diff --git a/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js b/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js
--- a/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js
+++ b/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 import { specialRoles } from './special-roles.js';
 import {
   minimallyEncodeRawThreadInfo,
-  decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
+  deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
   minimallyEncodeThreadCurrentUserInfo,
 } from '../types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js';
 import type { ThreadRolePermissionsBlob } from '../types/thread-permission-types.js';
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@
 describe('decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo', () => {
   it('should correctly decode minimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo', () => {
     expect(
-      decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(
+      deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(
         minimallyEncodeRawThreadInfo(exampleRawThreadInfoA),
       ),
     ).toStrictEqual(expectedDecodedExampleRawThreadInfoA);
diff --git a/lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js b/lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js
--- a/lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js
+++ b/lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import { legacyUpdateRolesAndPermissions } from './legacy-update-roles-and-permissions.js';
 import {
-  decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
+  deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
   minimallyEncodeRawThreadInfo,
   type RawThreadInfo,
 } from '../../types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js';
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     const rawThreadInfo = threadStoreInfos[threadID];
 
     const decodedThreadInfo =
-      decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(rawThreadInfo);
+      deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(rawThreadInfo);
 
     decodedThreadStoreInfos[threadID] = decodedThreadInfo;
   }
diff --git a/lib/types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js b/lib/types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js
--- a/lib/types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js
+++ b/lib/types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
   }
 };
 
-const decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo = (
+const deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo = (
   minimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo: RawThreadInfo,
 ): LegacyRawThreadInfo => {
   if (minimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo.thick) {
@@ -292,5 +292,5 @@
   minimallyEncodeMemberInfo,
   decodeMinimallyEncodedMemberInfo,
   minimallyEncodeRawThreadInfo,
-  decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
+  deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
 };
diff --git a/lib/utils/thread-ops-utils.js b/lib/utils/thread-ops-utils.js
--- a/lib/utils/thread-ops-utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils/thread-ops-utils.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   RoleInfo,
 } from '../types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js';
 import {
-  decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
+  deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo,
   minimallyEncodeMemberInfo,
   minimallyEncodeRoleInfo,
   minimallyEncodeThreadCurrentUserInfo,
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 ): LegacyRawThreadInfo {
   const minimallyEncoded =
     convertClientDBThreadInfoToRawThreadInfo(clientDBThreadInfo);
-  return decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(minimallyEncoded);
+  return deprecatedDecodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(minimallyEncoded);
 }
 
 export {