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Discord also utilizes Twitters Snowflake algorithm for the ridiculous amount of messages that are sent in chats.[1]

Link doesn't work for me, I just get a partially-loaded page with an eternally-spinning spinner (FF65 on OSX).

Gotta go to https://discordapp.com/developers/docs and then click on the Reference link in the sidebar.

If you remove the trailing forward slash the link works fine.

Not only messages - EVERYTHING in Discord is identified by a snowflake - messages, users, channels, guilds (servers), bots/applications, ...