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Comments on How can I disable channel drag and drop in Discord?

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How can I disable channel drag and drop in Discord?

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When using Discord in a web browser, on a server where I have admin privileges, I sometimes find that I've accidentally moved a channel, which affects everyone on the server and can affect channel permissions, so that's bad. You move channels by clicking and dragging, but apparently the interface is more sensitive than I'm used to: I think when this happens I move the mouse to a channel and click on it to view it, but maybe the mouse was still slightly in motion when I clicked? I'm not sure, but training myself isn't working and I don't have this problem with other UIs. I'm looking for a way to add some friction so I can't accidentally do this, without giving up my admin rights in general. (I do need those.)

I searched for a way to lock the channels or otherwise prevent this and found lots of other people with my problem (1 2 3), but no solutions. A client-side solution (for example a userscript) would be fine (but I don't know enough to write it). I'm not interested in switching to an app; I want to use Discord in my browser.

How can I stop accidentally messing with the channels list?

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Since there seem to be no userscripts for this, I wrote one myself. It should work with all major userscript managers and browsers. The script prevents the dragstart event and thus drag and drop for the channel list. Additionally, there is a button to reactivate drag and drop if you want to rearrange the channels or drag users to different voice channels without reloading the page.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Discord channel drag and drop disabler
// @version      1.0
// @description  Disables channel drag and drop in Discord web app
// @author       Zer0
// @match        https://discord.com/**
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(async () => {
    'use strict';
    
    function modifyChannelList(channelListElement) {
        let dragEnabled = false;

        // Add container element
        const container = document.createElement('div');
        container.style.paddingLeft = '8px';
        container.style.paddingBottom = '8px';
        channelListElement.appendChild(container);
        
        // Add toggle button with discord-like styling
        const toggleButton = document.createElement('button');
        toggleButton.style.color = '#FFF';
        toggleButton.style.backgroundColor = 'rgb(71, 82, 196)';
        toggleButton.style.borderRadius = '3px';
        toggleButton.style.padding = '2px 16px';
        toggleButton.style.width = '100%';
        function updateButton(enabled) {
            toggleButton.innerHTML = enabled ? 'Disabled Drag and Drop' : 'Enable Drag and Drop';
        }
        updateButton(dragEnabled);
        toggleButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
            dragEnabled = !dragEnabled;
            updateButton(dragEnabled);
        });
        container.appendChild(toggleButton);

        function addDragHandler(elements) {
            elements.forEach(e => {
                e.addEventListener('dragstart', ev => {
                    if (!dragEnabled) {
                        // Prevent channel drag and drop
                        ev.stopImmediatePropagation();
                        // Prevent link drag and drop (browser default)
                        ev.preventDefault();
                    }
                });
            });
        }
        // Add custom drag handler to all channel elements
        addDragHandler(channelListElement.querySelectorAll('li'));

        // Add custom drag handler to all future channel elements (when a new channel is created)
        const observer = new MutationObserver(m => addDragHandler(m.flatMap(e => [...e.addedNodes]).filter(e => e instanceof HTMLElement && e.tagName === 'LI')));
        observer.observe(channelListElement, { childList: true, subtree: true });

        return () => observer.disconnect();
    }


    let channels = document.getElementById('channels');
    let cleanup = null;

    if (channels) {
        cleanup = modifyChannelList(channels);
    }

    // Searches for the channel list element if the site changes
    const mainObserver = new MutationObserver(() => { 
        const newChannels = document.getElementById('channels');
        if (newChannels !== null && channels !== newChannels) {
            channels = newChannels;
            if (cleanup) {
                cleanup();
            }
            cleanup = modifyChannelList(channels);
        }
    });
    mainObserver.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
})();
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Works for me
Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 1 year ago

This is great, thank you! I've just installed this using TamperMonkey and it works as advertised.