44 Facts About Discord

Concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform.

The name Discord was chosen because it "sounds cool and has to do with talking", was easy to say, spell, remember, and was available for trademark and website.

Discord became widely used by esports and LAN tournament gamers.

Discord benefited from relationships with Twitch streamers and subreddit communities for Diablo and World of Warcraft.

In January 2016, Discord raised an additional $20 million in funding including an investment from WarnerMedia .

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In March 2020, Discord changed its motto from "Chat for Gamers" to "Chat for Communities and Friends", and introduced server templates.

Discord announced it had received an additional $100 million in investments to help with these changes.

In March 2021, Discord announced it had hired its first finance chief, former head of finance for Pinterest Tomasz Marcinkowski.

Discord doubled its monthly user base to about 140 million in 2020.

In May 2021, Discord rebranded its game controller-shaped logo "Clyde" in celebration of its sixth anniversary.

Discord changed the color palette of its branding and user interfaces, making it much more saturated, to be more "bold and playful".

In July 2021, Discord acquired Sentropy, a company that specialized in using artificial intelligence systems to monitor online networks for abusive messages to highlight problematic users, and provide recommendations to users for the means to block such messages or users.

Two weeks later, Discord partnered with YouTube to test a "Watch Together" feature, which allows Discord users to watch YouTube videos together.

Discord is built to create and manage private and public communities.

Discord communities are organized into discrete collections of channels called servers.

Discord launched Stage Channels in May 2021, a feature similar to Clubhouse which allows for live, moderated channels, for audio talks, discussions, and other uses, which can further be potentially gated to only invited or ticketed users.

In September 2022, Discord launched Forum Channels, which gives the ability provide a space for organized discussions within a channel.

Direct messages in Discord allow users to send messages, share files, live stream their screen, and call others privately outside of servers.

Discord allows users to connect various external platforms to their account, including Steam, Reddit, Twitch, Twitter, Spotify, Xbox, PlayStation, and YouTube, among others.

In June 2021, Discord added a feature that allows all users to add an about me section to their profile, as well as a custom colored banner at the top of their profile.

Subscribers for Discord Nitro have the added ability to upload a static or animated image as their banner instead of a solid color.

Also in March 2019, Discord removed the digital storefront, instead choosing to focus on the Nitro subscription and having direct sales be done through developer's own servers.

In September 2019, Discord announced that it was ending its free game service in October 2019 as they found too few people were playing the games offered.

In December 2017, Discord added a software development kit that allows developers to integrate their games with the service, called "rich presence".

Documentation for the Discord API is hosted on GitHub and formatted to be displayed on their website.

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Some exist nonetheless; BetterDiscord is an unofficial open source modification.

BetterDiscord has generally been well-received, though PC Gamer has said it is prone to crashing and exhibiting bugs.

Discord is a persistent group chat software, based on an eventually consistent database architecture.

Discord uses the metaphors of servers and channels similar to Internet Relay Chat even though these servers do not map to traditional hardware or virtual servers.

Discord uses the Opus audio format, which is low latency and designed to compress speech.

In July 2020, Discord added noise suppression into its mobile app using the Krisp audio-filtering technology.

In June 2019, Discord introduced Server Boosts, a way to benefit specific servers by purchasing a "boost" for it, with enough boosts granting various benefits for the users in that particular server.

Discord began testing digital stickers on its platform in October 2020 for users in Canada.

Discord observed that while the bulk of its servers are used for gaming-related purposes, a small number have been created by users for non-gaming activities, like stock trading, fantasy football, and other shared interest groups.

In 2021, Discord had at least 350 million registered users across its web and mobile platforms.

Discord has had problems with hostile behavior and abuse within chats, with some communities of chat servers being "raided" by other communities.

Discord has stated that it has plans to implement changes that would "rid the platform of the issue".

Discord gained popularity with the alt-right due to the pseudonymity and privacy offered by Discord's service.

Discord responded by closing servers that supported the alt-right and far-right, and banning users who had participated.

Discord has worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify hateful groups using Discord and ban those groups from the service.

In March 2019, the media collective Unicorn Riot published the contents of a Discord server used by several members of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa who were members of the United States Armed Forces.

Discord told the press that the server was deleted by moderators shortly after the shooting.

In July 2018, Discord updated its terms of service to ban drawn pornography with underage subjects.

One day later, Discord allowed another server to be created and began assisting with moderation on it.