ID Decoder

Every Discord ID has the moment it was created encoded inside it. Paste a user, server, channel or message ID to see exactly when it was made and how old it is.

Paste an ID

Any Discord ID works: user, server, channel, message or role.

How do I find an ID?

Turn on Developer Mode in Discord under Settings → Advanced. Then right-click any user, server, channel or message and choose “Copy ID”.

What it means

Read directly out of the number. Nothing is looked up or sent anywhere.

Paste an ID to see exactly when it was created.

For a user ID this is the moment the account was made, which is the quickest way to spot a throwaway alt. For a server ID it is when the server was created.

What a Discord ID actually is

Every ID Discord issues is a snowflake: a 64-bit number with the creation time built into it. The top 42 bits are the number of milliseconds since the Discord epoch, 1 January 2015. Shift those bits down, add the epoch, and you have the exact instant the account, server, channel or message was created — no API call, no lookup, nothing sent anywhere.

That is what this page does, entirely in your browser. It cannot tell you a username or a server name, because none of that is in the number. It can only tell you when.

Why it is useful

Account age is the single most practical signal in moderation. A member who joined and immediately started posting links, whose account was created four days ago, is a different problem from one whose account is six years old. Checking the ID takes seconds and needs no bot.

It also settles arguments about how old a server is. We use the same decoding on discords.ai listings, because a community's real age is in its server ID — not the date it happened to get listed here.

Finding an ID

Enable Developer Mode under Settings → Advanced in Discord, then right-click anything and choose “Copy ID”. On mobile, long-press instead.