Today is
@discord
's 6th Birthday, but itโs been 9 years since I founded the company. After nearly a decade weโre just getting started. People are spending more and more time online and our goal is to make that time more fulfilling by creating space for people to find belonging.
@packyM
@mariogabriele
@discord
Thanks for all the perspectives everyone. We have no current plans to ship this internal concept. For now we're focused on protecting users from spam, scams and fraud. Web3 has lots of good but also lots of problems we need to work through at our scale. More soon.
Big news for developers today on Discord. Weโve opened up the developer preview for user installable apps as well as HTML5 experiences for apps. This dramatically changes whatโs possible to build on Discord.
I canโt wait to see what yโall come up with!
When we began building Discord in 2015 we had a hunch that one day people might use Discord to talk and hang out beyond just playing games together. Turns out, thatโs what you all thought too.
Today weโre making it official!
Welcome to
@discord
,
@gasappteam
! Gas is all about uplifting & empowering each other through positive affirmations โ something that I think the internet needs more of! Looking forward taking things to the next level together๐ฅ
More here:
What a year itโs been for
@discordapp
. To wrap it all up we just closed a new round of funding off the launch of our game store! Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far :)
I am so hype for Discord Stages rolling out today on Desktop, iOS, AND Android.
Now communities can easily host AMAs, Open mic night, debates, panels, and more.
new type of voice channel just dropped.
stage channels gives community servers better controls for audio-only events where some people can talk and others can listen as the audience.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us all these years, especially our Nitro subs. Your support allows us to focus on making Discord more useful for everyone. A big shout to the Discord team for the incredible work through such a hard year.
hey
we're updating our brand look. improved logo, font, colors. not too different: just a little friendlier.
Discord has become a place where people come to explore, grow, and belong. so we're updating our look to be just as welcoming:
PlayStation x Discord
Weโre gradually rolling out the ability to link your PlayStation Network account to share what games youโre playing. Learn how to connect your account here:
WE'VE HIT 3โฃ MILLION FOLLOWERS THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR GETTING US HERE!!! !111!!!!!!!
เผผ เผเบถ เทด เผเบถเผฝ just in time for our birthday next week ..okay now we gotta figure how to actually send our precious mascot into space
@svishnevskiy
and I began with a focus on gaming because games have been so important in our lives. It seems you all had something bigger in mind. We never planned to host karaoke nights, study groups, coding communities, or classrooms. Yet here we are doing just that.
Now we are making it all official and welcoming everyone to Discord with a new look & some exciting features coming soon like Stage Discovery, ticketed events, and threading!! And much to come for gaming from our partnerships w/ Sony to our early experiments with channel games.
2020 has been one hell of a year. Itโs been humbling too see how so many people have turned to
@discord
to spend time together. I never could have imagined the ways!
Well, Discord officially is three years old! It's been such an incredible honor to wake up every day and help bring the world closer together around games. Here's to year four!!
Thank you everyone for all the birthday love, it's actually insane how much support you all give. Check out how much Discord has grown with your help in this INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC.
For more bday stuff, read the recap:
This was a really fun conversation about my journey to build
@discord
sprinkled with lots of lessons from failure (and success) learned along the way.
Thanks for the great questions
@patrick_oshag
!
Truly one of my favorite founder conversations ever, with
@jasoncitron
, founder and CEO of
@discord
- art + scientific method
- building, hiring, and leading
- social networks
Discord could become one of the best companies in the world. Must listen!
Iโm thrilled to welcome the team from
@Ubiquity6
to
@Discord
!
Our original mission was to bring people together around games and theyโre still close to our hearts. I canโt wait to show you all how weโll make playing games with friends easier w/ the help of the Ubiquity6 folks!
Some of the most exciting and powerful AI experiences are being built on
@Discord
. Today weโre introducing even more ways to use AI with friends, including new AI experiments and an AI Incubator for developers ๐ค๐ฅ
Read more about it here ๐
a lot of you have been asking for a threads feature to help declutter your chats since the dawn of time, so here it is (out on all devices).
learn how threads came to be on the blog:
@ all Putt Party enjoyers โณ
Weโve dropped a major update to our mini-golf Activity.
Enjoy more levels, more power-ups, and a brand-new Tournament Mode in the โParadiseโ update. Just in time for our 8th birthday ๐๏ธ!
Learn more at
One of the things I'm most proud of at Discord is how we're fostering a remarkable place to work. I wrote some words to give a glimpse into how we do it
Ohhh boy I am so hype for this. Discord and Xbox voice chat. Now even more of your friends can play together! (Or you can stop with the ridiculous two headphones setup).
Discord Voice is coming to
@Xbox
. Hang out with Discord friends on voice chat while playing console games.
Personal, cozy, cross-platform voice chat is gradually rolling out now (Xbox Insiders get early access!):
Iโm really excited to welcome the
@sentropy
team to
@Discord
! T&S has always been a priority for Discord and central to who we are as a company. As we grow and scale, we will continue to invest in T&S. Weโre thrilled to have the folks at Sentropy join us to make Discord safer.
Iโm thrilled to share that Sentropy is joining Discord to continue the fight against hate & abuse online! In
@jasoncitron
&
@svishnevskiy
, we recognized a shared vision of what the future could be & are excited to make that future together. Learn more:
๐ Personal Update ๐
After 6+ years at
@Twitter
, Iโm excited to announce that I'm joining
@Discord
to lead Corporate Development and accelerate the work of reimagining a place for belonging, conversation, and communities ๐
weโve made discord even more powerful with multistream desktop improvements!
๐โ๐จ watch multiple streams in servers + group DMs
๐โ๐จ switch between input/output without leaving the call
๐โ๐จ close dormant video screens of non-streamers
Coming up today!
@Discord
CEO
@jasoncitron
โ talks about the future of the massive chat app after turning down that $12b offer from Microsoft.
@BloombergTV
2pPT
VALORANT x Discord
Rep your favorite
@VALORANT
Agents with our all-new collection of Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects, now available in the Shop. Keep an eye on the clock, because the Buy Phase for these ends May 7th.
Itโs NEW FEATURE time!
Discord just got more open, more customizable, and more fun to hang out on with friends! I hope yโall love it.
Check it out ๐
We're building Discord to be the best place for friends and communities to hang out together online. That's why we're announcing a ton of new functionality: Activities, a new Nitro tier, a directory for searching apps, and more:
our first and only merch pop-up store of the year is now open 'til we run out of stuff
grab some sleek exclusives, and yes a limited amount of Wumpus plushies are back:
Spotify is now available on Discord!
Connect your Spotify account so you can show everyone how cool your music selection is. Spotify Premium members can even listen along to each others sessions.
Refresh your app for the green goodness and more updates.
happy 20th birthday to GBA, which made history as the first handheld gaming console you could watch Shrek 2 on..
anyone wanna tell me their all-time favorite GBA games
Grab your
@Xbox
controllers๐ฎ!!
@svishnevskiy
and I started
@discord
as a way for friends to talk and hang out while playing their favorite games and as of today Xbox users can be part of the fun!
Time for something a little different to help game developers build their businesses: devs can now setup a shop inside their server! Wish I had these tools when I was still making games. Hope everyone likes them :)
๐New product juice!๐
Community servers can now create ~~~Forum Channels~~~ so members can easily start discussions on topics.
Q&A? Yup! Show and tell? Yup. LFG Channels? Yup. And AutoMod works with it too.
Really amazing work by our team. Can't wait to see how ya'll use it
Presenting a brand new feature with old school energy: Forum Channels.
Give your community a place to get ~Into It~ about topics without talking over anybody else.
More info:
Computer science opened up a world of opportunity for me. Every student should have the chance to learn one of our generationโs superpowers. Even if itโs just to make video games :)
You can help K-12 students across America have more oppty via
@codeorg
This past week we've had a lot of people ask us how to use Discord to set up a real-time classroom online, so we made a handy dandy how-to guide. We hope it helps!
welcome educators new to Discord ๐
you can now create your own pre-organized classroom space with one single click.
we wrote up some words on how to best use Discord with your students:
sorry @/everyone unfortunately we're experiencing some issues with launching the merch store.
tbd on date, but weโre working on getting the store up sometime soon. thanks for not yelling at me (ยดโ`)b
releasing discord sound packs for a limited time only. restart your desktop clients and go to settings -> notifications to replace your pings & rings with sounds by:
โต๏ธ lil yachty
๐ณ chaos
๐ด my uncle
congratulations! your @ mentions tab evolved into inbox.
you can now:
๐จ mark messages as read from one unified tab
๐จ adjust your channel + server mute preferences on the fly
๐จ have no good excuse to "did you see my ping?"
happy training~
Excited to join
@EricNewcomer
and friends on stage tomorrow to talk all things Discord with
@nabeel
! They're doing some really exciting things with the Sidechannel server.
Come check it out if you're a member.
My favorite part is when someone mentions what they think is an obscure game and inevitably someone else has both heard of it and thinks itโs awesome. Instant friendship.
when we hire new people at discord we ask them the following questions:
- what are you currently playing
- what is your favorite game of all time
- what's your favorite snack
how would you respond to this?
Here's an awesome way to support
@museumofplay
and their mission: Bidding on this
@discord
bundle in their silent auction. Get two years of Nitro for 10 people and a customized sticker pack and emoji set made just for you!
We listened to feedback and made *a lot* of improvements to our iOS app over the past year.
Weโre committed to keeping your mobile experience, both iOS and Android, equal to desktop as we enter the new year and beyond.
Announcing the first Discord Community Hack Week. Flex your mind and make Discord related art, bots, stories, music, or emoji while competing for exclusive prizes in the span of one week
Official server:
Read more:
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
In case you missed it - weโre celebrating at the Game Developers Conference this week by opening up a developer preview for Discord Activities.
Now anyone can build multiplayer games that start instantly inside Discord. Cant wait to see what yโall make!