Minutes later, their company laptops were automatically wiped.By Craig Pearson Friends, game communities, and developers will often ask you to “join their Discord,” which isn’t an invitation to an uprising but a full-featured communications app that runs across a number of systems. Here are some examples of her coverage: Healthcare startup Calibrate's CEO used a Zoom call to announce layoffs affecting more than 150 staff.

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She spent a semester at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in Germany and also speaks conversational Dutch. Grace joined the team in August 2020 after studying German & Business at Newcastle University and spending a year as the Editor-in-Chief of its student newspaper the Courier. She particularly enjoy writing about the restaurant industry, fast-food giants, and the labor market. She covers retail, transport, tech, and other breaking business news. Grace Dean is a Senior Business Reporter at Insider's London office. This is especially true for video games, which make up the bulk of Discord's most popular servers. If you have an interest in something, there's a good chance you can find a Discord server for it. There are thousands of different Discord servers, each one dedicated to a different topic. Starting your own server is free, as is joining other servers. You can also share videos, images, internet links, music, and more.Įach server usually has multiple channels, each of which is dedicated to a different topic or has different rules.įor example, you might have one channel to talk about a game, and another for general chatting, and another for pictures of cats. Servers are filled with text channels (where you can type to talk to other people) and voice channels (where you can voice-chat with others). Each community is called a 'server.' If you're familiar with Slack, you can think of it as a less formal version of that app. At a basic level, Discord is built to allow members to message each other.

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