The new Discord features make online conventions more enjoyable.
Discord, the popular chat client, is making some changes in 2021. Among these changes are threaded conversations, better ways to discover new communities, and paid tickets to allow creators a new source of income.
Stage Channels are a less chaotic version of a Discord group chat; only a few select people have the ability to talk freely, and everyone else in the channel is the audience. Audience members can queue up to take part in an organized Q&A, or just enjoy the show. It’s a feature similar to the Clubhouse app, which has lately been imitated across other social media platforms.
Discord’s next new feature is Stage Discovery, a tab in the Discord client. Users can click it to see active stages, and join the host community from there. A feature that allows hosts to sell tickets to their stages is currently in private beta, with no confirmed release date.
Threads — the ability to create a nested conversation under one specific message — will also arrive to Discord this summer. Threads are great to explore random tangents without derailing the main conversation, or to host a spoiler-filled conversation.
