Discord
More info
- Creator
- Jason Citron, Stanislav Vishnevskiy
- Released
- Owner
- Discord Inc.
- Type
- Chat & voice platform
- Website
- discord.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Chat and voice platform launched in 2015 for gamers, now a general-purpose community platform with 200+ million monthly active users.
Model: "servers" (now called guilds) with text and voice channels, role-based permissions, a bot ecosystem via a gateway API. Written in Elixir/Erlang for chat (massive concurrency) and Rust for voice and later for read-states after the famous blog post about Go's GC not cutting it.
Replaced IRC + Skype + TeamSpeak in one stroke. Competitors: Slack (enterprise), Matrix (open), Teams. Backbone for open-source communities, AI research groups and students worldwide.