Hacker News with Generative AI: Discord

Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages (discord.com)
Back in 2017, we shared how we built our message search system to index billions of messages.

Search, Social Media, Discord, Messaging, Technology

35 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 9 comments

Passing the Torch (discord.com)
Hi everyone — I have some big news to share, so I’ll cut right to the chase: We have hired a new CEO to lead Discord through our next chapter of growth and someday becoming a public company.

Leadership, Company News, Discord

17 points by Philpax 3 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: KlavisAI-Open Source MCP Clients on Slack/Discord AndHosted MCP Servers (github.com/Klavis-AI)
Klavis AI (YC X25): Open Source MCP client on Slack/Discord and various MCP servers.

Open Source, Slack, Discord, AI, Chatbots

13 points by wirehack 11 days ago | 1 comments

Cross Compiling Swift (khanwinter.com)
There are multiple ways to cross-compile Swift on different platforms. I explored a few methods while building a Discord bot and a Bluesky bot.

Swift, Programming Languages, Cross-Compilation, Discord, Bluesky

3 points by todsacerdoti 26 days ago | 0 comments

Discord is getting mobile ads (theverge.com)
Discord is bringing third-party ads to its mobile platform.

Mobile, Advertising, Social Media, Discord

13 points by akyuu 34 days ago | 0 comments

Discord introduces a feature to ignore rather than block users (engadget.com)
Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore. This allows a person to hide any new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles and activity from selected users without alerting them.

Social Media, User Experience, Features, Discord

4 points by ksec 75 days ago | 0 comments

Discord has ongoing major outage (discordstatus.com)

Discord, Service Outages, Technology

49 points by bluetidepro 80 days ago | 12 comments

Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above (github.com/DiscordMessenger)
Discord Messenger is a messenger application designed to be compatible with Discord, while being backwards compatible with down to Windows 2000 (although support for even older versions has been attempted).

Discord, Windows, Software, Retro Computing

253 points by Tiberium 82 days ago | 195 comments

Show HN: Discorch – Offline tool to browse and delete your Discord messages (discorch.org)

Discord, Privacy, Tools, Messaging

11 points by hampus 98 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Math (Academy) Discord Group (ycombinator.com)
I first heard about Math Academy last year here on HN. It took me some time to pull the trigger and I am now a happy subscriber looking to connect with other users - email's in my profile.

Online Communities, Education, Math, Discord

6 points by epsilon-delta 113 days ago | 6 comments

Discord API Errors (discordstatus.com)
We are currently investigating an issue affecting latency and errors on various API endpoints.

Discord, API, Errors, Downtime

37 points by mot2ba 160 days ago | 27 comments

Your Discord Community Is Dead (bearblog.dev)
There's a special kind of sadness to an empty Discord server. The meticulously planned category structure. The welcome bot with its automated messages. And in every channel, the same tumbleweeds rolling by.

Community Management, Discord, Online Communities

16 points by andout_ 168 days ago | 0 comments

Russia and Turkey ban Discord messaging app (therecord.media)
Russia and Turkey have blocked access to the messaging platform Discord, claiming that it refuses to cooperate with local authorities.

Russia, Turkey, Discord, Messaging Apps, Censorship

4 points by ankitdce 197 days ago | 0 comments

Russia and Turkey Block Discord (reclaimthenet.org)
Today, Russia and Turkey have banned Discord from their countries.

Russia, Turkey, Discord, Censorship, Social Media

8 points by oguz-ismail 199 days ago | 0 comments

Russia gears up to ban Discord 'in the coming days' (pcgamer.com)

Russia, Discord, Censorship, Social Media, Gaming

7 points by CHB0403085482 207 days ago | 0 comments

How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) (discord.com)
In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages.

Messaging, Data Storage, Discord, Scaling

435 points by jakey_bakey 209 days ago | 234 comments

Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40% (discord.com)
At Discord, we’re always thinking about ways to improve our services and increase performance. After all, the faster our app gets, the sooner you can return to your friends and conversations!

Performance Optimization, WebSockets, Discord

174 points by hampus 218 days ago | 115 comments

Dave: Discord's New End-to-End Encryption for Audio and Video (discord.com)
Last year, we announced that we were experimenting with new encryption protocols and technologies for audio and video calls on Discord. After extensive experimenting, designing, developing, and auditing, we’re excited to announce Discord’s audio and video end-to-end encryption (“E2EE A/V” or “E2EE” for short), which we like to refer to as our DAVE protocol.

Security, Discord, Privacy, Video Conferencing, Audio Calls

66 points by hampus 221 days ago | 35 comments

Discord runs Powershell on load to find Nvidia binaries (twitter.com)

Discord, Security, Software, Programming, Nvidia

36 points by adrift 251 days ago | 49 comments

Discord flags lack of IPv6 as "intended" (github.com/discord)

Discord, Networking, Software, IPv6

6 points by rixthefox 260 days ago | 2 comments

Patrick McKenzie – How a Discord Server Saved 1000s of Lives [video] (youtube.com)

Discord, Online Communities, Mental Health, Video

11 points by tosh 276 days ago | 1 comments

Discord vs. IRC Rough Notes (push.cx)