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Discord – THE place for hanging out online in 2024
This free text, voice and video chat app was initially very popular among gamers, and today it is used by many communities for different purposes, such as study groups.
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Written by:
Katarina Peroković Dujmović
Discord is an application for text, voice and video conversations, which can also be used on Internet browsers. According to the description on the website Discord, it is much more than that – a place where the world hangs out and where everyone can find community. Since its founders, Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy, have been fans of video games since childhood, they started it so that they could simultaneously play games and communicate with the friends they made while playing. They wanted to have a tool that was better than the existing ones, and that would at the same time encourage conversation, form memories and build a sense of community.
Since its beginnings in 2015, Discord has reached 150 million active users per month and 19 million active servers per week.
What are servers and how to use Discord?
Servers are online places for clubs / communities or for groups of friends on Discord, and you enter them with an invitation. The servers are organized into channels dealing with certain topics, in which you can share content.
Discord can make it easier for us to communicate with friends or communities that we socialize with live (e.g. study groups, course participants or colleagues at work), and it can do the same for groups that don’t know each other before but have met, for example, by playing video games. It can be used for video calls like Skype or for discussions like Reddit.
