Sending, Editing, and Deleting Your Own Messages
How to send messages
Once you have joined or created a server or started a DM, you will likely want to know how to begin sending messages.
The most common places to talk on a server are chat channels, which are recognized by the # symbol next to their name.
The interface for a chat channel and a DM will look very similar so let's use a server in this example. Once you have found a channel to talk in, such as "chat" here, click on the text box near the bottom of the application window in the space that says, "Message chat."
- To send a basic text message, type whatever you want here. Make sure to follow the server's rules you are on and Guilded's Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.
- After typing your message, press Enter/Return on your keyboard to send the message.
Tip: Add attachments to your message with the plus icon on the left end of the messaging text box, or you can send emotes from any server you are on directly into your message with the emote icon
on the right side of the message box.
How to edit messages
Any messages sent will show up directly above the chat text box. The most recent message will show at the bottom of the page, and as you scroll up, you will view older and older messages.
Let's say that you sent a message, but you made a typo or wanted to reword your message to be clearer; fixing this mistake is very easy in Guilded.
- Hover your cursor over the message you want to edit, and this will show you some options at the top right of the message.
- Click the icon with the three vertical dots
to bring up more options.
- In these options, click on Edit.
- After selecting the Edit option, we will get a similar text field to sending our initial message, but instead, we can change and replace our message from earlier.
- Go ahead and fix your message and press Enter/Return to finish editing.
Note: After you have finished editing your message, you will see a little (edited) notice next to it to let users know the message has changed. The edited notice can be hovered over with your cursor to show when the message was changed.
How to delete messages
If you didn't mean to send a message or change your mind, you can quickly and easily delete your message, or if you are a moderator, you may also want to delete a message if somebody is breaking the server's rules.
To delete a message, hover your cursor over the message you want to remove, and this will show you some options at the top right of the message. Click on the far right icon with the three vertical dots to reveal more options.
- After opening these extra options, click on Delete.
- This will immediately make the message disappear from chat, and nobody can view it anymore.
Tip: You can quickly delete messages by holding shift and clicking the red trash can icon to skip opening the extra options menu.