How Discord, born from an obscure game, became a social hub for young people

[weijian]

I am not a Discord user but I heard about it in a podcast from Bill Gurley.

How Discord, born from an obscure game, became a social hub for young people

Earlier this year, Discord held deal talks with Microsoft about an acquisition that could have topped US$10 billion, according to people briefed on the talks who were not authorised to speak about it publicly. The deal did not go through. (Microsoft declined to comment.)

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/leaders...ung-people

[Wildreamz]

Light Discord user here. Discord seems to be a much better (better designed, quicker, more stable, platform neutral, feature rich) version of Teams (not really, they excel at quite different things; but many of their features and use-case are converging).

Heavily used by digital natives (gamers, millennials, Gen Z and younger) for everything from gaming, online communities, buying selling things etc. while protecting real-world identities.

Personally consider it the de facto communication platform of the Metaverse (together with Telegram).