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LowText channels
Read Message History
READ_MESSAGE_HISTORY
Lets the bot fetch messages sent before it was looking. Needed to edit or react to older messages.
- Value
- 65536
- Bit
- 1 << 16
- Hex
- 0x10000
- Channel types
- Text, Voice, Stage
Discord's description: “Allows for reading of message history.”
In the bot examples
Moderation botuses it
Look back at messages for context and purges
Ticket botuses itBuild transcripts
Reaction & button rolesuses it (optional)React to existing menu messages
Giveaway botuses it (optional)Read reactions on older giveaways
Leveling / XP botdoes not need itXP counts new messages as they arrive.