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Discord launched a major refresh of its mobile app on Tuesday , place message front - and - center while making a innkeeper of minuscule improvement that user have been quest .
Inspired by exploiter feedback , theredesigned apptailors the mobileDiscordexperience for on - the - go use compared to its popular desktop app , while change things up to better orchestrate Discord ’s Swiss Army knife - like rooms of societal features .
“ [ In 2015 ] our focus was on building great product for people who play games on PC , with Mobile River serving as a comrade app for when you were AFK , ” Discord Group Product Manager Francesco Polizzi wrote in apostdescribing the change . “ Over time , the amount of * stuff * that Discord can do has grown exponentially . ”
In change rolling out this week , Discord ’s former piloting buttons are gone , supplant with a fresh set of tab directing roving user to Servers , Messages , Notifications and their own profile . The fellowship experimented with a more horizontal dock - like design but ultimately kept servers engineer in a vertical lefthand tower , like the late peregrine version and the desktop app . Because some the great unwashed belong to many , many servers and care to swop between them , Discord opted to keep the classic layout to display as many servers as possible at once .
subject matter now have their own section of the app , pile up decimetre and chemical group DMs in one place . That ’s already a big improvement from how the app was arrange before and the new layout also adds a status sphere at the top , depict you what friends are doing in real fourth dimension so you’re able to hop in and join them . An pick to favorite a specific DM or group DM thread make the messaging part of the app oeuvre more like Messages on the iPhone , gather up your most frequent contacts at the top for ease of use .
Clicking through to a television channel or a message thread now displays selective information more clearly , accumulate media , links , file and member into a cleaner , prominent design . Search also get a major overhaul and now can return answer for messages , attachment , trap content and files through a universal search bar . Overall , many of the new Discord improvements reverberate other message - centric apps , particularly Apple ’s own , optimize the mobile experience for how multitude in reality tend to use the app when they ’re on the go .
Other improvements focus on create the app more vivid visually , including a vamp visibility page that highlights some ofDiscord ’s recent focus on custom profile . Beyond that , sharing pictures and telecasting looks better and supports large file sizes while video and part call get a brand raw mobile - favorable UI . To top it off , Discord in conclusion has a proper nighttime mode ( the “ Midnight ” musical theme ) and should establish right smart quicker while using a quarter of the information .
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Discord exposit its plans to trade custom avatars and other virtual items
