How Is Discord Gaining Popularity

Here’s an overview of how the service works and what it takes to get started.

Now Discord is reorienting from gamers to a mass audience, the site has been redesigned, the number of users is growing rapidly. Its audience has grown by more than half compared to last year and amounted to about 100 million monthly active users - this is about a third of the audience of Twitter or Snapchat

Users have been making money on Discord for a long time. For example, the creator of the chat for players in Ultimate Team, FIFA and other games offers a paid subscription to his channel, where for $ 13.99 per month he shares the secrets of passing, etc. But the creators of Discord do not get a cent of this money.

What is Discord?

Founded in 2015, Discord started out with a heavy focus on gaming. Its creators wanted a simple way to converse while playing desktop games through an app that wouldn’t eat up a lot of computing resources and slow down their performance. 

Discord is developed to replace the other VoIP programs that gamers usually use to chat while playing games — especially online multiplayer games. It lets you send direct messages to others and even chat in large groups, making it suitable for multiplayer games. The main source of Discord income is the premium Nitro service for $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year. It gives such things as an expanded set of emojis, animated avatars, and an increase in the size of uploaded files. In a word, the things are pleasant, but you can do without them.

Advantages of Discord

Discord offers a beautiful Slack-like interface with rich text support including images, GIFs, videos, and files. Moreover, the software is as easy to set up and use as any other VoIP app in the market, and if you’ve used Slack, then you’ll find yourself at home. However, Discord offers more customization tools for its users, and the fact that it is not positioned as an enterprise software gives the app an aura more akin to that of a bar or cocktail lounge than a conference room. 

Create/join servers

Discord allows you to create or join a server. A server on Discord is like a community of like-minded gamers having common interests to follow and talk about. For example, a public server of “Counter-Strike” attracts people interested in playing Counter-Strike.

You can create your own server if you wish to have a private community. After your server is created, you can invite your friends by sharing the server’s invite code. In the same way, you can join other servers, i.e., using the server’s invite code you wish to connect.

From the right panel of your server’s dashboard, you can view the number of online users in your server. And you can also view a person’s profile and mute, deafen, or mention him in the conversation. Moreover, you can view/set roles and permissions of any person.

Security features

Discord app auto-encrypts chats and other data, and even protects your IP address, unlike major VoIP solutions. Its backend server runs with DDoS protection and features automatic failover mechanism which works to upstart the app in case of server issues. Also, in case of a server failure, Discord will auto-switch to a new server to prevent data loss.

That’s not all. The app packs in lots of privacy and security features. In the server's settings, if you have permissions, you can set anyone’s and everyone’s roles and permissions.

Discord is built for the 21st century gamers — bringing a game of functionalities in one app. Unlike the tedious chat interfaces, Discord helps to manage conversations in servers and channels along with numerous customization options to suit your needs.

And if you’re a gamer and you haven’t tried out Discord yet, then there’s no reason to wait anymore. 

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