peakmaker

I have finished interning at Discord for the summer! I've had a great time building long-awaited features for bots, as well as various other updates. however, I'm excited to announce that I'm staying on at Discord in a part-time role while I finish college! (1/2)

ig bluesky has reached the size where it is not possible for a platform to have good moderation

yesterday, I released our second set of new modal components: text displays (with markdown!), user selects, role selects, mentionable selects, and channel selects! now you can use even more components previously restricted to messages to create powerful modals.

remember to come watch the Modal Components event in Discord Developers in an hour and a half! I'll be presenting what I've been working on this summer!

interesting that Bluesky calls bookmarks "saved posts". when we were building bookmarks at Discord, we considered calling them "saved messages", but we went with "bookmarks" because we thought "saved" might imply that it will store a copy even if the original message gets edited/deleted

on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific, come watch the Discord Developers event where I'm presenting our new modal components! we might have some surprises in store for you 👀 discord.gg/discord-deve...

I've been working on modal components all summer, and I'm really excited to release the first piece of this: string select and label components in modals! You can finally put select menus in your bot's modals, and give more information with field descriptions!

wild @bart.gov ride today. a 1 train trip turned into a 4 train trip due to track problems

in addition to 5Xing the pin limit, we've also added a Pin Messages permission! you can now give non-mods the ability to pin 📌 and we made a video too youtu.be/0dNvgOOeSYs

imagine a place where modals have select menus

swipe to member list is back! if you want it, update the Discord app to version 290 and then change the swipe option in chat settings. I'll stick with the default swipe-to-reply though

I've updated the GIF picker on desktop and mobile to load GIFs faster, using newer formats! we now prefer WebP over raw GIF and WebM over MP4. we've seen dramatic improvements to loading speeds and bandwidth usage from this change!

we've shipped some cool updates to rich presence! now devs can choose which field they want to show as the status in the member list: name, details, or state. we also now support setting links for details, state, and images.

yesterday we increased the pin limit from 50 to 250, everywhere! this has been in the works for a long time and I'm glad that it's finally shipped - no more need to carefully decide which memes to unpin in the group chat!

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

this has been my first week back as an intern at Discord! this summer I'm focusing on building features for bots and apps - really excited to deliver updates that the bot dev community has been asking for!

Discord is working on a Windows on ARM app 🥳 An early ARM64 dev build is available for testers, and Discord has confirmed it will support Windows on ARM soon. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/692551/...

the Discord Developers Introduction to Social SDK event is starting now (again)! discord.gg/discord-deve...

Google vs Google

the Discord Developers Introduction to Social SDK event is starting now! and yeah there's a GCP outage so some stuff is broken discord.gg/discord-deve...

bluesky devs: looks like bsky is 429ing for the Discord unfurler, so embeds aren't working discord.com/developers/e...

📢 App Version 1.103 is rolling out now Share posts via DMs or other apps! There’s now a “Share” button on every post so you can quickly send them to friends.

the Discord Developers Deep Dive into Message Components event is starting now! discord.gg/discord-deve...

#Andor is so good. peak Star Wars

Discord is introducing a new currency that pays users to interact with ads. Discord Orbs are now in beta testing, letting users earn free Nitro credits by playing interactive ads www.theverge.com/news/675481/...

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the Discord Developers Platform Updates event is starting in 5 minutes! discord.gg/discord-deve...

wow a lot of misinformation spreading through bluesky today

Discord is working on redesigning the full profile modal to show more info on the screen at once

bro who is Gordon

#Thunderbolts is incredible

Discord is working on a new Play tab in the mobile app, featuring Activities

big deal at work today!! really hoping for the best. working with jason has honestly been a bit of a dream come true given he built what was one of my favorite iOS games back in high school, and i’m going to miss his presence as CEO.

After a long long effort I have finally achieved my goal of providing apps on Discord a stronger set of components to build rich, flexible UIs with. It's been a long time coming. You can checkout the new components on our developer docs: discord.com/developers/d...

Discord has released Components V2, letting bots send much more flexible rich UIs in their messages!

2% of Discord Nitro users can now set DM wallpapers!

Great news: Discord now supports embeds with multiple images on iOS! They'll work in all the same places where they already do on desktop, including Bluesky. Grab the latest version of the app to try it out!

New Discord mobile protip: you can now tap on text in `backticks` to copy it! Put `backticks` around things like ID numbers, flight numbers, and other information you want to be easy to copy on mobile. For phone numbers and email addresses, you can use <angle brackets> instead, and they'll linkify!

Discord is adding support for creating and managing stickers on mobile!

5% of users now have swiping to the member list again. if you want to switch back to swipe-to-reply, you can change it in Chat settings also, another 5% of users are temporarily in a test group that disables swiping completely. hang in there, it should come back soon tm

oh pog, bluesky hover cards work on touchscreen laptops now! thanks @bas.sh github.com/bluesky-soci...

just spent over half an hour trying to figure out why Docker wasn't starting, turns out a WSL update broke it so I had to downgrade to WSL 2.4. pain

based on feedback, Discord is trying some tweaks to the UI update, including: • making the server icons larger • making the server list darker than the channel list • making the title bar smaller

bluesky needs native polls

the Discord desktop UI refresh is out! the updated UI is more customizable, has new darker themes, and lets you resize the channel list. I've been using it for months, and it feels much nicer than the old UI once you get used to it.

Good news: Bluesky embeds on Discord are now better than ever! You'll now see functional mentions, hashtags, and other links, and replies will be tagged as such.

Will be at GDC this week if you wanna chat games - especially if you're interested in our new Social SDK or building games Discord Activities.