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Engineering & Developers

Announcing Discord’s Social SDK, Helping Power Your Game’s Social Experiences

Today, we’re announcing our new Social SDK that empowers game developers of all sizes to implement Discord-powered features directly in their games, helping players easily talk, connect and enhance their social experiences.

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Engineering & Developers
Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF
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Engineering & Developers
Supercharging Discord Mobile: Our Journey to a Faster App
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Discord HQ
Leveling Up Black Voices in Gaming
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December Staff Picks: It’s Giving Games

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Product & Features
Discord Update: December 19, 2024 Changelog
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Product & Features
Gift Ideas for the Dedicated Discord User in Your Life
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How to Discord
How to Stream Games and Applications to Discord from Desktop or Mobile
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Engineering & Developers
How Discord Seamlessly Upgraded Millions of Users to 64-Bit Architecture
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: December 5, 2024
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Discord HQ
Find Wumpus in the WEBTOON Universes & Be Rewarded with a Nitro Trial
Clyde, a robot, is showing off the Discord mobile app. He looks surprised!
Engineering & Developers
Measuring Product Impact Without A/B Testing: How Discord Used the Synthetic Control Method for Voice Messages
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How to Discord
How to Navigate Discord Using Only Your Keyboard
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How to Discord
How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts on Discord & Create Custom Keybinds
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Product & Features
Discord Update: November 18, 2024 Changelog
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Product & Features
Celebrate Arcane’s Second Season with a new Shop Collection
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: November 1, 2024
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How to Discord
How to Play Games, Listen to Music, and Improve Your Discord Server with Apps & Activities
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Discord HQ
October Staff Picks: Monster Season
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Product & Features
Set Out for a Discord Adventure! Check Out Our Roll20 Adventure & D&D Shop Collection
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Policy & Safety
Mental Health & Discord: Promoting Well-Being All Year Long
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Discord HQ
This Halloween, Treat a Friend to Nitro & Get a Haunting Avatar Decoration!
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Discord HQ
Checkpoint Reached: New Updates on our Quest to Connect More Game Developers with Players
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: October 1, 2024
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Discord HQ
September Staff Picks: Mid-Travel Pitstop
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Engineering & Developers
Come Build Where the World Plays
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Product & Features
Discord Update: September 26, 2024 Changelog
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Product & Features
Discover More Ways to Play with Apps – Now Anywhere on Discord!
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Discord HQ
Discord’s Headed to Tokyo! See What We’re Doing at TGS 2024
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Engineering & Developers
How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
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Engineering & Developers
Learning From Structure: Discord’s Entity-Relationship Embeddings
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How to Discord
How to Make Your Discord Messages Bold, Italic, Underlined & Tons More
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Discord HQ
Defeat Discord on Chess.com, Win a Month of Nitro!
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: August 30, 2024
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Product & Features
Discord Update: August 28, 2024 Changelog
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Discord HQ
August’s Staff Picks: Six Months of Recommendations!
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Product & Features
Queue Up Your Playlists on Discord with the Amazon Music Listening Party Activity!
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: August 1, 2024
Today, we’re sharing two new ways we’re making your Discord experience on Xbox even better: see what your Discord friends are up to and watch what your friends are streaming, directly from your Xbox console.
Product & Features
Now Available: See What’s Happening on Discord, Directly from your Xbox console
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Discord HQ
July’s Staff Picks: Playin’ and Spectatin’
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Product & Features
Discord Update: July 26, 2024 Changelog
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Discord HQ
Find Your Squad and Lock In: Get Hyped for VALORANT Champions with a Quest & Upcoming Shop Items!
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Community
Embracing Disability Pride Month: Celebrating and Promoting Accessibility
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Discord HQ
Join Nitro & Get 1 Month Free During our Summer Promo
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Product & Features
WHO LIVES ON YOUR PROFILE FOR ALL TO SEE? 🎶 SPONGEBOB, IN THE SHOP!
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Engineering & Developers
How Discord Uses Open-Source Tools for Scalable Data Orchestration & Transformation
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: July 1, 2024
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Discord HQ
June's Staff Picks: Summertime Game Time
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Community
How Discord Celebrated Pride Month 2024
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How to Discord
How to Talk with Friends in Crossplay Games Using Discord
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Product & Features
Discord Update: June 20, 2024 Changelog
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How to Discord
Pass It Along: How to Share the Latest Nitro Perks with Your Friends
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Product & Features
Feast Your Monit-eyes on Today's Exciting Developer Updates!
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Discord HQ
May’s Staff Picks: What Discord Plays as Summer Approaches
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Community
How Discord Celebrated AANHPI Heritage Month 2024
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: May 2024
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Community
How Hero Journey Club Uses Games for Mental Health Care and Connection
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Product & Features
Refining Discord’s Mobile Experience With Your Feedback
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Product & Features
Discord Update: May 13, 2024 Changelog
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Discord HQ
It’s our 9th Birthday!! Look What We Made to Celebrate (You Can Win It)!
Eight friends, represented by Discord characters, enjoying a group video call on Discord together. Some are playing games and reading books together, while others are watching movies and playing musical instruments. Everyone is having fun, smiling while talking away!
Engineering & Developers
From Blocky to Brilliant: Improving Video Quality on Discord Go Live on AMD GPUs
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: April 2024
Engineering & Developers
Developing Rapidly with Generative AI
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Product & Features
Discord Update: April 3, 2024 Changelog
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Discord HQ
Skill Issue? Not after obtaining your Discord-exclusive set for THE FINALS
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Discord HQ
How Discord Celebrated Women’s History Month 2024
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Engineering & Developers
Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization
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Engineering & Developers
It’s time to Pitch Your Discord Apps!!
Policy & Safety
Important Policy Updates
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Engineering & Developers
Headed to GDC 2024? Check Out the Latest News for Discord Game Devs
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Discord HQ
Our Quest to Support Game Developers on Discord
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Engineering & Developers
How It All Goes Live: An Overview of Discord’s Streaming Technology
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Engineering & Developers
How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments
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Policy & Safety
How We're Evolving Our Safety Architecture For The Digital Services Act
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Engineering & Developers
Discord Developers, Here’s to 2023 and What’s to Come!
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How to Discord
5 Holiday Gift Ideas for your Discord Friends
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Product & Features
Improving Our Mobile Experience
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Engineering & Developers
The DDevs Server Celebrates 250k Members!
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How to Discord
Complete Your Look in the Shop, Now Open to All
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How to Discord
Apps on Discord to Uplevel Your Competitive Gaming Skills
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Discord HQ
@Everyone’s a Member: Get Two Weeks of Nitro on Us
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Engineering & Developers
Congrats to the Discord App Pitches 2023 Finalists!
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How to Discord
9 Tips for Hanging Out on Discord
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How to Discord
Scariest Games to Play and Stream with Your Friends on Discord
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Engineering & Developers
Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
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Discord HQ
How We’re Making Discord the Best Place to Hang Out and Have Fun with Your Friends
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Engineering & Developers
Developers on Discord: Enjoy Premium App Subscriptions and more!
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