How to Hide Message Timestamps in Discord (Browser)
Last updated: 2026-07-12
Discord stamps every message and separator with times and dates — useful for logs, terrible for focus. If a server is your study group, your team, or your community while you work, the message times keep pulling you into "what did I miss and how long ago" arithmetic.
Why hide time on Discord at all?
Like Slack, Discord’s timestamps convert presence into pressure: the gap between "now" and the last message you saw reads as how far behind you are. Hiding times for the length of a work session keeps the conversation readable while removing the falling-behind meter. Combined with hiding the clock everywhere else, a focus session stops having a visible "how long have I been here" anywhere on screen.
This is the core of the anti-timer method: deep focus is partly defined by losing track of time, and you can’t lose track of something the interface shows you every few seconds.
Option 1 — the manual way (uBlock Origin, permanent)
If you already run uBlock Origin, you can hide Discord’s time elements permanently with cosmetic filters. Open the uBlock dashboard → My filters, paste the lines below, and save:
discord.com##time discord.com##[class*="timestamp"]
Two caveats. This hides times permanently — including when you actually want them (checking when something was posted). And site markup changes over time, so filters occasionally need updating when Discord ships a redesign.
Option 2 — the one-click way (session-based)
Now — Timeless Focus is a free Chrome extension built for exactly this, with one key difference from the manual route: it hides time per focus session, not forever. You start a session with a short breathing ritual, every clock and timestamp on the page disappears (on Discord and any other site you work on), and when you end the session everything comes back — plus you see how long you were actually gone and a presence score computed entirely on your device. Zero network requests, no account.
Discord wraps message times in time elements with timestamp classes; Now’s generic time/[class*="time"] rules plus its legacy .DiscordTimeStamp/.message-timestamp entries cover them in the browser version (extensions can’t modify the desktop app).
Which should you use?
Use uBlock filters if you never want to see Discord timestamps again and don’t mind maintaining a filter list. Use Now if you want time hidden only while you work, restored when you’re done, and you’d like the session reveal ("47 minutes passed while you were fully present") as feedback. They also combine fine.