Discord launched a significant refresh of its cellular app on Tuesday, placing messaging front-and-center whereas making a number of small enhancements that customers have been asking for.
Impressed by consumer suggestions, the redesigned app tailors the cellular Discord expertise for on-the-go use in comparison with its common desktop app, whereas altering issues as much as higher manage Discord’s swiss military knife-like suite of social options.
“[In 2015] our focus was on building great products for people who play games on PC, with mobile serving as a companion app for when you were AFK,” Discord Group Product Supervisor Francesco Polizzi wrote in a submit describing the modifications. “Over time, the amount of *stuff* that Discord can do has grown exponentially.”
In modifications rolling out this week, Discord’s outdated navigation buttons are gone, changed with a brand new set of tabs directing cellular customers to Servers, Messages, Notifications and their very own profile. The corporate experimented with a extra horizontal dock-like design however finally saved servers organized in a vertical lefthand column, just like the earlier cellular model and the desktop app. As a result of some folks belong to many, many servers and like to change between them, Discord opted to maintain the traditional format to show as many servers as attainable directly.
Messages now have their very own part of the app, amassing DMs and group DMs in a single place. That’s already a giant enchancment from how the app was organized earlier than and the brand new format additionally provides a standing space on the high, displaying you what buddies are doing in real-time so you’ll be able to hop in and be a part of them. An choice to favourite a selected DM or group DM thread makes the messaging a part of the app work extra like Messages on the iPhone, amassing your most frequent contacts on the high for ease of use.
Clicking via to a channel or a message thread now shows info extra clearly, amassing media, hyperlinks, information and members right into a cleaner, bigger design. Search additionally acquired a significant overhaul and now can return outcomes for messages, attachments, pinned messages and information via a common search bar. Total, lots of the new Discord enhancements echo different message-centric apps, significantly Apple’s personal, optimizing the cellular expertise for the way folks really have a tendency to make use of the app once they’re on the go.
Different enhancements deal with making the app extra vivid visually, together with a revamped profile web page that highlights a few of Discord’s recent focus on custom profiles. Past that, sharing footage and movies appears to be like higher and helps greater file sizes whereas video and voice calls get a model new mobile-friendly UI. To high it off, Discord lastly has a correct evening mode (the “Midnight” theme) and may launch method quicker whereas utilizing 1 / 4 of the info.
