum post)
This results into hidden active threads that can quickly result into servers hitting the 1000 threads cap

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a thread with any "HIDE AFTER INACTIVITY" amount
2. Wait for that amount of time

Expected Behavior

Thread gets hidden and closed

Current Behavior

Thread gets hidden, but remains active

Client and System Information

Discord desktop client

[imanataee]

A helpful CM in the Discord Admin Community pointed this out:
#5365

It has been mentioned that:

Threads automatically archive after 7 days of inactivity (as a server approaches the max thread limit this timer will automatically lower, but never below the auto_archive_duration). "Activity" is defined as sending a message, unarchiving a thread, or changing the auto-archive time. The auto_archive_duration field previously controlled how long a thread could stay active, but is now repurposed to control how long the thread stays in the channel list. Channels can also set default_auto_archive_duration, which is used by our clients to pre-select a different auto_archive_duration value when a user creates a thread.

Probably it is supposed to be a convenience feature, but this part of it doesn't work correctly. Because at least my server hit the max thread limit having threads with 1 hour or 24 hours auto archive (by API requests) being there for 4 days or so

[ajpalkovic]

It sounds like this is working as intended. The docs were updated yesterday to reflect this change.
We'll keep an eye on how many servers are hitting the thread limit as always, but right now it's seven, across all of Discord which is a good sign that things are still working.

[ajpalkovic]

Apologies, you were right about it not working :D One of the parts of the new system actually didn't get deployed, so I've kicked that off and I'll make sure that happens today!

[imanataee]

Amazing! Thank you for the attention and care @ajpalkovic <3

[ajpalkovic]

Are things working better now?

[imanataee]

I made a bot solution for the auto-archive before the bug report, so my threads went down from 1000 to 100, which makes me unable to confirm if things are better now
But I can try to turn the bot off to make sure or make 900 threads (?)

[MarcusOtter]

I encountered this bug today. I set the auto_archive_duration to 1 hour. After 1 hour, the thread is hidden in the client, but it is not archived. I can still react and press buttons in it. And for what it's worth, discord.js does not emit a threadUpdate event after this hour is up, which indicates to me that the API is still broken around this. @ajpalkovic

[advaith1]

@MarcusOtter as people mentioned earlier in this thread, that is an intentional change documented in #5365; auto_archive_duration now controls hiding, not archiving

[MarcusOtter]

Ah, I skimmed the docs PR and missed the last part. Thanks.

Threads automatically archive after 7 days of inactivity (as a server approaches the max thread limit this timer will automatically lower, but never below the auto_archive_duration)

EDIT:
Too bad the "hiding" part doesn't exist in the API. I want my bot to react to thread start messages when they were auto-archived without a reply by someone, which would help people find threads that they didn't respond to in time.

[ayyneya]

@ajpalkovic

Hi, is there any way around this change?
Threads in my server get used more than normal channels, archive after 1h or 24h kept our sanity.

Now with them archiving after 7 days, I have approx 40 threads open now. It's really cluttered.

[ajpalkovic]

nah, it's all good, from the data it's definitely working

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