discord yearbook

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DIscord _ Imagine a Place frome Finn Keenan

2015.05.13

It's time to ditch Skype and TeamSpeak. Discord is here.

All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life.

2020.05.05

A new way to chat with your communities and friends.

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text, whether you’re part of a school club, a nightly gaming group, a worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to hang out.

2020.07.01

Your place to talk

Whether you’re part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, Discord makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often.

2021.05.14

IMAGINE A PLACE...

...where you can belong to a school club, a gaming group, or a worldwide art community. Where just you and handful of friends can spend time together. A place that makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often.

In 2015, Jason Citron, a computer programmer, was struggling to break through in the video game industry. The new multiplayer game he had created with his development studio, Hammer & Chisel, was not catching on.

So Mr. Citron engineered an abrupt about-face. He laid off his company’s game developers, turned the game’s chatting feature into its sole product and gave it a mysterious name — Discord.

2015.0513

It’s time to ditch Skype and Team Speak. Discord is here.

All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life.

Financials

Funding: $39M

Until the end of 2016, Discord continued to optimize functions and accumulated 25 million registered users

Until the end of 2016, Discord continued to optimize functions and accumulated 25 million registered users

The subscription fee for discord nitro, which means that the core of discord is completely free This feature allowed discord to double its total revenue by the end of 2017, making $10 million

Financials

Valuation: $1.6B

Funding: $80M

Monthly Active Users: 10M

Discord has a new problem: revenge porn

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/17/16901218/discord-revenge-porn-social-media

The chat platform Discord has struggled with abuse, racism, and intolerance on its service, but its problems are far from over — and now include revenge porn. In a report published today, The Daily Beast details how it discovered “hundreds of [explicit] images, almost all of women,” pulled from social media, or of sexual imagery being shared without consent across the platform maliciously.

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