Discord is introducing a native way for servers to preemptively detect and block harmful messages and spam. The tool, called AutoMod, is available today and will allow anyone who moderates one of Discord’s server-based communities to create a custom list of words that the new bot can scan for and intercept. When one of the […]
May 13th, 2021
Discord
Late last month, Discord introduced Stage Channels, a Clubhouse-like feature that allows Community servers to broadcast audio conversations to a group of people without everyone talking over one another. Now the company plans to make finding those broadcasts and the servers that host them easier.
In June, Discord will roll out a feature called Stage Discovery. You ll see it as a new interface within the app that will highlight some of the Stage Channels that are broadcasting at that exact moment, including those from servers of which you re already a member. You can tap any one of them to start listening without leaving the Stage Discovery interface. However, if you decide to click through, you ll find Discord has made a small but, in its view, significant tweak to the Stage Channels interface. At the top, you ll find a new icon you can click or tap to join the community that put together the discussion you re listening to currently.