Discord
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An integrated platform for text and voice communications. Offers tailored channels for different topics, customizable moderation tools, low latency for fluency, and managed user roles for optimal community facilitation.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Epic Games Store
- Flathub
- Electron
- Playstation
- Xbox
Features
Discord News & Activities
Highlights All activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about DiscordDiscord adds Orbs currency for earning badges and Nitro via sponsored Quests
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- Fla published news article about DiscordDiscord introduces Nameplates and adds exciting animations to usernames
Discord has rolled out Nameplates, a new customization feature visible to all users, with discounts...
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Recent activities
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- xylopire thinks Custom Smileys is a important feature of Discord
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What is Discord?
Discord Videos
Discord information
AlternativeTo Categories
Social & Communications, Security & Privacy, Gaming Software, Remote Work & Education, Photos & Graphics, OS & UtilitiesApple AppStore
- Updated Jun 16, 2025
- 4.71 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Discord is a great place to make communities and grow communication with others around them, but there comes a time when a company needs to listen & get their act together in hand when things get serious. It's been one heck of 2020-2021 (in a bad way). Even though I rate this 4 stars for having everything original, I am still disappointed in their lack of support to help get a ban reissued due to a self-promotion bot "Server Scam". It was a HUGE fatal & accidental click that turned to the worst back in May. Idk why this is a thing, but something needs to get done with these advertising bots that randomly appear in my dm's and provide no information on what servers thereon. It sucks and it stinks. All of this leading to getting my phone number whitelisted & gmail whitelisted too. I still TO THIS DAY disagree with the whole blocking phone number thing, I can get from the email system, but the phone number has nothing to do with anything. This limits me from having to join specific servers that have a system level to an extreme point ((meaning to verify and phone number in order to get in)) In my opinion, it's stupid and pathetic to have a server do that. I rate the app a 4 star, but their support is a middle of 2 & 3 or just flat out 0 the way how they handle accounts. ONE screw up, and you're done for. I recommend to everyone that is just starting to use Discord to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL & AWARE of what is going on. But I'll give it this, their newest feature release regards of the Banner Profile & Stickers is extremely well done and would love to see more features adding to their $9.99 Subscription on Discord Nitro. They're even adding an Integration Feature where you can identify yourself as someone completely different on this specific server which I really love that type of concept & to see happen. I'll give it that extra star because of their newest features that there revealing out to the public and making the application extremely fast and quick, with no lag and glitch.
The privacy policy of this service is atrocious. Not only does the company own your password, e-mail and the contents of every message you send, it also lays claim to the ownership of your sphincter. Furthermore, the Discord app demands to know EVERY program your computer is running!
Why?
So they can give a cute little status update saying "X is play Y game"? More likely they are doing analytics and datamining. They reserve the right to sell your data and the blood of your firstborn at their discretion. Even worse, your porn browsing habits and your accompanying personally identifying information they scoop up is never deleted. So if the company ever folds, they can just sell it for a mint and the next company will have more info about you than you do.
This is particularly alarming as the CEO of this company has a history of doing exactly the aforesaid.
In conclusion, if you use Discord you are a sucker and every company with an analytics contract, and therefore every employee of said company, will know you spend an unhealthy amount of time watching Japanese cartoons about little girls, waste your money on erotic VN's, and that you still don't know how to get past the sadpanda on exhentai despite trying since you were a teenager because you aren't particularly bright, which is why you're using discord after all.
Laughed with your lovely review. What alternatives do you recommend?
He's dead right. Try riot.im
self-hosted alternatives to Discord include Mattermost and Mumble.
Well you can try out guilded but you cant self host servers
Well. This is the point. Discord want you to communicate with friends and play games together. It's about building communities.
You can block the status updating process and no one, except Discord CEO mb, will see your activity.
Try Revolt https://revolt.chat/ It's literally open-source Discord. Has less functionality, but that's what I like about it because it doesn't feel unnecessarily cluttered like Discord often does.
I haven't explored it thoroughly though.
revolt seemed good but sadly they don't want to implement federation, meaning that you can only communicate with the people on the instance you're using. You can't self host your own instance and be able to send messages to people on other instances (https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/federation). Sadly there isn't yet a decentralized alternative to discord with the same features :(
@Fire_Leviathan Yes there is a decentralized alternative to Discord, it has been around for sometime now. It's Element (on the matrix network) formerly riot.im.
exhentai? wow...
try matrix protocol clients? they getting better
+1 for matrix
as time goes this app becomes more worse.
discord used to be chill and cozy platform, but not anymore now. its rotting slowly, ads and bullshits filled it. the community is shitty now, i miss the old days. it used to be decent back in 2020, but in 2025? nah. i also dont like its paid system for important features. discord is also both privacy and security concern.
recently i switched to matrix protocol clients and feels much better. matrix.org is not perfect but its improving
Discord is neat from a user perspective, in that it has channels, forums, threads, and servers. The convenience I can settle with.
Two major flaws in my opinion.
Some other general issues worth mentioning:
Discord will keep getting worse and worse, and eventually, it's gonna lose users. Which sucks because it had a chance to be an actually decent platform. I will then have to turn to
Revolt at some point.
The fact that it works for me and is not horrible in terms of convenience is why I didn't give this 1 star (despite the major privacy caveat).
It lives up to its name.
right the community these days, no more cozy moments
Overall good app to communicate with friends. Larger servers meant for communities are often poorly moderated with scam bots and other unsavory characters present.