Discord is 'rebranding' to appeal to more than just gamers

guest · Jun 30, 2020

Discord is 'rebranding' to appeal to more than just gamers
Discord is no longer just a place for gamers to chat
June 30, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/85821-discord-about-more-than-gaming.html

Forward-looking: When Discord launched in May 2015, it did so under the guise of a communications app for gamers. In recent years, however, many people started using the app to chat about things other than video games. Now, the company is moving to embrace a wider range of users.

In a blog published earlier today, co-founders Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy said they have streamlined the new user onboard experience and added additional server templates to help newcomers get going. They’ve also increased video and voice capacity by 200 percent and squashed hundreds of bugs as part of their continued investment in performance and reliability.

While Discord isn’t rebranding in the traditional sense (by changing its name), the company is launching a new website and introducing a new tagline: Your place to talk.
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Usage of Discord and competing chat / collaboration platforms has skyrocketed in recent months as shelter-in-place orders stemming from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic forced millions to work remotely over the Internet.
As a result, Discord currently enjoys more than 100 million monthly active users who collectively rack up around four billion minutes of conversations each day across 6.7 million active servers.
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Discord: Your Place to Talk

But, over the past year, we’ve been asking you what really makes the magic of Discord. It turns out that, for a lot of you, it wasn’t just about video games anymore.
You wanted a place to have genuine conversations and spend quality time with people, whether catching up, learning something, or sharing ideas. A place where you and your world can truly belong.

Many of you told us that the biggest misconception you hear about Discord is that it’s “only for gaming,” but you feel Discord’s for “literally everyone” and “for anyone who likes to talk.”
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Today, we’re inviting the world in to reveal what we’ve been working on, all designed to make it easier for you to invite your communities and friends to your Discord home. And this is just the beginning.
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guest · Dec 16, 2020

Discord will be able to screen share from iOS and Android devices starting today
December 16, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/16/d...-from-ios-and-android-devices-starting-today/

The super popular chat app Discord is getting a much-requested feature starting today: mobile screen sharing.

As the name suggests, mobile screen sharing lets users capture and broadcast everything on their phone’s display and stream it to a group of friends. The company tells me they’ve been particularly focused on making it work well when there’s a lot of onscreen motion, allowing for things like game streaming or remote YouTube/TikTok viewing parties with high frame rates and minimal latency.
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Discord first picked up screen sharing abilities in 2017, rolling it out alongside video chat. Since then, sharing your screen has required a desktop or laptop; this update brings iOS and Android devices into the mix.
If the rollout goes as planned, all users should have it by end of day Thursday.
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