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Published:
May 19, 2020

Discord For Dummies

Overview

Connect with the newest and most vibrant online community

Though it was originally a virtual meeting place primarily for gamers, Discord’s userbase has quintupled in size in just two years and branched to include discussions on a multitude of topics. Discord For Dummies shows readers how to connect with the massive Discord audience, both within and well beyond the gaming niche.

Celebrated writer, broadcaster, gamer, and technologist Tee Morris teaches readers how to set up a profile, establish channels, and join other conversations. Along the way, he’ll show

you how to grow your audience and utilize Discord in your business. You’ll also learn to:

· Play by the rules of Discord, both written and unwritten

· Build a Discord studio

· Create a community

· Acquire must-have accessories

With an audience of over 250,000,000 active users, you can’t afford to ignore the Discord community. Discord For Dummies is perfect for businesses seeking a larger audience, established media looking for a presence in private chat, and groups looking to organize their communication.

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About The Author

Tee Morris is a writer, broadcaster, and cutting-edge technologist. An early adopter of using social media to reach audiences for his sci-fi and fantasy novels, he continues to blog, podcast, and stream content of all kinds. He's the author of Twitch For Dummies and co-author of Podcasting For Dummies.

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CHEAT SHEET

The idea behind the Cheat Sheet is to give you a quick shortcut on what you may want to jump into, research further, or implement straight away when getting started on Discord. The Cheat Sheet is also a quick reminder of details you may want within reach like “What can I integrate with my Discord?” or “What were those tips on interviewing guests?

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The idea behind the Cheat Sheet is to give you a quick shortcut on what you may want to jump into, research further, or implement straight away when getting started on Discord. The Cheat Sheet is also a quick reminder of details you may want within reach like “What can I integrate with my Discord?” or “What were those tips on interviewing guests?
The Beatles were right when it comes to the importance of friends. They do help you get by, but you have to connect with them first in Discord. Friends are people on Discord who directly connect with you. They do not necessarily have to be on your Discord server. Making that connection usually happens through an invitation.
It may not seem like a big deal having the ability to format text in your Discord posts, but there are some real advantages to taking those extra seconds to drop in a few characters and add emphasis to your text messages. This extra touch from Discord is one way that the platform wants to help you get your message across as best as you can in a non-verbal, non-visual medium.
You might have a server set up on solid foundation, but things are quiet because no one on Discord, or anywhere else for that matter, knows your server is live. This is where you start sending out invitations and begin to build your online community. Although it is great to open your world to everyone, and big communities always offer up a lot of fun for you and your fellow chatters, opening your server up to everyone and anyone can sometimes attract trolls.
The best way to learn is to watch others do what you want to do. To understand how all these connections work you need to take a look at other communities to see how they run things. No two Discord servers are alike, and you will want to learn from others so that you know how this platform works.So how do we join Discord servers?
Your first to-do item with this new platform is to set yourself up on Discord first. Again, it does not cost a thing for you to do this, apart from time. There are a lot of flavors of Discord. You can use the communications app: Through a browser As a stand-alone desktop application On your smartphone or tablet 1.
Under the App Settings section of your User Account settings, you get into the nuts and bolts of how everything works here. What are you using for audio and video inputs? How do you want Discord to look? How do you want to be notified on new interactions and when? You set up all this here. There is a lot to customize in Discord, and this is all part of the experience in making this platform feel like a place you want to spend a lot of time on with friends.
Discord respects how important identity is. When communicating online, you want to make a good first impression, and you want your Discord to feel warm, inviting, and (more important) lived in. But when sharing information and data, you want to know exactly what you’re sharing and how you’re sharing it. It’s as if in the age being social with our social media, we are grappling with this weird sense of paranoia.
A popular social media platform for gamers, content creators, and community managers is one of the original three: Twitter. Maybe you already have a presence on Twitter, or maybe you have a Twitter account and have stepped away from it for whatever reason. If you are on Discord, it is a good idea to be up on your tweeting skills.
When starting off with a platform as robust, as multi-layered, and as versatile as Discord, you quickly realize that just downloading Discord is the first step. You might notice other Discord servers have a better sound, sharper video, and a better handle on the capabilities beyond text communication. That’s because those servers have made investments in ways other than time and attention.
Perhaps the trickiest thing to do right off the bat is define Discord. On the surface, it looks and sounds like Skype on steroids, but it’s a robust, stable communications platform available as a browser application, a stand-alone desktop application, and a mobile app for both smartphones and tablets. Discord offers the following features: Text chat Audio and video chat (group and private) Private text messaging News feeds Link and media sharing Streaming and screen sharing Discord provides gamers, streamers, and many other creative individuals and organizations an all-encompassing platform for topic-specific chat streams, private audio channels and open public chats, interviews for podcasts and streams, and much more.
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