Discord
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
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Epic Games Store
- Flathub
- Electron
- Playstation
- Xbox
Features
- VoiP Calls
- Screen Sharing
- Video Calling
- Multi Channel
- Text chat
- Bots
- Voice Chat
- Instant Messaging
- Multiple Servers
- Push to talk
- Public groups chat
- Stickers
- Custom Smileys
- Text to Speech
- Noise Reduction
- Graphical User Interface
- Camera capturing
- Reactions
- Group Voice Chat
- Direct Messaging
- Dark Mode
- Share content
- Voice channels
- Custom roles
- Channel manager
- Two-factor Authentication
- Desktop Sharing
- Syntax Highlighting
- Support for @mentions
- No Coding Required
- Support for MarkDown
- Interface Overlay
- Game Chat
- Role-based security access
- Gaming-focused
- Permission system
- Low memory usage
- Integrated Chat
- Rich Presence
- Encrypted Chat
- Low Latency
- Community-based
- Team Messaging
- In-app server browser
- In-Game Overlay
- Single Sign-On
- Electron based
- Persistent Chat
- Integrated File Sharing
- Low bandwidth usage
- Webcam overlays
- Development API
- Positional audio
- Youtube Gaming Integration
Discord News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Discord
Discord launches end-to-end encryption for audio and video callsDiscord has introduced end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls, significantly boosti...
- Fla published news article about Discord
Discord introduces resizable picture-in-picture on desktopDiscord has rolled out an update allowing users to resize the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) window on de...
- Fla published news article about Discord
Discord introduces Activities feature to text chatsDiscord has launched a new Activities feature that allows users to play games and listen to music d...
Recent activities
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- melanai reviewed Discord
Overall good app to communicate with friends. Larger servers meant for communities are often poorly moderated with scam bots and other unsavory characters present.
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Discord information
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- Updated Sep 23, 2024
- 4.71 avg rating
What is Discord?
Discord is a communication platform used by various communities. It provides a space for regular interaction and allows private discussions. Discord servers are organized into topic-focused channels for easy collaboration and conversation. It offers voice channels for effortless communication and uses low latency voice and video technology.
Discord supports text, voice, and video communication. Users can video greet, live-stream games, host group screen shares, and create custom emojis from images. Users can share a range of content and pin preferred items for easy access.
Discord suits small groups and large fandoms. It offers customizable moderation tools and permission levels for user-specific group organization. Users can assign moderator roles, grant special members access to private channels, and manage their community effectively.
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.
because its simple to use, has a great looking UI and all my friends use it so I can easily chat with them them there.
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?
Reply written Jun 16, 2018
He's dead right. Try riot.im
Reply written Jun 27, 2018
self-hosted alternatives to Discord include Mattermost and Mumble.
Reply written Jan 7, 2019
Well you can try out guilded but you cant self host servers
Reply written Mar 30, 2021
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.
Reply written Mar 3, 2022
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.
Reply written Mar 29, 2022
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 :(
Reply written Jun 24, 2022
@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.
Reply written Oct 12, 2022
exhentai? wow...
Reply written Oct 20, 2023
Overall good app to communicate with friends. Larger servers meant for communities are often poorly moderated with scam bots and other unsavory characters present.
Even my Trash doens't want it!
I don't trust Discord Their are pedophiles on discord don't let your kids use discord.
Discord spyware watchdog https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord