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Discord’s turning the focus back to games with a new redesign

Discord is going back to its roots.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. This year, Discord will make some changes to the app that will let users reach their conversations faster, as well as improve the reliability of its voice, video, and streaming technology. As the covid pandemic increased the need for messaging platforms like Discord, the company wanted to become a more general chat app that allowed users to “spend quality time with people, whether catching up, learning something, or sharing ideas.”

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