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about of Discord
historyThe concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games. He eventually sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for $104 million,[2] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in 2012.[3] Their original product was Fates Forever released in 2014, which Citron anticipated to be the first MOBA game on mobile platforms. While Fates Forever was not commercially successful due to low popularity, Citron noted the difficulties that his team had in building the game when trying to play other representative games like Final Fantasy XIV and League of Legends to work out gameplay concepts, specifically highlighting issues of current Voice over IP options that were available: some VoIP options required players to share various IP addresses just to connect, while other services like Skype or TeamSpeak were resource-heavy and had known security issues. This led the developers towards developing a chat service that was much friendlier to use based on more modern technology.[4]
To develop Discord, Hammer & Chisel gained additional funding from YouWeb's 9+ incubator, who had also funded the startup of Hammer & Chisel, and from Benchmark capital and Tencent.[5][6]
The public release of Discord was in May 2015.[7] According to Citron, the only area that they pushed Discord into was for the Reddit communities, finding that many subreddit forums were replacing IRC servers with Discord ones.[8] Discord became popular through eSports and LAN tournament gamers and through other Twitch.tv streamers.[9]
The company raised an additional $20 million USD in funding for the software in January 2016.[10] On August 10, 2017, Discord publicly announced the
release of the "Video Calling and Screenshare" functionality; these features were initially launched as a beta to 5% of users.[11]
Software
The Discord client is built on the Electron framework using web technologies,[12] which allows it to be multi-platform and run on personal computers, mobile devices, and the web. The software is supported by nine data centers scattered around the world to keep latency with clients low.[13] All versions of the client support the same feature set. The Discord application for personal computers is specifically designed for use while gaming, as it includes features such as low-latency, free voice chat servers for users and a dedicated server infrastructure. Discord's developers plan to add video calling and screen sharing.[7] Direct calling was added in an update on July 28, 2016, with support for calls between two or more users. In December 2016, the company introduced its GameBridge API, which allows game developers to directly support integration with Discord within games.[14] The Git repository documentation for the Discord API is hosted on GitHub.
While the software itself comes at no cost, the developers investigated ways to monetize it, with potential options including paid customization options such as emoji or stickers.[5] In January 2017, the first paid features were released with 'Discord Nitro'. For a monthly subscription fee users can get an animated avatar, use custom emojis across all servers, an increased maximum file size on file uploads (from 8 MB to 50 MB), and a unique profile badge.[15] The developers have claimed that while they will look for ways to monetize the software, it will never lose its core features.[16] Discord uses the Opus audio format, which is low-latency and designed to compress speech.[16]
Reception
By January 2016, Hammer & Chisel claimed that Discord had been used by 3 million people, with growth of 1 million per month, reaching 11 million users in July that year.[10][17] As of December 2016, the company reports it had 25 million users worldwide.[14] In May that year, one year after the software's release, Tom Marks, writing for PC Gamer, described Discord as the best VoIP service available.[7] Lifehacker has praised Discord's interface, ease of use and platform compatibility.[18]
Criticism
Discord has had problems with hostile behaviour and abuse within chats, with some communities of chat servers being 'raided' by other communities. This includes flooding with controversial topics related to race, religion, politics, and pornography.[19]
Discord gained popularity with alt right due to the client's features supporting anonymity and privacy. Analyst Keegan Hankes from the Southern Poverty Law Center said "It's pretty unavoidable to be a leader in this [alt-right] movement without participating in Discord".[20][21] The Discord staff were aware of these activities and had taken steps to remove servers that violated their terms of service prior to August 2017, but typically appeared to only have taken action in the most extreme cases where they could affirm illegal activity had occurred.[22][23]
Following the violent events that occurred during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, at which clashes between white nationalist groups and protestors led to one death and several injuries, it was found that Discord had been used to plan and organize the white nationalist rally and during the event, including participation by Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin, high-level figures in the movement.[20] Having already been in internal discussions on how to deal with the rising use of Discord by such groups, in the wake of the Charlottesville events Discord executed moves to eliminate servers that supported the alt-right and far-right and to ban users who had participated.[24] Discord's executives condemned "white supremacy" and "neo-Nazism", and said that these groups "are not welcome on Discord".[20]
