ĭiscord was publicly released in May 2015 under the domain name. To develop Discord, Hammer & Chisel gained additional funding from YouWeb's 9+ incubator, which had also funded the startup of Hammer & Chisel, and from Benchmark capital and Tencent. In addition, 'Discord in the gaming community' was the problem they wished to solve. 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. This led to the development of a chat service with a focus on user friendliness with minimal impact to performance. Īccording to Citron, during the development process, he noticed how difficult it was for his team to work out tactics in games like Final Fantasy XIV and League of Legends using available voice over IP (VoIP) software. Their first product was Fates Forever, released in 2014, which Citron anticipated to be the first MOBA game on mobile platforms, but it did not become commercially successful. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in 2012.

The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. As of 2021, the service has over 350 million registered users and over 150 million monthly active users. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers. A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called 'servers'. VoIP communications, instant messaging, videoconferences, content delivery, and social mediaĭiscord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform.

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