Comment by IanCal

> Chat messages derive from physical mail, not phone calls

Chat messages are not physical things and trying to apply laws that are based on important distinctions with regards to physical things to features in an application is not useful. Even then, you can still send someone something but retain rights over it.

> Those first phone calls were direct evolution of spoken conversation

Frankly I find it a little weird that a fast back and forth chat on discord over the internet is being likened more to sending a physical bit of paper with delays of multiple days per message than a chat over the phone.

First letter: Hi. Do you have a minute

Reply: Yes. What is it?

Second letter: I've got a problem.

Reply: Is this on the new product?

And it's a week later.

The name of it is even a chat message. To say chat messages are not like a chat is weird to me just because they're not audio files.

I strongly think either comparison is irrelevant but I'm quite surprised at the distinction you're trying to draw.

Worth remembering what the start of this was though, which was that deleting messages on discords servers was described as a feature.