You might have seen a trick on Discord where the little (edited) caption appears in the middle of a message instead of at the end. With a small hack involving the right-to-left embedding character (U+202B), the (edited) text can be moved to any location inside the message.

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Before you start, copy the “right-to-left embedding” character (U+202B) to your clipboard.

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With this method you write a placeholder message, and then replace it completely with a new message containing the (edited) text inside it all at once.

  1. Send a message with some random text (this text will be replaced entirely)
  2. Start editing the message you just created and delete all the text inside
  3. Type the text you want on the left of (edited).
  4. Type a space, then paste the character twice, and type another space.
  5. Type the text you want on the right of (edited).
  6. Save the message.

You can also start at step 3 instead, send the message, and then perform any edit on the message afterwards to add the (edited) text.

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This method works by adding (edited) to the end of an existing message, and then extra text to the right.

  1. Send a message containing the text you want on the left of (edited).
  2. Start editing the message you just created
  3. At the end of the message, type a space, then paste the character twice, and type another space.
  4. Type the text you want on the right of (edited).
  5. Save the message.

This post was adapted from bbaovanc/discord-tricks