Discord has taken the gaming world by storm. Here’s how to start using the popular messaging tool.
Discord has grown to become the most popular communication app for gamers, allowing you to text, have voice or video calls, and even screen share while you play games. If you and the squad want to stay synced while dropping in hot during a game of Apex Legends, Discord gives you that real-time communication you need. Better yet, it’s free!
But there’s more to Discord than just chatting. Here are some tips to help you use Discord, stay secure, streamline your communication, and more.
Join or create Discord servers
In Discord, you can create or join servers. Servers, which you can create or join for free, are spaces for communities or groups of friends to get together and hang out.
To join someone’s Discord server, you can search for it in Discord itself, or you can access it directly if you have a link to the server. (Here’s PCWorld’s Discord server for our Full Nerd Podcast, for example.) To search for a Discord group, open the Discord app on either your desktop or mobile device and click the Explore Public Servers button in the left-hand pane.
Someone that’s already in the Discord server that you’re wanting to join may send a link to you, as well. If you have access to this link, you can join the server immediately.
To create your own server, you can click the Add a Server button in the left-hand pane of the Discord app.
