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Discord updates its bot with ChatGPT-like features, rolls out AI-generated conversation summaries and more
Discord is the latest company to get in on the AI frenzy. The company announced today that it’s launching a set of new AI experiences to a number of servers. Most notably, Discord is updating it
The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out
We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement — not yet, and possibly not ever. Still, there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obs
Gas, Slay, what’s next? Fire?
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Discord acquires Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens
The messaging platform Discord announced its acquisition of Gas, an app that’s popular among teens for its positive spin on social media. On Gas, users sign up with their school, add friends and
Discord opens up paid subscriptions so servers can sell premium perks
After launching premium memberships as a pilot late last year, Discord will now allow more servers to offer paid memberships in exchange for special server-specific perks. Plenty of Discord communitie
Discord users can now link their Crunchyroll accounts
Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has partnered with Discord. Starting today, users will be able to display the movie or TV show they’re currently watching on their Discord profile. Crunchyrol
Discord doubles down on apps to make servers more dynamic
Discord is refreshing its popular chat app with a handful of new features, including one that developers who build tools for the platform have wanted for a long time. The changes seek to make the comm
Discord adds Reddit-like Forum channels for chatting about specific topics
If you’ve ever waded into a new Discord server and immediately been overwhelmed by a fast-scrolling wall of conversation with no obvious entry points, a new feature should make that process a bi
Meta announces Discord-like ‘Community Chats’ on Messenger
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups. The feature allows large Messenger groups to organize chats into categor
As Telegram grows in size, so does crypto traders’ dependence on the app
Some say Telegram is the ultimate hub for communication and information — an imperative place to be in the crypto community.
Is Discord really worth 32% less today than it was last year?
Fidelity recently cut its valuation for its Discord shares. Is that reduction fair?
Discord says Android users won’t be left hanging anymore
Discord announced new measures to bring its Android app into parity with its iOS counterpart today. The changes will improve the app’s experience for Android, which has historically lagged behin
Discord’s new Xbox integration will let you send voice chats to your console
Xbox is adding support for Discord voice chat, bringing a reliable, well-loved universal chat app to Microsoft’s gaming console, albeit in a sort of roundabout way. The new integration is availa
Making sense of the market right now with Danny Rimer of Index Ventures
If you’re feeling confused about the state of startup investing, join the club. Public company shares have been relentlessly hammered in recent months amid rising fears of a recession, yet start
Startups race to build a crypto-native, consumer-friendly messaging platform for web3
There’s no shortage of headlines about the onset of “crypto winter.” Amid a growing pile of bankruptcies, one of the buzziest startups in the business, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, a
Reddit brings GIF comments to the masses
After setting aside the feature as a paid perk, Reddit will now let just about everybody reply with a GIF. Starting today, any safe-for-work and non-quarantined subreddit can opt into enabling GIFs in
Crypto hackers are increasingly phishing for new bait on social media
There was a significant rise in crypto-focused phishing attacks across social media sites in the second quarter, according to a new CertiK report.
Cloudflare fixes outage that knocked popular services offline
Cloudflare said on Tuesday it resolved a “wide-spread” outage earlier in the day that affected a large number of services including FTX, Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN and
Discord gives servers a way to intercept spam and harmful content, will expand premium memberships
Discord is introducing a native way for servers to preemptively detect and block harmful messages and spam. The tool, called AutoMod, is available today and will allow anyone who moderates one of Disc
Daily Crunch: One week after expanding internationally, Dukaan says it has onboarded 1,000+ DTC brands
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