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Engineering & Developers

Building on the Social Layer of Games: What’s New from GDC 2026

At GDC 2026, Discord gives developers more ways to close the gap between connection and play.

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Policy & Safety
How ROOST is Advancing Online Safety
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Engineering & Developers
You’re Now Discord Official: Developers, Claim Your Game and Verify Your Server
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: March 6, 2026
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Engineering & Developers
Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)

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Policy & Safety
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing
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Engineering & Developers
Osprey: Open Sourcing our Rule Engine
A collage of Discord’s frog mascot, Phibi, in different moods and expressions.
Product & Features
How to Change Your Theme to Bring Your Vibe to Discord
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: February 4, 2026
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How to Discord
How to Customize Your Discord Profile
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Engineering & Developers
Discord Patch Notes: December 8, 2025
A preview of the three Rewards for those who gift Nitro to a friend.
Product & Features
Gift Ideas for the Dedicated Discord User in Your Life
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Product & Features
Your Discord Checkpoint is Rolling Out! Celebrate What You Did in 2025
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Product & Features
Save and Display Your Faves: Add Discord Shop & Marvel Rivals Items to Your Profile’s Wishlist
A preview of the Marvel Rivals Shop inside their official Discord server.
Product & Features
Bringing In-Game Commerce to Discord Communities
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How to Discord
How to Link Discord to Battlefield 6, Marvel Rivals & More
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How to Discord
How to Share What You’re Playing, Listening to, or Watching as Your Status on Discord
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Product & Features
Discord Update: November 6, 2025 Changelog
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Product & Features
A Cornucopia of Updates Make Discord on Desktop Fresher Than a Crisp Fall Breeze
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: November 4, 2025
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Engineering & Developers
From Single-Node to Multi-GPU Clusters: How Discord Made Distributed Compute Easy for ML Engineers
A preview of the Trick or Treat Avatar Decorations.
Discord HQ
During October, Treat a Friend to Nitro and Trick Out Your Profile for Halloween 🎃
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: October 7, 2025
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Product & Features
Discord Update: September 25, 2025 Changelog
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Discord HQ
Staff Picks, September 2025: Welcome to Our Video Game Museum
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Engineering & Developers
Discord Patch Notes: September 3, 2025
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Engineering & Developers
Bringing DAVE to All Discord Platforms
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How to Discord
Starting Your First Discord Server
A demonstration of the Discord Social SDK’s cross-platform communications.
Engineering & Developers
Discord’s Powerful Cross-Platform Chat: Ready for Your Game
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Community
Introducing the Community Server Cleanup Report for August 2025
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Engineering & Developers
Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2025
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Product & Features
Reward Your Play: Complete Quests. Earn Orbs. Get Sweet Stuff.
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Discord HQ
*FLAILS AROUND* SUMMER SPECIAL! JOIN NITRO, GET AN EXTRA MONTH OF NITRO ON US!
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Engineering & Developers
Discord Patch Notes: July 7, 2025
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Product & Features
Discord Update: June 30, 2025 Changelog
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Discord HQ
Authenticity Matters: Discord's Pride Month 2025
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Discord HQ
Staff Picks, June 2025: Summer of Showcases
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How to Discord
How to Set Up Your Server’s Roles for Members, Mods & Admins
Previews of Server Tags and Enhanced Role Styles, floating over a glowing pink gem.
Product & Features
Get More From Your Boosts With New Server Perks
A preview of the Freshly Picked Avatar Decoration obtainable by gifting a friend Nitro.
Product & Features
Gift Nitro and Earn A Flavorful Splash for your Avatar
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Product & Features
Discord Social SDK Updates & Integrations
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: June 3, 2025
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How to Discord
How to Use the Discord Soundboard & Add More Sounds
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Discord HQ
Checkpoint 3: Leveling Up Discord Quests with Orbs and Advanced Measurement
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Product & Features
Go Beyond, Plus Ultra! with the My Hero Academia Collection
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Discord HQ
Thank You for Ten Years
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Discord HQ
Staff Picks, May 2025: The Games That Brought Us to Discord
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Engineering & Developers
How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
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Discord HQ
Passing the Torch
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Product & Features
Worthy of a Plaque: Nameplates Land in the Shop
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How to Discord
How to Use Discord’s In-Game Overlay to Talk While Playing on PC
Wumpus running up a staircase made of Discord Developer logos.
Engineering & Developers
Overclocking dbt: Discord's Custom Solution in Processing Petabytes of Data
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: April 3, 2025
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Discord HQ
Staff Picks, April 2025: All The Adaptations
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Discord HQ
MAJOR NEWS: DISCORD ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST IN-HOUSE AAAA VIDEO GAME, “THE LAST MEADOW”
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Discord HQ
Checkpoint 2: Our First Year With Discord Quests
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How to Discord
How to Create & Upload Your Own Stickers on Discord
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Product & Features
Discord Update: March 25, 2025 Changelog
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Engineering & Developers
Announcing Discord’s Social SDK, Helping Power Your Game’s Social Experiences
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Engineering & Developers
The Game Developer Playbook, Part One: Getting Started on Discord
Engineering & Developers
The Game Developer Playbook, Part Two: Early Access and Pre-Launch
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Engineering & Developers
Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF
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Engineering & Developers
Supercharging Discord Mobile: Our Journey to a Faster App
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Discord HQ
Leveling Up Black Voices in Gaming
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Discord HQ
December Staff Picks: It’s Giving Games
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Product & Features
Discord Update: December 19, 2024 Changelog
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How to Discord
How to Stream Games and Applications to Discord from Desktop or Mobile
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Engineering & Developers
How Discord Seamlessly Upgraded Millions of Users to 64-Bit Architecture
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: December 5, 2024
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Discord HQ
Find Wumpus in the WEBTOON Universes & Be Rewarded with a Nitro Trial
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Engineering & Developers
Measuring Product Impact Without A/B Testing: How Discord Used the Synthetic Control Method for Voice Messages
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How to Discord
How to Navigate Discord Using Only Your Keyboard
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How to Discord
How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts on Discord & Create Custom Keybinds
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Product & Features
Discord Update: November 18, 2024 Changelog
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Product & Features
Celebrate Arcane’s Second Season with a new Shop Collection
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: November 1, 2024
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How to Discord
How to Play Games, Listen to Music, and Improve Your Discord Server with Apps & Activities
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Discord HQ
October Staff Picks: Monster Season
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Product & Features
Set Out for a Discord Adventure! Check Out Our Roll20 Adventure & D&D Shop Collection
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Policy & Safety
Mental Health & Discord: Promoting Well-Being All Year Long
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Discord HQ
This Halloween, Treat a Friend to Nitro & Get a Haunting Avatar Decoration!
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Discord HQ
Checkpoint Reached: New Updates on our Quest to Connect More Game Developers with Players
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Product & Features
Discord Patch Notes: October 1, 2024
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Discord HQ
September Staff Picks: Mid-Travel Pitstop
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Engineering & Developers
Come Build Where the World Plays
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Product & Features
Discord Update: September 26, 2024 Changelog
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Product & Features
Discover More Ways to Play with Apps – Now Anywhere on Discord!
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