As of February 2024, users between the ages of 25 to 34 years accounted for the biggest share of Discord.com users worldwide, making up over 53.4 percent of the platform's audience. Younger users between 16 and 24 years made up 20.6 percent of the Discord user base. Discord is a gamers-friendly group communication platform launched in 2015. In the first quarter of 2022, over 66 percent of users on Discord were men.

How many people are registered on Discord?

Between May 2017 and June 2020, the gaming chat app increased its registered user number from 45 million to over 300 million. In comparison, approximately 150 million Discord users were active on the platform every month in September 2021. According to surveys conducted among messenger users in July 2022, 14 percent of respondents in the United States, as well as 10 percent of respondents in the United Kingdom reported engaging with Discord.

A gamers-first communication platform Discord is a social and voice-over-internet platform (VoIP) that was tailor-made to answer the needs of online gamers. The platform, which was launched in 2015, allows users to join or create their communities (called ‘servers’) in which they can add specific channels for voice, video, and text communication. Having seen its origins, it does not come as a surprise that over six in 10 Discord users listed technology and gaming as their main interests. Additionally, the most popular servers on the platforms are dedicated to popular online games Valorant and Apex Legend, with 950 thousand and 740 thousand members in August 2022.

Discord Inc. While Discord has not released its revenue numbers, the company has secured almost one billion U.S. dollars in funding across 16 rounds as of March 2022. In April 2021, Discord was offered 12 billion U.S. dollars from Microsoft, but rejected the offer and has been estimated to be looking to enter the public market in the next years. The platform’s business model does not include online advertising, as Discord monetizes exclusively by direct user subscriptions to its premium product Discord Nitro. In 2021, Discord generated 95 million U.S. dollars in revenues from its mobile app alone.

In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately 563 million registered users, up by over 87 percent compared to the 300 million users reported in June 2020. Between 2017 and 2020, users registering to join the popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media Discord grew from 45 million to approximately 300 million. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is known to be a gamers-first online space and community hosting platform, as it allows users to communicate both via chat and voice channels, as well as live stream gaming sessions.

In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately 154 million monthly active users (MAU), up by three percent compared to the 150 million users registered as of September 2021. In 2020, the year in which Discord started onboarding new users eager to communicate due to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Discord counted an estimated 100 million MAU. Discord's monthly active users were reported to grow by 50 million between 2020 and 2021, while estimates for 2022 and 2023 appear to show a slowing growth trend. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media where users can create thematic or regional-based groups, called servers.

During the third quarter of 2024, around 66.3 percent of Discord users were men. By comparison, women using the communication and social media platform were approximately 32.6 percent. In 2023, it was estimated that there were 19 million active servers on Discord.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that seven percent of Hispanic used voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times per day. Around six percent of Black respondents reported engaging with Discord multiple times a day, while three percent reported engaging with the platform once per week.

Social and VoIP platform Discord was launched in 2015 as a gamers-friendly communication platform, but it also acquired popularity among non-gaming audiences in recent years. The platform allows users to create or join thematic communities called servers, and as of April 2024, the Midjourney server was the most popular community on Discord, with over 19.9 million members. Midjourney is an AI-powered text-to-image tool, which is accessible via a Discord bot on the official Discord server of the program. The second most popular Discord server was LimeWire, with 2.3 million members.

Not just a gamers’ space: Discord for communities While gaming servers are still among the most popular online spaces on the platform – with communities such as Valorant and the official Genshin Impact server amassing almost one million users respectively as of the beginning of 2023 – Discord is also a space for several different communities to come together. Educational servers, which have been growing on the platform since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, range from language learning to hacking and programming, with the server “English” counting over 612 thousand Discord users, and the server for Python counting 368.5 thousand users, respectively. Cross-platform communities include online spaces in which users share content from other social media, such as affiliated Reddit servers and TikTok-based communities. As of January 2023, TikTok videos and TikTok Zone were the most popular music servers on Discord, with 684 thousand and 565 thousand registered resharing content from the popular social video platform.

Discord servers: the challenge of providing self-managed online spaces As Discord is composed by both public and private groups, moderating servers and enforcing the company’s Terms of Services represents a challenge. According to Discord, 15 percent of the company’s employees are assigned to safety and moderation. However, servers on the platform are also moderated in their day-to-day activity by volunteer moderators. While Discord has repeatedly reported they do not have access to the four billion messages users exchange daily on the platform, in 2017 the company attracted global attention when it was revealed that it was used by alt-right groups in the United States to plan and organize the “Unite the Right 2.0” rally in Virginia, which culminated with a terroristic attack that left one dead and several wounded. Since then, Discord has engaged in several campaigns to remove servers classified as promulgating violent extremism: during the third quarter of 2022, 483 servers were proactively removed from the platform due to violent extremism by the company’s safety and moderation team, while 570 servers were reactively removed after users’ report.

According to a survey of Discord users conducted during the fourth quarter of 2021, over 60 percent of respondents reported being interested in technology, and almost the same amount of respondents reported being interested in gaming. Approximately half of the participants reported being interested in computers and coding. Additionally, 50 percent of respondents reported being interested in science. Launched in 2015, Discord is an online communication and social platform that allows users to search and join thematic communities based on their personal interests.

Communication platform Discord is a VoIP and social platform that allows users to chat, engage in video and voice calls, as well as create dedicated communities for users to interact with their topic of choice. The platform took off in 2015 among the gaming community first, but has been increasingly used to engage with educational communities. As of April 2024, the most popular education server on Discord was English, with 642 thousand users. Sui, which hosts a community to exchange information on the blockchain platform, ranked second with 636 thousand members.

Communication platform Discord is a VoIP and social media that was launched in 2015 and became popular among gamer communities first. As of April 2024, the most popular education server on Discord was Midjourney, a community created around AI-powered text-to-image tool, with over 19.9 million members. The Discord server LimeWire ranked second, gathering around 2.3 million members, while Leonardo.Ai used to create art and realistic images ranked third with 1.8 million members.

According to a survey of Discord users conducted in April 2023 in the United States, 50 percent of Discord users reported that they were not using Twitter before the platform was purchased by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk in October 2022. Approximately 17 percent of Discord users reported they were using Twitter more than they were before, and only four percent reported they had stopped using the microblogging platform altogether.

According to a survey of online users conducted in April 2023 in the United States, 23 percent of respondents used the communication and voice-over-the-internet platform Discord. Between 2022 and 2023, the share of Discord users who were platform's "intenders" decreased from 11 percent to six percent. In the examined period, the share of users who reported never having used Discord before rose from 67 percent to 71 percent in 2023.

As of September 2021, Discord was counting approximately 150 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide. This represents an increase of 50 million users from June 2020. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a social and communication platform that allows users to make video and over-the-internet voice calls, as well as create invite-only communities called "servers." Thanks to its screen sharing and live streaming features, the platform is also used by gamers and mobile video games players worldwide to stream content to a selected audience.

According to a 2024 survey, 72 percent of Discord users in Brazil were men. Meanwhile, women accounted for only 28 percent of the total instant messaging app users in the country, thus representing the biggest gender gap among all messaging apps in Brazil. Additionally, the youngest audience was the dominant group for Discord in Brazil, with 56 percent of its users belonging to Generation Z, and 35 percent identifying as Millennials.

Discord is a VoIP and communication platform that took off in 2015 among the gaming community first. As of April 2024, the most popular gaming community on the platform was the server for the popular Roblox game Blox Fruits with approximately 1.75 million members. The Discord server dedicated to Genshin Impact ranked second with 1.6 million members.

According to a survey of online users conducted in September 2022 in the United States, 65 percent of respondents aged between 13 and 17 years reported not being interested in or aware of the communication and social platform Discord. In comparison, 20 percent of respondents in the same age group reported having used Discord and having enjoyed the experience. Around 26 percent of users aged between 18 to 24 reported not having used the platform yet but planning to do so.

In 2023, it was estimated that Discord's direct sales revenues would decrease by one million U.S. dollars compared to the previous year. Between 2019 and 2020, direct revenues of Discord's subscription product Nitro increased by over 70 percent, due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on digital platforms usage trends for communicating among users in the United States and worldwide. Direct revenues are estimated to decrease from 208 million U.S. dollars to 207 million U.S. dollars between 2022 and 2023, as Discord offers a large number of its features (VoIP, text, and video communication) for free to users. While the platform's registered users are expected to grow in the same period, exponential growth in direct revenues is not a given. The perks included in a Discord Nitro yearly subscriptions, which retails for 29.99 U.S. dollars in its Nitro Basic format and for 99.99 U.S. dollars in its standard Nitro format, go from personalized emojis, server boosters, and HD streaming.

In March 2024, users in the United States amassed almost 314 million visits to the popular gaming-focused communication platform Discord. Brazil followed, with users in the country generating over 38 million visits during the examined month, while India had almost 33 million monthly visits. Discord was launched in 2015 as a social and group communication platform and it includes voice, text, video, and community integrations for users to interact with each other.

During the first half of 2024, the platform manipulation issue was the most signalled on Discord, making up around 52 percent of all reported issues on the platform. Harassment and bullying were the second most reported issues on Discord, making up 18.97 percent of all submitted reports. Between January and June 2024, over 8 percent of user reports were on exploitative and unsolicited content.

Discord was launched as a gamer-friendly communication platform, but this vibrant online environment has evolved to host much more than gaming. As of August 2024, Discord counted five distinct server categories, for a total of over 28,400 thousand servers. The largest number of servers on the platform were in gaming communities—approximately 21,000 thousand servers. Entertainment servers came in second, while education servers were around two thousand.