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Discord |
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2020-05-07 16:56:58 UTC |
Discord is a free text and voice-based social software directed towards gamers. With over 250 million users and counting, Discord continues to grow and has many updates and awesome features.
Discord is developed by Discord Inc. (previously known as Hammer and Chisel), by the former developers of the OpenFeint software, which was a very popular mobile gaming platform for iOS and Android until 2012. Jason Citron, the founder, went ahead to develop Discord with a group of amazing employees, and were also known for the popular mobile game MOBA: Fates Forever.
The website for Discord is https://discord.com.
Discord is available on multiple platforms:
Windows: Discord is available for Windows users with computers running Windows 7 and above.
Mac: Discord is available for MacOSX (10.10+ Yosemite) and macOS computers.
Linux: Discord is available for any modern Linux distribution. Formats offered include .deb and .tar.gz.
Android: Discord is available for Android devices running Android 4.1 and above, but this excludes the Amazon Kindle which is not currently supported.
iOS: Discord is available for iOS devices running iOS 8 and above (for example: iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 5, iPad 2, iPad Mini, iPad Air or better), but devices 3.5'' or smaller are not supported.
Discord has different clients which can be ran across the platforms offering different versions and releases.
These are only accessible on Windows, MacOSX/macOS and Linux:
Stable: This is Discord's stable, public build. It is the most polished build, with the features completed and polished.
Public Test Build (PTB): This is Discord's PTB build, with features not yet released the public. It's not as stable and can have bugs and issues. It can be downloaded by selecting Public Test Build on the Discord download page (https://discord.com/download).
Canary: This is Discord's Canary build, with the earliest of features introduced to users. It's the bleeding edge of the client and can have instability and issues and bugs with new features whilst also introduce bug fixes present on the Stable and PTB builds. It can be downloaded through the Discord Testers group (https://discord.gg/discord-testers).
Web: This is the Web browser client, meaning it can be accessible through a Web Browser. Whilst it misses some features which can only be used on Discord Clients, it allows compatibility for devices such as Chromebooks which run ChromeOS.
These are accessible through TestFlight or Google's Developer Platform:
iOS Testflight: These contain early features for the Discord application on iOS.
Android Alpha: These contain early features for the Discord application on Android.