As of 2024,[update] Discord has about 150 million monthly active users and 19 million weekly active servers.[10] It is primarily used bygamers, but the share of users interested in other topics is growing.[11] As of March 2024,[update] Discord is the30th most visited website in the world, and 22.98% of its traffic comes from the United States.[12][13] In March 2022, Discord employed 600 people globally.[14]
History
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Discord was conceived byJason Citron, who foundedOpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games,[15] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint toGREE in 2011 for $104 million,[16] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in 2012.[17] Its first product wasFates Forever, released in 2014, which Citron hoped would be the firstmultiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game on mobile platforms, but it was not commercially successful.[18]
According to Citron, during the development process, he noticed how difficult it was for his team to work out tactics in games likeFinal Fantasy XIV andLeague of Legends using availablevoice over IP (VoIP) software. This led to the development of a chat service with a focus onuser friendliness with minimal impact on performance.[18] The name "Discord" was chosen because it "sounds cool and has to do with talking", was easy to say, spell, remember, and was available for trademark and website. In addition, "Discord in the gaming community" was the problem he wished to solve.[19]
Discord was publicly released in May 2015 under thedomain name discordapp.com.[21] According to Citron, it made no moves to target a specific audience, but some gaming-relatedsubreddits quickly began to replace theirIRC links with Discord links.[22] Discord became widely used by esports and LAN tournament gamers. The company benefited from relationships withTwitch streamers and subreddit communities forDiablo andWorld of Warcraft.[23]
In January 2016, Discord raised an additional $20 million in funding, including an investment fromWarnerMedia (then TimeWarner).[24] WarnerMedia was acquired byAT&T in 2018 and WarnerMedia Investment Group shut down in 2019, selling its equity.[25][26]
In April 2018,Microsoft announced that it would provide Discord support forXbox Live users, allowing them to link their Discord and Xbox Live accounts so that they could connect with their Xbox Live friends list through Discord.[27]
In December 2018, Discord announced it had raised $150 million in funding at a $2 billion valuation. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP,Index Ventures, and Technology Opportunity Partners.[28]
Evolution
In June 2020, Discord announced it was shifting focus away from video gaming specifically to a more all-purpose communication and chat client for all functions, revealing its new slogan "Your place to talk", along with a revised website. Among other planned changes was to reduce the number of gaming in-jokes it used within the client, improving the user onboarding experience, and increasing server capacity and reliability. The company announced it had received an additional $100 million in investments to help with these changes.[29]
In March 2021, Discord announced it had hired its firstchief financial officer, former head of finance forPinterest Tomasz Marcinkowski. An inside source called this one of the first steps for the company toward aninitial public offering, though Citron had said earlier in the month that he was not considering taking the company public. Discord doubled its monthly user base to about 140 million in 2020.[30] The same month,Bloomberg News andThe Wall Street Journal reported that several companies were looking to purchase Discord, with Microsoft named as the likely lead buyer at a value estimated at $10 billion.[31][32] Discord ended talks with Microsoft, opting to stay independent.[33] It launched another round of investment in April 2021.[34] Among those investing in the company wasSony Interactive Entertainment, which said it intended to integrate some of Discord's services into thePlayStation Network by 2022.[35][36]
The old Discord wordmark (2015–2021)
In May 2021, Discord rebranded itsgame controller-shaped logo "Clyde" in celebration of its sixth anniversary.[37] It also made the color palette of its branding and user interfaces much more saturated, to be more "bold and playful", and changed its slogan from "your place to talk" to "imagine a place", believing that it would be easier to attach to additional taglines; these changes met with backlash and criticism from Discord users.[38]
In July 2021, Discord acquired Sentropy, an internet moderation company.[39]
Ahead of a funding round in August 2021, Discord had reported $130 million in 2020 revenue, triple that of 2019, and had an estimated valuation of $15 billion. According to Citron, the increased valuation was due to the shift away from "broadcast wide-open social media communication services to more small, intimate places", as well as increased usage during theCOVID-19 pandemic. Discord captured users who were leavingFacebook and other platforms due to privacy concerns.[40] Citron says they are still in talks with several potential buyers, including all major gaming console manufacturers.[40] From this, the company secured an additional $500 million in investments in September 2021.[41]
In September 2021,Google sentcease and desist notices to the developers of two of the most popular music bots used on Discord—Groovy andRythm—which were used on an estimated 36 million servers.[42] These bots allowed users to request and play songs in a voice channel, taking the songs fromYouTube ad-free. Two weeks later, Discord partnered with YouTube to test a "Watch Together" feature, which allows Discord users to watch YouTube videos together.[43]
Citron posted mockup images of Discord around the proposedWeb3 principles with integratedcryptocurrency andnon-fungible token support in November 2021, leading to criticism from its user base. Citron later said, "We [...] want to clarify we have no plans to ship it at this time."[44]
TheCNIL fined Discord €800,000 in November 2022 for violating theEuropean Union'sGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The violations CNIL found were that the application would continue to run in the background after it was closed and would not disconnect the user from avoice chat, as well as allowing users to create passwords of only six characters.[45]
Recent
In early 2023, Discord wasused to publish classified United States documents in one of the most significant intelligence leaks in recent history. The documents, distributed on aMinecraft Discord server as photos, detailed the state of theRusso-Ukrainian war, surveillance of allied and adversarial nations, and cracks in alliances with nations aligned with the United States.[46][47][48]
In August 2023, Discord cut 4% of its staff, laying off 40 employees as part of a restructuring effort.[49] On December 5, Discord revamped its mobile app for iOS and Android devices. It added features such as dark mode forOLED screens, voice messages, and new icons.[50]
After a fivefold increase in employees between 2020 and 2024, Discord laid off 17%, or 170 employees, in January 2024.[51]
Discord headquarters in San Francisco
OnApril Fools' Day 2024, Discord apparently broke the record for the most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours after the Discord client played the announcement video on loop in the app itself.[52] More than 1.3 billion views were removed two days later when YouTube fixed the view count. No records were broken by the April Fools' Day video.
Citron announced in April 2025 that he was stepping down as Discord's CEO but would remain on the board of directors, withHumam Sakhnini, a formerActivision Blizzard executive, becoming CEO. Citron wrote this move was in anticipation of making Discord a publicly traded company.[53]
During theGen Z protests of 2025, many demonstrations were organized on the platform.[54] In September, Discord was used in the2025 Nepal protests and to help elect a new prime minister despite being banned in Nepal along with other social media except TikTok.[55][56][57] TheMoroccan protests at the end of that month also originated on Discord, using the platform for organising and public statements.[58][59][60] After the suspect in theassassination of Charlie Kirk earlier that month confessed to the killing on the platform,[61] Sakhnini was called to testify before theUnited States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on "the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of open incitement to commit politically motivated acts".[62][60]
Discord is centered around managing communities. Communication tools such as voice and video calls, persistent chat rooms, and integrations with other gamer-focused services along with the general ability to send direct messages and create personal groups are present.[64]
Servers
Discord communities are organized into discrete collections of channels called servers. Although they are referred to as servers on the front end, they are called "guilds" in the developer documentation, to distinguish themselves from physicalcomputer servers.[65] Users can create servers for free, manage their public visibility, and create voice channels, text channels, and categories to sort the channels into.[64] Most servers have a limit of 250,000 members, but this limit can be raised if the server owner contacts Discord.[66] Users can also create roles and assign them to server members. Roles can, among other things, determine which channels users have access to, change users’ colors, and designate a server's moderation team. The previously largest known Discord server was Snowsgiving 2021, an official Discord-controlled server made for the 2021 winter holiday season. It reached 1 million members.[67] In 2023, the server forMidjourney reached over 15 million members, making it the largest server on Discord.[68]
Since 2017, Discord has allowed game developers and publishers to verify their servers. Verified servers, likeverified accounts on social media, have badges to mark them as official. A verified server is moderated by its developers' or publishers' moderation team. Verification was extended in February 2018 to includeesports teams and musical artists.[69][70][71] By the end of 2017, about 450 servers were verified.[72] In 2023, Discord paused the verification program to perform maintenance. The program has not been reopened as of September 2024.[update][73][better source needed]
Channel types
Channels may be used for voice chat, streaming,instant messaging, and file sharing.
Discord launched Stage Channels in May 2021, a feature similar toClubhouse that allows for live, moderated channels, audio talks, discussions, and other uses, which can be limited to invited or ticketed users. Initially, users could search for open Stage Channels relevant to their interests through a Stage Discovery tool. It was discontinued in October 2021.[74][75]
In August 2021, Discord launched Threads, temporary text channels that can be set to automatically disappear. This is meant to help foster more communication within servers.[76]
Forum Channels, which allow for longer and separate conversations, were introduced in September 2022. They bring anInternet forum experience to Discord.[77]
Discord launched Media Channels in June 2023. Media Channels are restricted to videos and images only.[78]
User profiles
Users register for Discord with an email address and must create a username. Until mid-2023, to allow multiple users to use the same username, each user was assigned a four-digit number called a "discriminator" (colloquially a "Discord tag"), prefixed with "#" and added to the end of their username.[79] Users who subscribed to Discord Nitro could change this tag to any four-digit number. This system was changed to a handle-based system in May 2023, removing the discriminator from usernames.[80] This new system mandated a change of username. Users selected their new usernames in priority based on how early they registered for Discord, Nitro status, and ownership of partner and verified servers.[81] Users criticized the impersonation risk if another user claimed their previous username.[82]
In June 2021, Discord added a feature that allows users to add anabout me section to their profiles and a custom colored banner at the top of their profile. Subscribers to Discord Nitro can upload static or animated images as their banners instead of solid colors.[83]
Video calls and streaming
Video calling andscreen sharing were added in October 2017, allowing users to create private video calls with up to 10 users,[84] later increased to 50 due to the increased popularity of video calling during the COVID-19 pandemic.[85]
In August 2019, this was expanded with live streaming channels in servers. A user can share their entire screen, or a specific application, and others in that channel can choose to watch the stream. While these features somewhat mimic thelivestreaming capabilities of platforms likeTwitch, Discord does not plan to compete with these services, as these features were made for small groups.[72]
Digital distribution
In August 2018, Discord launched agames storefront beta, allowing users to purchase a curated set of games through the service.[86] This will include a "First on Discord" featured set of games that their developers attest to Discord's help in getting launched, giving these games 90 days of exclusivity on the Discord marketplace. Discord Nitro subscribers will also gain access to a rotating set of games as part of their subscription, with the price of Nitro being bumped from $4.99 to $9.99 a month.[87][88] A cheaper service, "Nitro Classic", was released with the same perks as Nitro but without free games.
Following the launch of theEpic Games Store, which challengedValve'sSteam storefront by only taking a 12% cut of game revenue, Discord announced in December 2018 that it would reduce its own revenue cut to 10%.[89]
To further support developers, starting in March 2019 Discord gave the ability for developers and publishers that ran their own servers to offer their games through a dedicated store channel on their server, with Discord managing the payment processing and distribution. This can be used, for example, to give select users access to alpha- and beta-builds of a game in progress as anearly access alternative.[90]
Also in March 2019, Discord removed the digital storefront, instead choosing to focus on the Nitro subscription and having direct sales be done through developer's own servers.[91] In September 2019, Discord announced that it was ending its free game service in October 2019 as they found too few people were playing the games offered.[92]
Developer tools and bots
In December 2016, Discord introduced its GameBridgeAPI, which allows game developers to directly integrate with Discord within games.[93]
In December 2017, Discord added asoftware development kit (SDK) that allows developers to integrate their games with the service, called "rich presence". This integration is commonly used to allow players to join each other's games through Discord or to display information about a player's game progression in their Discord profile.[94]
Bots are community-made tools to automate tasks. When installed by server owners, they may aid in moderation, host mini games, and perform myriad other automated tasks. As of 2021,[update] about 430,000 bots were active in about 30% of all servers. Discord provides official bot APIs that allow custom elements such as dropdowns and buttons. In spring 2022, Discord released an official "app directory" where server owners can add bots to their servers in-Discord.The Verge called bots an "important part of Discord".[95]
A Social SDK was released in March 2025 that allows games to incorporate Discord's social features and assists with in-game communications between Discord and non-Discord users.[96]
Unofficial extensions
Although Discord disallows modifications,[97] many unofficial extensions have been created. Among these is BetterDiscord, anopen-source desktop modification that allows various plugins to be installed. These plugins augment existing functionality or add features Discord does not offer. One allows users to apply customthemes for free; another allows increasing the volume of a voice-call participant beyond the default.[98][99][100] BetterDiscord has generally been well-received, thoughPC Gamer has said it is prone to crashes and bugs.[98] According to its developers, BetterDiscord users are not at risk of being sanctioned by Discord so long as they do not use additional modifications that violate Discord's terms of service.[101]
Infrastructure
Discord is a persistent group chat software, based on aneventually consistent database architecture.[102] Discord was originally built onMongoDB. The infrastructure migrated toApache Cassandra when the platform reached a billion messages, then toScyllaDB when it reached a trillion messages.[103]
The desktop, web, and iOS apps useReact, usingReact Native oniOS/iPadOS.[1] TheAndroid app was originally written natively but now shares code with the iOS app.[104] The desktop client is built on theElectron software framework using web technologies, which allows it to be multi-platform and operate as an installed application on personal computers.[105]
While the software itself comes at no cost, the developers investigated ways to monetize it, with options including paid customization options such as emoji or stickers.[20]
In January 2017, the first paid subscription and features were released with "Discord Nitro Classic" (originally "Discord Nitro"). For a monthly fee of $4.99, users got an animatedavatar, custom and/or animated[110] emojis across all servers (non-Nitro users could only use custom emoji on the server they were added to), an increased maximum file size on file uploads (from 8MB to 50 MB), screen sharing in higher resolution, choice of discriminator (from #0001 to #9999), and a unique profile badge.[111]
In October 2018, "Discord Nitro" was renamed "Discord Nitro Classic" with the introduction of the new "Discord Nitro", which cost $9.99 and included access to freebrowser games through the Discord game store. Monthly subscribers of Discord Nitro Classic at the time of the introduction of the Discord games store were gifted with Discord Nitro until January 1, 2020, and yearly subscribers of Discord Nitro Classic were gifted with Discord Nitro until January 1, 2021.[87]
In October 2019, Discord ended its free game service with Nitro.[92]
In June 2019, Discord introduced Server Boosts, a way to benefit specific servers by purchasing "boosts" for them, with enough boosts granting various benefits for the users in that server. Each boost is a subscription costing $4.99 a month. For example, if a server maintains two boosts, it unlocks perks such as a higher maximum audio quality in voice channels and the ability to use an animated server icon. Users with Discord Nitro or Discord Nitro Classic have a 30% discount on server boost costs, with Nitro subscribers specifically also getting two free server boosts.[112][113]
Discord began testing digitalstickers on its platform in October 2020 for users in Canada. Most stickers cost between $1.50 and $2.25. Discord Nitro subscribers received a free "What's Up Wumpus" sticker pack focused on Discord's mascot, Wumpus.[114] In May 2023, Discord made most stickers free to all users. The ability to purchase stickers was discontinued, and users who had done so were refunded.
In October 2022, the "Discord Nitro Classic" subscription tier was replaced by a $2.99 "Discord Nitro Basic", which features a subset of features from the $9.99 "Nitro" tier.[115]
Discord added Avatar Decorations and Profile Themes in October 2023. Users can purchase animated decorations for their profiles from Discord's Shop.[116][117]
Another way Discord makes money is through a 10% commission as a distribution fee for all games sold through game developers' verified servers.[118]
Reception
By January 2016, Hammer & Chisel reported Discord had been used by 3million people, with growth of 1million per month, reaching 11million users in July.[24][119] By December, the company reported it had 25million users worldwide.[93] By the end of 2017, the service had drawn nearly 90million users, with roughly 1.5million new users each week.[120] With the service's third anniversary, Discord said it had 130million unique registered users.[121][122] The company observed that while the bulk of its servers were used for gaming-related purposes, a few had been created by users for non-gaming activities, likestock trading,fantasy football, and other shared interest groups.[72]
In May 2016, one year after the software's release, Tom Marks, writing forPC Gamer, called Discord the best VoIP service available.[21]Lifehacker praised Discord's interface, ease of use, and platform compatibility.[123]
In 2021, Discord had at least 350million registered users across its web and mobile platforms.[124] It was used by 56million people every month, sending a total of 25billion messages per month.[125] By June 2020, the company reported it had 100millionactive users each month.[29] As of 2024,[update] the service had over 227million monthly active users.[124]
Criticisms and controversies
Cyberbullying and moderation
Discord has had problems with hostile behavior andabuse within chats, with some communities of chat servers being "raided" (a large number of users joining a server) by other communities. This includes flooding chats with controversial topics related to race, religion, politics, and pornography.[126] In 2017, Discord said it planned to implement changes that would "rid the platform of the issue".[127]
Discord has a Trust and Safety department, which is tasked with responding to user reports.[72][120] But because Discord centers around private communities, research on its effectiveness is hard to do.[128] A study inNew Media & Society criticized Discord's offloading of server search functions to unmoderated third-party apps, saying that it facilitates hateful communities to find new audience.[128]
In January 2018,The Daily Beast reported that it found several Discord servers specifically engaged in distributingrevenge porn and facilitating harassment of these images' and videos' victims. Such actions are against Discord's terms of service and Discord shut down servers and banned users identified from these servers.[129]
Data privacy and data breaches
In September 2024, theFederal Trade Commission released a report summarizing nine company responses (including from Discord) to orders the agency made pursuant to Section 6(b) of theFederal Trade Commission Act of 1914 to provide information about user and non-user data collection (including of children and teenagers) and data use. The report found that the companies' data practices made people vulnerable toidentity theft,stalking, unlawful discrimination, emotional distress,mental health issues, social stigma, and reputational harm.[130][131][132]
In September 2025, Discord's customer services, which are provided byZendesk, suffered adata breach, which notably exposed images of users' government-issued IDs used to appeal age estimations. Around 70,000 users are impacted. Discord began notifying users of the breach in early October.[133][134]
Use by extremist users and groups
Discord gained popularity with thealt-right due to its pseudonymity and privacy. Analyst Keegan Hankes of theSouthern Poverty Law Center said, "It's pretty unavoidable to be a leader in this [alt-right] movement without participating in Discord".[135][136]
Citron said that servers found to be engaged in illegal activity or violations of the terms of service would be shut down, but gave no examples.[126]
After the violent events during theUnite the Right rally inCharlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, it was found that Discord had been used to plan and organize the white nationalist rally. This included participation byRichard Spencer andAndrew Anglin, high-level figures in the movement.[135] Discord responded by closing servers that supported the alt-right and far-right and banning users who had participated.[137] Discord's executives condemned "white supremacy" and "neo-Nazism" and said that these groups "are not welcome on Discord".[135] Discord has worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify hateful groups using Discord and ban those groups from the service.[138] Since then, it has shut down several neo-Nazi and alt-right servers, including those operated by neo-Nazi terrorist groupAtomwaffen Division,Nordic Resistance Movement,Iron March, and European Domas.[139]
In March 2019, the media collectiveUnicorn Riot published the contents of a Discord server used by several members of the white nationalist groupIdentity Evropa who were also members of theUnited States Armed Forces.[140] Unicorn Riot has since published member lists and contents of several dozen servers connected to alt-right, white supremacist, and other such movements.
In January 2021, two days after theU.S. Capitol attack, Discord deleted the pro-Donald Trump server "The Donald", "due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence, plan an armed insurrection in the United States, and spreadharmful misinformation related to2020 U.S. election fraud" but said there was no evidence the server was used to organize the attack on theCapitol building. The server had been used by former members of ther/The_Donaldsubreddit, whichReddit had deleted several months earlier.[141]
In May 2022, Payton S. Gendron was named as the suspect ina race-driven mass shooting inBuffalo, New York, that killed ten people. It was reported that Gendron used a private Discord server as a diary for weeks as he prepared for the attack. About 30 minutes before the shooting, he invited several users to view the server and read the messages. The messages were later published on4chan. Discord told the press that moderators deleted the server shortly after the shooting.[144] The New York state attorney general's office announced an investigation of Discord among other online services in the wake of the shooting to determine whether it had taken enough steps to prevent such content from being broadcast on its services, with which Discord said it would comply.[145]
After theassassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025,FBI directorKash Patel announced that more than 20 users in a Discord community had been placed under investigation after it was found the alleged shooter, Tyler James Robinson, had posted messages in the group admitting guilt for the attack.[146] Before Robinson's arrest, users in the group had also exchanged messages comparing supposed images of the shooter to Robinson, who joked he was being framed by adoppelgänger.[147] Discord later suspended Robinson's account.[148]
In July 2018, Discord updated its terms of service to bandrawn pornography with underage subjects.[149] Some Discord users subsequently criticized the moderation staff for selectively allowing "cub" content, or underage pornographicfurry artwork, under the same guidelines. The staff held that "cub porn" was different fromlolicon andshotacon and "allowable as long as it is tagged properly".[149] After numerous complaints from the community, Discord amended its community guidelines in February 2019 to disallow the sexualization of "non-humanoid animals and mythological creatures as long as they appear to be underage", and announced periodic transparency reports to better communicate with users.[150]
In June 2023,NBC News reported that it had identified 35 cases of adults being charged with "kidnapping,grooming, orsexual assault" that involved Discord. It also discovered 165 cases of prosecution for sharing child sexual exploitation material on the platform.[151]
In March 2024, a joint investigation byThe Washington Post,Wired,Der Spiegel, andRecorder outlined the extensive child grooming, sexual abuse (includingsextortion), and murder conducted by a group known as764 on Discord. The investigation linked 764 and its associated groups and servers to cases in Germany, United States, and Romania dating to April 2021. Discord's representative said the service filed hundreds of reports and removed over 34,000 accounts associated with the group.[152][153]
Age verification
Around April 2025, Discord began experimenting withage verification on the service for some users, ahead of enforcement periods for online safety laws in the UK (theOnline Safety Act 2023) and Australia (theOnline Safety Amendment). At this point, the age verification was only used if the user had not yet completed other age verification steps within the Discord app, and if they either access or attempt to change content settings to view explicit content. The process either required a face scan, which Discord claimed never left the user's device and used in-app tools developed by third parties to determine the user's age, or through scanning of a government-issued identification, which was reviewed by a third-party company.[154] The age verification was mandated for all British users by July 2025 to comply with the law.[155] While the Online Safety Amendment in Australia ultimately discounted communication services like Discord from enforcing age restrictions, Discord still opted to require all Australian users to use age verification in December 2025 as the law came into enforcement.[156][157]
Discord announced that it would implement global age verification in March 2026, similar to the methods used in the UK and Australia. All existing accounts will be marked as "teen" by default, until the user completes the age verification step, either through a face scan or a government-issued ID. An age inference model would use AI-powered tools to analyze existing users based on their profile, usage, and gaming history to determine if they are adults, to verify them automatically. Teen accounts would not be able to join servers or channels marked as adult, while existing accounts will not be able to see the contents of these servers until verifying their age.[158][159] Many users stated they would leave Discord due to the policy, citing concerns surrounding the September 2025 breach.[160][161] Other concerns were raised about the AI not being able to correctly guess the user's age, comparing the approach similar toRoblox's own age-verification system being bypassed by minors using computer-generated images. In response to the negative feedback, Discord stated that they expect "the vast majority of people" will be marked appropriately by its age inference model and will never be asked for age verification, clarifying that verification would only be required when the inference model fails to make a clear determination in the user's age.[162] Other concerns were raised by certain third-party vendors that were involved in the age verification process. For some UK users, their face scan or government ID scan would be processed byPersona, a company that has received funding fromPeter Thiel, and leave their information with Persona for up to seven days.[163]
Bans
On January 27, 2021, Discord banned ther/WallStreetBets server during theGameStop short squeeze, citing "hateful and discriminatory content", which users found contentious.[164] The next day, Discord allowed another server to be created and began assisting with moderation on it.[165]
Censorship
In September 2024, according to Russian mediaKommersant, Russian regulatorRoskomnadzor was planning to block Discord.[166] Roskomnadzor demanded that Discord remove 947 posts containing illegal content and fined it 3.5 million rubles ($37,493).[167] On October 8, Russia officially blocked Discord.[168]
After a decision by theAnkara 1st Criminal Court of Peace, several hours after Russia's block, Turkey blocked Discord over concerns about child abuse and obscene content.[169] The decision was made aftertwo women in Istanbul were murdered by a Discord user who allegedly garnered support for his action from Discord users before dying by suicide on 4 October 2024.[170]
Discord is blocked by theGreat Firewall in China. Chinese police interrogate people who make sensitive comments on the platform.[171]
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