Desktop App (v47)

General

• Added option to install a browser userscript, as an alternative to copying the tracking script into the console
  • The userscript adds a DHT button to the top bar
  • The DHT button prompts for a 'connection code', which can be copied from the app
  • Pasting the connection code loads the tracking script from the app
• Updated tracking script to work with the latest version of Discord
• Closing the app while the database is finishing work now shows a progress dialog instead of freezing
• Added an "Additional Thanks" section to the About dialog

Technical

• Updated Avalonia to 11.3.0
• Server icons are now stored in the database, but currently unused

Desktop App (v46)

General

• Added option to use a separate database file for downloaded files
  • Separating the downloads improves performance of certain scenarios
  • In the future, it will be possible to open a database even when the secondary database for downloaded files is missing
  • If you wish to migrate an existing database, create a new database and use "Merge with Database(s)..." to merge the old database into the new one
• Added option to export all downloaded files into a folder
• Improved performance when opening and loading the viewer
• Moved the Vacuum button into the Database tab
• Updated the About dialog

Technical

• Reduced size of the app
• Fixed storing wrong size of a downloaded file in the metadata
• Improved error handling in progress dialogs (again)
• Switched from MVVM Toolkit to PropertyChanged.SourceGenerator

Desktop App (v45)

General

• Removing messages now also removes orphaned servers, channels, users, and attachments
  • This will be done automatically when opening an older database in this version
  • Orphaned downloaded files can be removed in the Downloads tab, it will not happen automatically
• Fixed showing wrong keyboard shortcut for opening dev tools on macOS

Technical

• Updated to .NET 9
• Updated Avalonia to 11.2.3
• From now on, macOS users will have to download the "Other" (portable) version, and follow its usage instructions
• Added some missing foreign keys to database schema
• Improved error handling in progress dialogs

Desktop App (v44)

General

• Added main menu button to check for app updates
• Added option to hide images and other previews while tracking with autoscrolling
• Messages from blocked users are now tracked
• Fixed broken reactions on messages with polls
  • Polls themselves are not saved yet

Technical

• Rewrote tracking script to use Discord client functions instead of relying on the DOM or React properties
• Downloads are now stored in temporary files
  • For small files, this should only touch fast filesystem caches
  • For large files, this eliminates database concurrency issues caused by slow downloads

Note

The downloads were rebuilt and reuplodaed due to #274.

Desktop App (v43.1)

General

• Fixed error when migrating databases with deleted messages

Desktop App (v43)

General

• Downloading state and filter settings are now remembered per-database
• Creating a new database now asks if automatic downloads should be enabled
• Fixed not updating download URLs when re-tracking messages with failed downloads
• Fixed error when tracking announcements with attachments across multiple channels
• Updated the About dialog

Technical

• Updated Avalonia to 11.0.11
• Updated SQLite provider to 8.0.7 (SQLite version 3.41.2)

Desktop App (v42.1)

General

• Added support for global display names of users and hid user discriminators
• Fixed viewer compatibility with older browsers
• Fixed viewer menu styling

Desktop App (v42)

General

• Reworked "Open Viewer" (see #246)
  • Exported messages are loaded from the app, similarly to downloaded files
  • Significantly reduced time to load the viewer and memory usage
  • It is now possible to view much larger archives in browsers that were previously unable to load them
  • "Save Viewer" has been removed, as it's incompatible with the new viewer and downloaded files
• Fixed broken links to image embeds (since v41.0)

Desktop App (v41.2)

General

• Downloading files and viewing downloaded files uses less memory
• Fixed active downloads timing out
• Fixed timed out downloads not being marked as failed

Technical

• Added -concurrentdownloads command line argument for setting the number of concurrent downloads (between 1-10)
• Fixed uncaught exceptions not rolling back pending database transactions

Desktop App (v41.1)

General

• Fixed error after a recent Discord update