New to discord

[Jimjamesjimothy8]

I'm completely new to discord. What exactly is it for?

[Slottr]

In a nutshell it's a much better skype with more features.

 

And it says that because, well, you don't have the permissions to send messages in whatever channel that is 

[minibois]

You can talk to people and people talk back ('people' may include bots).

It's a way to completely lose yourself in a made up environment with people that aren't always honest socialize.

 

You can join a random group in the hopes of finding buddies to ... Do stuff with (like talking) or you can make one with friends... Or something.

[Bananasplit_00]

21 minutes ago, minibois said:

You can talk to people and people talk back ('people' may include bots).

It's a way to completely lose yourself in a made up environment with people that aren't always honest socialize.

 

You can join a random group in the hopes of finding buddies to ... Do stuff with (like talking) or you can make one with friends... Or something.

that got a little too real there

[jiyeon]

Discord's a text and voice application originally intended for gamers. It's similar in practise to Skype, where a primary function is the ability to voice and video call your friends, with the addition of a text messaging section.

 

There's a lot of additional features such as separated text and voice channels, server roles, and administrator settings, it's almost like a regular group chat you'd make with your friends.

 

There is also neat things like Spotify and game integration, where Spotify will detect if you're listening to something on Spotify or playing a game, or even streaming, and will display that as your status in addition to whether you're shown as Online, Away, Do Not Disturb, or Offline, or in rare cases for when you stream, show 'Streaming',