Discord: Last News

Xbox‘s next update have been shared in a post to Xbox Wire, including direct Discord streaming, variable refresh rate improvements and more.“We heard that you wanted more Discord features! Starting this week, you can stream gameplay directly from your Xbox to your Discord friends,” Kristen Mann, principal group product manager of Xbox Experiences, said in the announcement.Players are able to enter voice channels in their Discord servers directly from their console as long as they’ve linked their account in the app first. Then, pressing the Xbox button on the controller will open the parties and chats part of the guide.Once Discord and the specific server that they want to stream to is selected, Mann encouraged players to try out the new feature to show off Starfield, which is out on PC and Xbox Series X|S today (September 6).Moving on, the update will add new options for variable refresh rate (or VRR).

Twitch and Discord will be investigated for the role they played in the recent racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo.Last night (May 19) James announced the investigation saying that both social media platforms will be individually evaluated, as well as the “months” of online posts from the perpetrator. 4chan and 8chan – which were also used by the killer to plan his attack – will also be included.On May 14, the shooting’s perpetrator travelled to a Buffalo supermarket to carry out the attack, which he live streamed the first two minutes of before it was eventually removed by Twitch.

Discord bot have responded to concerns after users saw it advertised, among other bots used on the platform.Yesterday (January 29), a Twitter user named Snowy shared that the Carl-bot and FredBoat server bots were pushing another called Piggy on Discord. Both the Discord bots had Piggy listed under the “playing a game” tab, although as of publication, this has been removed.Users were concerned about how the Piggy bot allows currency earned through the activities it presents on Discord to be exchanged for cryptocurrency.

Google has filed a cease and desist against the creator of Groovy, a popular music bot on the voice messaging service Discord.Groovy allowed Discord users to add music to the platform’s chat rooms. Users could install Groovy on a server, add YouTube links to its command centre and then play them for everyone else in the chat room to hear.

Discord is testing a threads feature that would allow conversations to take place in a sidebar.Discord servers can be hard to follow when multiple messages are referencing each other all in one channel. To help combat this, Discord has begun internal testing on Threads.TechRadar got a first look at the system and shared a video of it in use.