There are very few online services that I can say I use everyday. Email, search and possibly some entertainment sites are most frequently visited. But if you are looking for an outstanding freemium service, a service that really puts you in the driver's seat when it comes to staying in touch with friends / co-workers or anybody for that matter and improving productivity, look no further than Discord!

Having worked as a digital nomad for years I've tried a lot of products and can honestly say that Discord is one of the best online platforms I've ever used when it comes to networking / communications and content management.

What is Discord and where did it come from?

According to an article published in 2015 in the popular online magazine 'TechCrunch' it has been around for a while...

Jason Citron, who previously founded and sold the early mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, returned to gaming startups with the launch of Discord in May 2015. This voice and text chat app for gamers — a challenger to incumbents like Skype and Teamspeak — has since grown to 25 million registered users, who are sending 100 million messages per day across its platform. Now, Discord is launching its next product: GameBridge, a set of tools that bring voice and text chat to the games themselves.

I would agree that Discord has been labelled a platform for gamers but in reality it has everything you need to operate as a mobile office in a tech-startup company.

I've worked with several organizations who swear by it for several key reasons. One of the best things about it is that its completely free to use at the moment. Although they have plans to sell stickers and add-ons down the road, they intend to keep it free.

Personally, I'd like to thank Jason for making such an outstanding platform. I find it a crucial piece of my company's infrastructure.

Jason Citron

According to a different article published by Business Insider about Discord, it has gone through exponential growth the past few years and many others feel the same.

Meanwhile, Discord is a red-hot app amongst PC gamers, allowing them to chat for free with friends via text or voice no matter what they're playing. From December 2016 to May 2017, Discord went from 25 million users to 45 million, almost doubling in five short months. The company says that growth is still strong.

Discord has a lot of features that will interest people from all walks of life trying to enhance their social networking skills.

In discord you will be required to make a personal account and with that account you can add other users to your list of friends. Beyond that there is functionality to create your own server (company or otherwise), add chat rooms which you can specify permissions on and chat with members via text or voice.

Beyond that you are able to integrate other services like google drive or hackmd.io into your workflow, pasting and pinning links and inserting images and videos into chatrooms and conversations.

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If you don't have a Discord account yet, go to http://www.discordapp.com and make one!

Although there are other services similar to Discord such as Slack and Twitch, in my opinion Discord blows them away completely. Have you used Discord before and if so, how do you like it?

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Source:

Gamer chat app Discord hits 25 million users, can now be used in developers’ own games - TechCrunch

OpenFeint Founder Jason Citron Returns To A Familiar Place With Discord App For Gamers - TechCrunch

This startup is solving a huge problem for over 45 million video gamers, and it's growing like crazy - Business Insider