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Discord loses things. Channels get cleared, members leave, image links expire. The archive tools exist so anything worth keeping stops depending on Discord.

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The ways in

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right-click a message
Right-click any message, then Apps. The quickest way to keep something.
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a whole thread
Captures a thread as one archive entry.
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part of a channel
A stretch of a channel between two messages.
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the whole thing
An entire channel, exported to a single self-contained HTML file.
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find it again
Search what’s already archived.

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Whole-channel exports

/archive channel downloads attachments and avatars into the export rather than linking to them.
Images still load years later, when the original Discord CDN links are long dead. That’s the entire reason the feature exists.
Exports stream and compress as they go, so a channel with tens of thousands of messages doesn’t need to fit in memory. Large exports come back as a link rather than an attachment.

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Publishing

Archive entries can be published to the public archive page or kept staff-only. Publishing is a deliberate step — nothing archived becomes public on its own.

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/nuke

/nuke destroys message history permanently. It clones a channel’s name, permissions, and position, then deletes the original — messages included. There is no undo.It’s owner-gated, it asks for confirmation, and every run is written to the audit log.Run /archive channel first if there is any chance the history matters.