Discord is an excellent, free chat application that was built for gamers, but is useful for anyone. It comes with Slack-style text chat, group voice chat channels, and plenty of tools to manage your users. It’s a great tool for getting a community together or talking with friends while you play games.
Here’s how to set up your own server.What Is Discord?
Discord is a lot like Slack with some extra features that are designed to help gamers…but honestly, it’s a great chat program all around. Regular text chat channels work a lot like classic IRC-style chat rooms. Anyone (with permission) can enter a room and talk or use slash commands. Discord also offers voice channels that members of the server can drop into to talk with other members using a headset. So, for example, you could set up a server for your gaming buddies, then create a voice chat channel for Overwatch, Destiny, and Minecraft. Hop in the appropriate channel, and you can talk with anyone playing that game without disturbing your friends who are in a different game. No worrying about invites or creating a new group chat every single time you play.
Currently, it’s free to set up a Discord server and there are no limits to the number of users, channels, or even servers you can create. (Discord has information on how it makes money here.) There are already thousands of existing Discord servers for all kinds of communities and groups that you can browse here (note: some may be NSFW). Whether you want a place for your friends to chat while playing Overwatch,…
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