Discord Coming To Xbox Insiders and Fortnite-Related Update In New Patch Notes
By Jesse Collins ·
The recent update to Discord has added some great improvements as they roll into their third anniversary like a freight train. Here's a list of what to expect.
Discord has been pretty busy lately. Between their third year anniversary, which included a full infographic showing how much they’ve grown even in the past year, to new integrations and updates, they’ve definitely kept themselves on their toes.
Here’s their official list of patch notes for May 14th, 2018, including their stellar musical preference for people to listen to while reading it. For the record, it’s Daft Punk’s Bigger, Stronger, Faster.
- We did some heavy tinkering on Discord's core infrastructure. Most of the following bullets are related to this. Queue the Daft Punk track.
- We're not joking, please listen to this while reading for maximum impact.
- Large servers perform better in general. CPU and network usage is about the same regardless of server size (whether a hundred people or a hundred thousand people).
- Offline members are no longer hidden after you cross one-hundred members. We turned this off long ago for tech... and it is back. Offline lists in large servers are still hidden, though.
- Discord uses a lot less data now. Long live your data plan.
- Discord uses a lot less battery now. Longer live your battery life. Also, the iOS app loads faster. Android imminent.
- Large Discord servers can now grow much larger. This one's for you, Fortnite.
- Select Xbox Insiders can now connect their Xbox account to Discord. Will be available to the rest of us mere mortals sometime in the very very very near future.
- Audio files can now be played directly in Discord to minimize the time it takes for people to listen to your toasty mix tape.
- Screen Share now includes audio! Now your friends can yell at you to kill the Genji behind you.
- New authentication screens are sexy af. Go check out how wavy they are.
- Added a volume slider to the inline media player because that llama video someone sent me was loud and confusing.
- The instant invite pop up now has user suggestions for speed running server invites. UX BOOOOOOST :rocket:
- Turned off a few lights in dark theme. There's more dark now. That's how that works.
Their newest update hit in the past couple days and people noticed they made some changes for their biggest server, Fortnite, to be able to handle more people. This accounts for the 180,000 people in the single server alone to be able to grow even more massive.
For mobile users, Discord now uses way less data and way less of your battery life. As a mobile app, this is incredibly helpful for Nintendo fans, especially if you use Discord as your chat app for your Nintendo Switch instead of their awkward mobile app.
In addition to the server enhancements, the previously reported Xbox Insiders are starting the roll out of Discord integration for Xbox Live. This means that you can add easily your Xbox friends list within the Discord app, similar to the already available Facebook integration.
Don't forget to hit CTRL-R in the desktop app to install the updates, as you won't see them until then. As for mobile, the update should be available now!
With Xbox integration, it’s bound to have Mixer eventually as well. In any case, Discord is showing no signs of going anywhere anytime soon, so maybe they could get us Playstation and Nintendo integrations one day as well. Well, we can dream, can’t we?