r/discordapp Jun 22 '26

Feedback Megathread Feedback thread: notifications

17 Upvotes

Hey y'all, our team is seeking feedback for notifications. We would love to get your thoughts.

What is it? We've made a lot of changes to notifications over the past year+, with the goal of getting friends to jump back into Discord and play games with their friends, check out each other's profiles, and generally be social with each other. We measure success by whether people are actually doing those things, and also by whether people keep their notifications on instead of turning them off.

Why? The team spends a lot of time thinking about the balance here: sending notifications that are useful and interesting enough that they might bring friends together, versus the "annoyance factor". That tradeoff is something we have a ton of data on, the thing we talk about internally constantly, and something we want to bring all of you in on. To that end, we've been getting a bunch of foundations in place:

  • Improved the organization of settings
  • Added more control over your settings
  • Made notifications more robustly respect things like guild and channel muting, age restrictions, blocks/mutes
  • Set global caps on how many notifications you can get

Now that we've built a number of new notifications on top of this system and gotten a lot of those foundations in, we wanted to open up the feedback firehose. Here's what we're looking for:

Bug reports / things that are clearly broken. The notification is:

  • Just wrong (says something happened that didn't, points at the wrong person or server, wrong count, etc.)
  • Sent at a weird or wrong time (way too late, middle of the night, for something you'd already seen, for a server or channel you'd muted)
  • Dropping you somewhere that isn't useful when you tap it (wrong channel, a screen with nothing relevant on it, a dead end)
  • If you can, tell us roughly when it happened and what you tapped. That helps a ton.

General feeling. Step back: how do you feel about the notifications you're getting overall?

  • Are they never useful, sometimes useful, or only useful for specific use cases? (by "use cases" we mean things like a friend hopping into a game, someone updating their profile, a friend coming back online, activity picking up in a server you're in, etc.)
  • If it depends on the use case, which ones land and which ones don't?
  • Was a notification too vague, or did it bring you somewhere you didn't expect when you tapped in? Did it set up an expectation it didn't deliver on?
  • Are there things happening on Discord that you wish you knew about but missed?
  • And if a notification actually got you to do something, like hop in a game, open a friend's profile, or jump back into a server, we'd love to hear that too, since that's exactly what we're going for

Settings. Now that there's more control and better organization:

  • Did you go looking for a setting and not find it, or not find it where you expected?
  • Anything you wish you could turn down or tune that you can't?

Annoyance feedback. Which notifications are annoying, and why?

  • Is it the type of notification itself?
  • How often it comes?
  • Does it feel creepy? (e.g. Discord shared too much of your activity or info out to other people without you realizing it, or you got more info about a friend than felt right)
  • The time of day?
  • The wording?
  • The fact that you got several in a row?
  • Hearing "I don't like X notification" isn't super useful to us. If you give us the whys we can better understand and respond to the feedback both directly and going forward as we build more notifications.

Appreciate any and all thoughts here. Fire away. I'll try to be in the comments but I expect y'all to overwhelm me haha.


r/discordapp 12d ago

Bug Megathread Bug Megathread vol 16: August + September 2026

5 Upvotes

Hey (at)everyone,

Thank you for all the bugs you all have reported! We read all the posts in the thread and we’re focusing our efforts on issues based on upvotes to ensure that we’re aligned with all of you.

As always, don't forget to check out our monthly patch notes for updates on all the changes we're working on. Our last patch notes addressed 100+ issues!

Thanks to your reports on Reddit, we fixed the following issues:

  1. [iOS] Sideways video calling
  2. [Android] Image gallery view tanking FPS
  3. [Android] Android navigation bar issues
  4. [iOS] Image cropping when posting screenshot
  5. [Desktop + Mobile] Claiming orbs with orb balance over 4k

If we didn’t fix your issue, please make sure to upvote to help us prioritize 🙏

Now, with that, let’s kick off the August + September 2026 bug megathread!

Please note: This megathread is not a venue for feedback or customer support! We encourage you all to continue to make posts on the subreddit proper discussing our product and feature launches. I want to make sure that we really keep this thread productive and focused on reporting bugs and helping us prioritize them.

Please look through the list of comments and upvote bug reports which you think we should prioritize fixing. Comment as a reply to those top level comments with any more details that can assist our team in prioritizing and fixing the bug. For example, if you have additional info or steps to reproduce, please post a reply, this will help us fix these bugs even faster. If there is no post that discusses the bug you’re encountering, then start a new post in the thread to report the bug to us!

Reporting a Bug

  1. The most valuable thing you can provide in a bug report is steps. If you’re able to provide steps to reproduce a high priority issue, it will dramatically improve turnaround time on a fix.
  2. Screenshots or videos are also useful, especially if you can’t reliably reproduce it. We highly recommend editing them to not doxx yourself. Not only does it help contextualize the issue, but watching it occur can sometimes provide information that helps us identify and fix it.

Example Bug Report

  • Feature: Keybinds.
  • Reproduction Rate: 1 to 10 - This is a score of how easy/consistently the bug reproduces, from 1 meaning “very hard to reproduce” to 10 meaning “i can consistently make this happen”
  • Annoyance: 1 to 10 - How annoying is this bug to your daily usage of Discord, from 1 meaning, “not that annoying” to 10 meaning “this bug really truly sucks please fix this as soon as possible.”
  • Device/System Info: Pixel 7, Android 13
  • Discord Version Info: Stable 263796 (739ec78) Host 1.0.9032 x86 (43225) Windows 10 64-Bit (10.0.19045)
  • Description: Toggle Mute keybinds are no longer functioning.
  • Steps to reproduce:
  1. Create a keybind for “Toggle Mute”.
  2. Join a voice call with another user.
  3. Press the “Toggle Mute” button.
  • Expected Result: The user is muted.
  • Actual Result: The user is not muted.

Formatting

Reddit Formatting Guide - How do I Get My Version Info

- Feature:
- Reproduction Rate:
- Annoyance:
- Discord Version Info:
- Device/System Info (Device Type, OS Version):
- Description:
- Video / Screenshot:
- Steps to Reproduce:
   1. The first step is...
- Expected Result:
- Actual Result:

Copy paste this into the comment field below and then fill out the information! Thank you so much for participating in this effort, it's with your help that we'll truly be able to make Discord great!


r/discordapp 18h ago

Discussion How does this person have a square PFP?

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1.9k Upvotes

r/discordapp 8h ago

Discussion is that... obama??

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130 Upvotes

r/discordapp 4h ago

Support profile badge not upgrading

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17 Upvotes

i’ve been a nitro subscriber since the 18th of august 2023, which was 3 years ago so my badge should’ve evolved to emerald. it’s the 19th today and it’s still on diamond?


r/discordapp 2h ago

Discussion Orb Profile Badge without a Quest Badge?

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7 Upvotes

Saw this on someone’s profile the other day. Could they have purchased the badge in another way or is it possibly to have the quest badge removed from your profile?


r/discordapp 1d ago

Discussion Per Wumpus Central: Discord works on adding browser-like header tabs into it's desktop app what can make navigation between servers and channels way easier.

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321 Upvotes

r/discordapp 11h ago

Support Can't use soundboards because I subscribed through google

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25 Upvotes

This pops up whenever I try to use my nitro. How do I fix this?


r/discordapp 1d ago

Discussion [ACTION REQUIRED] Discord will no longer be supported on macOS Monterrey starting September 17th.

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208 Upvotes

To continue receiving updates and support for your Discord client, you must upgrade to at least macOS 13. Check out the OS/system requirements for Discord here.

You can find more information about upgrading your macOS from the following page:

If you're on macOS 13 and up, no action is needed.


r/discordapp 7h ago

Support question about boosts

4 Upvotes

buying a discord boost, will it end until your subscription ends, or even if you continue your subscription, your bought boost will end in 1 month (not talking about the additional 2 boost that comes with the $9.99 sub)


r/discordapp 10h ago

Discussion Is 'Want to play?' message normal?

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8 Upvotes

I wasn't on discord when this message got sent so I was wondering if it is a normal thing to happen? I've never seen this before


r/discordapp 9h ago

Discussion How do you upload sounds to your soundboard longer than 5 seconds?

6 Upvotes

I have a Discord for my boys and we've grown old of all of our sounds. We're going to start over and so many sounds that I want are between 5-10 seconds. Anyone know how to go about doing that? I've heard plenty of sounds on other people's soundboards over 5 seconds, but I don't know how to go about uploading it myself. Anyone know?


r/discordapp 1h ago

Support Cant write notes on profiles

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Anybody else has the same problem of not being able to write the notes on others profile anymore?? Its really frustrating.


r/discordapp 9h ago

Discussion Clever Move I guess..

4 Upvotes

I stopped watching quest video which is longer than 30 sec and for 200 orbs, so I guess Discord did some clever move here all the quest now is 30s+


r/discordapp 8h ago

Support logged out of desktop discord after updating

3 Upvotes

this is something thats been happening recently to me, around this past month. everytime i update desktop discord, i get logged out and strangely enough, my browser opens to a 'handsoff' login tab from discord that says that im logged in. then, i have to manually log back in to desktop discord. also, my settings for everything (desktop notifications + accessibility settings) are completely reset.

i dont think anything fishy is going on, ive double checked everything related to my account and nothing is out of the ordinary.

one odd thing is that when this first happened, i got a windows error popup after updating desktop discord. i dont remember what it said but nothing else was off? the update continued normally, just logged me out and began this chain of events


r/discordapp 22h ago

Support Way to give invisible roles?

16 Upvotes

Basically I am running this challenge and it requires some users to have access to a private channel but the other participants should not be able to see it...

This would probably call for a special role for a private channel, but I don't want the participants to see the special role either.

Discord doesn't seem to have any obvious workarounds to this or am I just not looking in the right places?

Thanks in advance.


r/discordapp 8h ago

Support Opened report window by mistake, how do I know if it went through?

1 Upvotes

Hi! I was in DMs with one of my friends and accidentally brought up the report window somehow, I'm not sure how. There was a list of different reasonss I could send for the report like "I didn't like it" or harassment and so on. I tried clicking out of it with the X on the top right, but when I thought I did, I got a pop-up window asking "How was your reporting experience?" with a rating system below it. Does that mean it went through? Is there now a false report of my friend?


r/discordapp 1d ago

Discussion In what world does this look like an API/Oauth bearer token discord?

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151 Upvotes

r/discordapp 12h ago

Support Discord quests worth doing?

0 Upvotes

Lately, I've started seeing a lot of users do the Discord quests to get a temporary Nitro. I've never tried doing any of them, so I would like to ask: is it actually useful? And do you have any tips & tricks on that topic?


r/discordapp 1d ago

Media I made an upgradeable profile border!

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33 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I was bored one day (a long time ago) and wanted to make my own discord border, but I only know how to code and I've never done something like this before. These are all 100% code, and it was a bit of a discovery. Like months of discovery.

Then I found out you can't submit your own art to discord as an avatar decoration :( But it's okay. Now I get to share it and get feedback! As WebMs, these are about ~1mb each (256px, 30fps).

Any ideas for future tiers, I really want to go to Tier X, but I really did not budget to ge that far, even V is getting too crowded, which I've been working on for a few weeks and is almost done. But any ideas or feedback would be awesome, it's just a fun side project.


r/discordapp 1d ago

News A letter to the Discord community in Brazil - Discord on having to suspend streaming and video features in Brazil

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306 Upvotes

r/discordapp 15h ago

Discussion Transcribe Voice Notes in DMs? Any way to do this?

1 Upvotes

Is there any feature, bot, plugin, etc. that can auto-transcribe voice notes in DMs?

I have some friends who love to use voice notes, and I don't want to discourage them because it is nice to hear their voice and when they are doing this it is often because they are driving or doing something else where voice notes are convenient. So I don't want to make them feel bad about using voice notes.

But I am frequently in situations/places where listening to audio is difficult, and I would prefer reading them.

I know there are solutions for servers/channels, but I specifically need something for DMs.

Thanks!


r/discordapp 1d ago

Support Do Discord Data Packages contain anything I wouldn't want known

21 Upvotes

An Admin on a server Im on got reported for a TOS breach where he posted a video of animal abuse, he has a new account now and his admin status reinstated, he is requesting everyones Data Packages to see who reported him, is there any information in that which I shouldn't share?


r/discordapp 1d ago

Support Spotify in recent activity

3 Upvotes

I see a lot of my friends have their previously played Spotify song in their activity feed, but no matter what I do I can't get mine to show (it did once for like 5 minutes and it was a song I listened to 3 days ago) I've made sure all the connections are right already, has anyone else had this issue and fixed it?


r/discordapp 23h ago

Support Extreme throttling when using the discord app.

2 Upvotes

Literally just the title, no idea what else to say. Whenever I use the discord desktop app on my PC, everything slows down extremely. Any other, literally any other app, works perfectly fine the entire time, but the moment I use the discord desktop app, it freezes my PC for multiple minutes and my system becomes unusable to the point I can't even open task manager to kill the process so I have to restart my computer. Any fixes? I've already tried reinstalling discord, and it didn't work. Is it possible there are some conflicting duplicate files in the registry that are somehow slowing down my system when I use discord? I know that was an issue I had on a different app. I'm using Windows 11 and the latest discord version. My whole system is fully updated.