Discord - Talk, Chat & Hangout with Friends

Are you looking for a communication app that allows you to stay connected to all of your friends and communities? An app that allows you to communicate through text, voice, and video? Spoiler alert: Such an app exists, and it's entirely free to use.

With the Discord app, it's easy to stay in touch with friend groups, family members, clubs, teams, interest-related communities, online gaming clans, and more. Discord follows in the footsteps of popular group voice-chatting platforms like TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, except with Discord, you aren't limited to only voice chatting. Essentially, the app combines all of the features of the most popular messaging platforms into one.

"Discord is the perfect place to connect with friends and build community."

Product Features

Discord is separated into different servers. Each server typically represents a specific community or broad subject. You can create one of these servers yourself and use it for whatever purpose you like. For example, you might start one for fans of your favorite book series or sports team. Alternatively, you can join a pre-existing server to dive right into the conversation. Each Discord server is divided into topic-based channels. These channels can accommodate many users at a time; you and your friends or group members can use them to chat about the topic, hold meetings, collaborate on projects, or make casual small talk. In addition to the text-based channels, you can also start up voice channels, where you can share audio calls with whoever joins. Plus, you and your friends can even watch videos together on these voice channels. What could be better than laughing with your buddies while you watch a hilarious YouTube clip?

Discord isn't just for group conversations. If you need to discuss anything private or unrelated to the channel topics, you can always start a one-on-one chat using text, or you can hold low-latency voice or video calls. Whenever you want to spice up your text conversations a bit, you can add GIFs, emojis, and images to any private or group chats. Discord also features a unique screen-sharing function, with which you can watch your friends play video games or give someone a step-by-step tutorial.

"Discord provides several custom moderation tools to keep your channels running smoothly."

Group conversations on any virtual platform need to be moderated accordingly. All it takes is one troll to spoil a friendly, peaceful chat channel. Fortunately, when you set up a server, Discord provides several moderation tools for keeping everything under control. You can set custom permissions, split participants into groups and teams, create private channels, and