Discord
| Discord | |
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Logo used since 2021 | |
Screenshot Screenshot depicting Discord's home screen in 2026 | |
| Developer | Discord Inc. |
| Initial release | May 13, 2015 |
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| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, web browsers |
| Available in | 30 languages |
List of languages English (UK/US), Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Spain/LATAM), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese | |
| Type | VoIP communications, instant messaging, videoconferences, content delivery, and social media |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | discord |
Type of site | Private |
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| Founded | May 2015 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founders |
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| CEO | Humam Sakhnini |
| Industry | Software |
| Employees | 501 (2025) |
| URL | discord |
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media. Communication can be private or in virtual communities called "servers". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels accessed by invitation links. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers.
As of 2024, Discord has about 150 million monthly active users and 19 million weekly active servers. It is primarily used by gamers, but the share of users interested in other topics is growing. As of March 2024, Discord is the 30th most visited website in the world, and 22.98% of its traffic comes from the United States. In March 2022, Discord employed 600 people globally.