Closed Stuart1998 closed 11 months ago
Duplicate of #120, the main issue is that Discord's (now-broken?) original embeds are essentially bot/webhook embeds which is an important distinction because they offer richer functionality than 3rd party websites are able to offer using their completely different kind of embed. What this means is that referencing dates in a relative way (i.e. 24 minutes ago) doesn't work as we can't update it, and absolute dates (i.e. 2023/11/06 @ 12:30) presents a number of unique issues:
For these reasons, I chose not to implement them. If I could find some kind of way to add the date without delivering a compromised experience then I certainly would, but at the moment it doesn't seem to be possible. I would love to be proven wrong or for Discord to add more functionality to their embeds, though.
(Also no, you can't use Discord formatting in website embeds either)
If I have any workarounds or news regarding this issue I'll mention it here though and reopen #120 if there are plans to implement this in the future.
Old twitter embeds in discord used to include a timestamp, this was very useful and is sorely missing in current fixtweet embeds in discord.