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| Discord is rapidly expanding beyond gaming |
Since its launch in 2015, the Discord platform has quickly become one of the best places for video game players to congregate and communicate online, and it continues to grow rapidly.
It is estimated that Discord has over 140 million monthly active users, up from 56 million at the end of 2019.
The platform also has 19 million weekly active servers, including a community with multiple chat, audio, and video channels.
Discord has advanced features that bring these servers closer to online communities than simple chat rooms, including real-time audio and video chats, custom emojis, and custom posts that make users unique.
Unlike most social consumption apps, Discord does not use ads.
This startup is mostly making money thanks to Nitro. Discord is priced at $ 9.99 a month or $ 99.99 a year, which gives users more features like animated emojis and HD videos.
Although the Discord platform is generally associated with online players, more and more people are starting the Discord community focused on interests and games.
Many servers focus their attention on regions, sports, or investments, and 70% of users say they use the app for games and other purposes, and that percentage has increased from 30% in early 2020 to today.
In March of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft intends to purchase the platform for at least $ 10 billion, making Discord's position in the commercial arena much better known.
After negotiations with Microsoft ended, Discord recently announced a partnership with Sony, which holds a minority stake in the startup.
Several Discord server administrators said: When people sought to communicate with others over the past year, they noticed a slight increase in the number of communities.
The San Francisco and Bay Area server is an example. The server now has more than 2000 users, most of whom know that they are people who live in many cities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Discord server administrator and owner stated that the server has been around for about four years and started as a Reddit branch of the San Francisco community.
But Discord servers have grown over the past year so people can socialize, and server managers estimate that they spend around $ 80 a month keeping the servers up and running.
This includes placing server ads on Meetup.com to attract more subscribers and paying for Nitro subscription services.
In terms of functions, Slack is the platform most similar to Discord as they both function as lock rooms where users can talk to each other via text, voice or video messages through various chat rooms.
The more areas in the United States open up, the more people can resume the offline activities that were conducted before the pandemic. However, Discord server administrators stated that they are not concerned about this. This can have an impact on online communities.
While many of the communities within Discord have grown during periods of quarantine and shutdowns, those in charge of these servers have full confidence in the communities they have created and continue to be the center of the network. Be social.