Discord is a voice, video, and text communications platform founded in 2015. It serves over 200 million monthly users, supporting everything from small friend groups to large organised communities built around shared interests and hobbies. The platform is available across PC, mobile, and console.
Discord's roots lie in gaming. More than 90% of its users play games, and its community collectively spends 1.9 billion hours gaming on the platform each month. The product was originally built to solve the problem of talking with friends while playing games together, and gaming remains central to its identity and direction.
The platform's core features include real-time voice chat, video streaming, text messaging, custom emoji support, server management tools, and server boosting for premium community features. Discord has also expanded into integrated in-app activities, reflecting a broader evolution from a gaming-focused chat tool to a general-purpose platform for communities organised around any shared interest.
Discord's technical scope spans real-time communication infrastructure, cross-platform development, and community tooling at significant scale - areas that define much of the engineering and product work at the company.