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Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam
22.12.2021
Justin Kan, a co-founder of Twitch and the dude Justin.TV was named for, last week decided to launch a site called Fractal, which would be a ‘marketplace’ where in-game items could be bought and sold as NFTs. Later, in Fractal’s Discord server, a link appeared advertising a drop of 3333 NFTs....
World Of Warcraft Turmoil Around Sudden Appearance Of People Of Color Is Surprisingly Complex
18.12.2021
An unofficial World of Warcraft Discord server has been lit ablaze in recent days. Right now, Twitter is full of screenshots showing people decrying Blizzard adding people of color to the MMORPG, with one particular comment complaining about how there are “too many Black humans in Stormwind.” This...
Discord Server Gets Over 1,000,000 Members For The First Time Ever
9.12.2021
For the first time ever, a Discord server has attracted over one million members, with the platform’s official Snowsgiving 2021 hitting the milestone earlier today.Read more
Exploit Allows Hackers to Siphon $120 Million From Defi Protocol Badgerdao
2.12.2021
The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called Badgerdao has disclosed that it has “received reports of unauthorized withdrawals of user funds.” The analytics team Peckshield estimates that over $120 million was siphoned in the Badgerdao breach. Badgerdao Suffers $120 Million...
Bloktopia co-founder aspires to build a metaverse with 'hundreds of the best crypto projects'
19.11.2021
In an exclusive ask-me-anything session with Cointelegraph Markets Pro on Discord, Carroll discussed virtual real estate sales, roadmaps, tokenomics, and more regarding the upcoming Bloktopia Metaverse
Discord drops Ethereum and NFT integration plans after backlash
12.11.2021
While Jason Citron said the NFT feature was in “pre-release” mode, he has now changed his tune after being bombarded with thousands of comments calling on him to drop the plans
Discord's Hints About Crypto, NFTs Are Tearing Its Community Apart
9.11.2021
The CEO of Discord recently teased that the world’s largest gaming chat platform could potentially support cryptocurrency wallets. This has led many users to be nervous that their Nitro (a paid Discord service) subscriptions could be used to fund the scammy NFT ecosystem in the future. The teaser...
Twitch Streamers' Lives Are About To Get Much Better, Thanks To This Chat Change
27.9.2021
Twitch streamers may soon be able to restrict who can or cannot hop into the chat. According to Twitch observer Zach Bussey, the streaming giant is planning on adding expanded features that would allow streamers to require phone or email verification from the commentariat.Read more
Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord
16.9.2021
A few days ago Eurogamer closed their forums, bringing to an end over 20 years of community discussion. The site explained the move like sites and companies always do, and it made sense the way it always does, but that doesn’t mean the process itself isn’t something that sucks.Read more
YouTube Kills Two Big Discord Music Bots, And That Sucks
13.9.2021
Today, the popular video streaming service YouTube committed a murder most foul. Two stalwart members of any Discord server worth its salt, stolen away from us in the night. Groovy and Rythm are dead, and I will mourn my beautiful robot companions with all of my heart.Read more
Twitch Sues ‘Hate Raid’ Organizers
10.9.2021
Twitch is taking a big stand against the organized harassment campaigns, widely known as “hate raids,” that have proliferated over the past few months by filing a suit against two possible coordinators of the attacks.Read more
The Hottest JRPG Of The Moment Is Being Developed By A 22 Year Old
26.8.2021
Most musical games are rhythm games, popular examples include titles such as Guitar Hero, Beat Saber, and Dance Dance Revolution. However, Sword of Symphony turned that genre expectation on its head. It’s a stylish music-action roleplaying game that uses combat to compose music, meaning that...
Genshin Impact's Official Discord Hit Its Max User Capacity Forcing Devs To Create A Second Server
31.7.2021
I knew Genshin Impact was a popular game. I also knew it had a ton of active and ravenous players who can’t get enough of the free-to-play online RPG. But I had no idea it was so popular that it was pushing Discord to its limits and forcing the devs to start a second server for everyone.Read more
How To Buy A PS5 Or Xbox Series X/S
20.7.2021
Trying to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 or one of Microsoft’s next-gen consoles—the Xbox Series X and the smaller, less-powerful Xbox Series S—remains a fool’s errand. Stock sells out as soon as it becomes available. When it pops up from unofficial retailers, it does so with a staggering...
Discord Buys AI Company To Combat A Big Problem: Harassment
14.7.2021
It wasn’t all that long ago that Discord housed some of the internet’s most noxious groups, including white supremacist communities like The Daily Stormer. Since the Charlottesville rally in 2017, however, the chat platform has worked toward slowly but surely cleaning up the mess. But as Discord...
GameStop's New Discord Haunted By Gamers, Stonk Bros
7.7.2021
GameStop decided to meet the gamers where they live today, opening a new Discord server where thousands are coming together under the enriching banner of a video game retailer. The community launched without a filter, as evidenced by a torrent of the n-word flooding chat on Tuesday night....
Sony Plans To 'Integrate' Discord With PlayStation
3.5.2021
Sony Interactive Entertainment has invested a minority stake in the popular communication app Discord, SIE president Jim Ryan announced today in a blog post. The companies plan to “bring the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year.” Read...
Report: Microsoft No Longer In Talks To Buy Discord
20.4.2021
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was in exclusive talks to acquire Discord. Today, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, those talks are off.Read more
Discord Blocks All iOS Users From Accessing NSFW Servers
13.4.2021
If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more limited.Read more
Discord Deleted Thousands Of Violent Extremist And Criminal Servers In 2020
6.4.2021
Thanks to the endlessly depressing extent to which covid has kept everybody trapped inside, Discord is more relevant than ever. But as the company revealed in its latest transparency report, that has led to new challenges—and improved efforts to confront other challenges it probably should have...