News & Reviews: Discord
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Sep 14, 2022
Facebook and Messenger recently announced the introduction of Community Chats, a feature that allows group organisers to create curated live Messenger chat groups similar to Discord. Through the feature, users can browse chats organised by announcements, topics, events and more instead of just relying on feed posts and comments.
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Sep 25, 2021
After the removal of both Groovy and Rythm bot, it seems that Discord is currently working on a new feature called Watch Together, which lets users watch YouTube videos together. With that being said, the new Watch Together feature might be a little more resource intensive because the feature will play both audio and video.
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Apr 01, 2021
How many companies are going to imitate Clubhouse's voice chat rooms? The answer is probably "a lot". Ever since the app became popular, we've seen companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Xiaomi all copying the concept. But they won't be the last, as more companies are set to follow suit.
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Mar 23, 2021
In this short announcement, it seems that multiple sources have reported that tech giant Microsoft is interested in acquiring Discord. Nothing is concrete yet, but the acquisition could go over $10 billion. Sources also reported that other companies are interested but Microsoft is the favourite here.
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Dec 15, 2020
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sure been busy these days. Last week, it accused Facebook of running a monopoly and demanded the sale of Instagram and WhatsApp. Now, the organisation has placed nine tech companies under investigation.
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Sep 02, 2020
Originally made for gamers, Discord is now an app that's not just used for chat, but also to build communities. It's not uncommon to see large communities where people constantly share their content, even more so if it's a gaming community. With that in mind, it would seem that Discord is developing a new screen sharing function for the Android app.
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Sep 10, 2019
Back when Samsung introduced its cross-platform feature that is coming soon on the Galaxy Note10 series, they have formally announced that their partnership with Discord which marks the first major mobile platform integration for the latter.
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