THENEWSTACK - When Discord migrated its messages cluster from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, it reduced message latencies from 200 milliseconds to 5 milliseconds. To improve efficiency and reduce latencies, Discord engineers built a data service library to streamline queries going to and from the database. This would limit the number of requests putting stress on the database infrastructure. They also created a "Superdisk" made of persistent disks and NVMe SSDs to optimize their hardware for both speed and efficiency.
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How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages to ScyllaDB
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Discord Acquires Gas, a Compliments-based Social Media App for Teens
TECH CRUNCH - Discord announced its acquisition of Gas, an app popular among teens for its positive spin on social media. On Gas, users sign up with their school, add friends, and answer polls about their classmates that are intended to boost users' confidence. Gas reached 7.4M installs and ~$7M in consumer spending since its launch in the summer of 2022. Gas will continue as its standalone app, and the Gas team will be joining Discord to help the efforts grow across new and core audiences.
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Discord Opens up Paid Subscriptions So Servers Can Sell Premium Perks
TECH CRUNCH - Discord will now allow more servers to offer paid memberships in exchange for special server-specific perks. Anyone who runs a server can create customized membership tiers that offer special roles and other benefits, like early access to merch drops or exclusive content. To be eligible, server owners must be located in the U.S. (for now, at least) and be in good standing on the platform with no recent violations of its platform policies and community guidelines. Users can set subscriptions to be anywhere from $2.99 to $199.99 and decide what kind of perks to associate with the tiers they come up with. Discord's cut of subscription revenue is 10%.
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Social Networks Are Going Much Smaller
SLATE - Some experts and pundits are saying the departure of ~1M people from Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover marks the death of social networks. It is not so much the death of age as an evolution in social networks - a shift towards community-focused and - designed spaces like Mastodon, Discord, and Twitch. While social media was for 15 years or so focused on bringing messages to as many people as possible at one time, it is heading toward a future in which it's about reaching a much smaller group of people with whom they already share interests, beliefs, or affinity.
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Discord Says Android Users Won't Be Left Hanging Anymore
TECH CRUNCH - Discord is improving the app's experience for Android, which has historically lagged behind the iPhone version of Discord. Discord says the app is now "rebuilt from the ground up" using React Native, a developer framework for making apps that work uniformly across platforms.
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Discord's New Xbox Integration Will Let Users Send Voice Chats to Console
TECH CRUNCH - Xbox is adding support for Discord voice chat, bringing the app to Microsoft's gaming console, albeit in a sort of roundabout way. The new integration is available right away for anyone in the Xbox Insiders beta program, which offers early access to stuff Microsoft wants to test drive before a full rollout.
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Discord Gives Servers a Way to Intercept Spam and Harmful Content
TECH CRUNCH - Discord is introducing a native way for servers to preemptively detect and block harmful messages and spam. The tool, called AutoMod, will allow anyone who moderates one of Discord's server-based communities to create a custom list of words that the new bot can scan for and intercept. Discord also announced that it will expand premium memberships, a Patreon-like way for active community members to pay for perks and additional server access.
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Discord Is Giving Voice Channels Their Text-based Chat Rooms
TECH CRUNCH - Discord is giving its voice channels text-based chat. The company rolled out text chat for the platform's voice-based chat rooms, adding a way for anyone hanging out loud to easily share links and other text without having to channel hop to go find it. Servers that haven't enabled community features will see text chat for voice pop up right off the bat, while community servers will need to opt in to the new feature.
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Discord Is Testing New Features
TECH CRUNCH - Discord will start testing a handful of new features in some of its biggest communities. The first new feature gives servers a forum-like channel as a hub for "more organized conversations." Discord will also test a new homepage-style feature that collects hot topics, offering a tl;dr-style snapshot of timely content that's relevant on that server at any given moment. New automated tools will bring some functionality communities to get with third-party mod tools in-house.
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TikTok Has a Discord Now
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok now has a Discord server. On TikTok's brand new Discord, users can chat with strangers. As of publication, there are only 400 people in the Discord, which is a "soft launch." There are five moderators from TikTok, which could pose a problem if the server continues to grow.
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Discord Is Working on Premium Memberships, Monetization Option for Creators
TECH CRUNCH - Discord is introducing a new way for creators to make money by offering community members access to paid, subscriber-only content. Discord communities will place part or all of their content through premium memberships behind a pay gate. Servers could remain mostly free and open with one premium paid channel for the most dedicated members, or an entire community could go premium, requiring payment for access.
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Discord Is Updating Its macOS App to Run Natively on M1
9TO5MAC - Discord is finally working on an update for its macOS app that brings full support to Macs with M1 chip and later. Although the update is not yet officially available to the public, it can be downloaded as a beta app for now.
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Discord CEO Backtracks Teased NFT Integration After User Outcry
MASHABLE - Jason Citron, founder and CEO of Discord, found himself furiously backpedalling after a tweet teasing a future in-app NFT integration sparked backlash from users. This initial hint at Discord's future plans was received very poorly by users - many of whom threatened to cancel their paid subscriptions over what they called a "pyramid scheme money laundering planet destroying evil."
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Discord's Hints About Crypto, NFTs Are Tearing Its Community Apart
KOTAKU - The CEO of Discord teased that the platform could potentially support cryptocurrency wallets. This has led many users to be nervous that their Nitro (a paid Discord service) subscriptions could be used to fund the scammy NFT ecosystem in the future. The teaser tweet caused massive opposition among Discord users, with many unsubscribing from the platform's premium service (or threatening to do so).
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Discord Raised $500M in Funding
CNBC - Discord has raised $500M in a new funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Discord is now valued at $15B. Earlier this year, Discord ended deal talks with Microsoft. It said it plans to expand the business as a standalone company focused on building the chat platform and making money from its user base that has grown quickly during the pandemic.
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