Discord is one of the most enjoyable places on the internet , where you can chat with a wide range of people and communities to suit your preferences. Apart from connecting with people who share your interests and communities, Discord can also be a venue to fake messages, usually to have fun and pleasure. Faking messages on Discord was possible using Discord’s Inspect Element option on the PC (Windows and Mac) in its application. However, recently, users have been complaining their experience that Discord Inspect Element is not working in their PC application.
Users have reported the following issue: when you press Ctrl + Shift + I , or Command + Option + keys when using the Windows and Mac PCs, respectively however, there isn’t an Insect Elements window that pops up. This means that users can’t make use of this Inspect Element feature in their Discord application any longer. What is the reason for this? Let’s look into it.
Why is the Discord Inspect Element not Working?
Many Discord users are unhappy about the inability of Inspect Element feature on the Discord PC application. You might consider it an issue, but it is the case that Discord has removed its Inspect Element feature itself. One of Discord’s staff members have confirmed this via an earlier Reddit threads.
According to what a Discord staff member reported, Discord has officially disabled the Inspect Element feature on its stable version of its desktop application. The reason given here is that as users are becoming more socially-engineered, the more ordinary users could access Inspector mode (Inspect Element) which further increases the chance that their Discord account being compromised.
You can also see that the Discord staff member has also shared a workaround that includes pasting the following code to the settings.json Discord file found in the %appdata%/discord/settings.json location in Windows.
“DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING”: true
However, this method isn’t working any longer. It doesn’t work on Windows or on Mac. The inclusion of the file didn’t perform anything when testing this method with my Mac as well as my Windows PC. When you launch Discord when you add the script in the settings.json file it is restored to its previous state by removing the code line.
Therefore, the whole scenario is that if you use the Discord stable application on your computer, you are not allowed to access the Inspect Element feature.
What should you do what to do if Inspect Element is not working in the Discord application
In the event that the Stable Discord desktop application does not provide the purpose of using inspect Elements What else could be done as an alternative. There are two options for how you can make use of Inspect Elements in Discord.
- Make use of Discord Web
While the company has stopped the inspection feature in the app, it can be available and used through Discord’s web platform. Discord Web platform. You can check the web pages of Discord by opening the discord application in an internet browser on your computer. It is possible to use browsers such as Google Chrome, Brave, and Firefox to accomplish this.
- You can open Google Chrome or any other browser you prefer.
- Visit Discord and sign in to your account.
- Now you can press Command + Option + J (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + J (Windows) to open the Developer Tools window.
- Select the Cursor symbol at the top left on the Developer Tools window. After that, select the component on the Discord website you wish to examine.
- Make use of Discord PTB version
The “Inspect” Element feature has been removed in the stable Version of the Discord Desktop app, but its version in beta as well as the Cannery remain in use using this function. Therefore, you can download the PTB or Discord’s Public Testing Beta version of Discord. You can also download the Cannery version, but it tends to be more susceptible to glitches and bugs.
- Visit the Discord download page.
- Scroll to the bottom and click the Download Public Test Build button.
- Select the platform you prefer to download and install Discord setup file. Discord set-up file.
- Download the file, then install Discord PTB version on your PC.
- You can also make use of Instec Elementy. Instec Elementy feature by simply pressing Command + Option + I (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + I (Windows).
