What is Discord Servers. How to Use Discord Servers. How to Create Discord Servers

Game developers, for example, often have servers running for their games so like-minded gamers can get together and discuss the game and make new friends too.

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You will also find clans, communities and groups of people with their own Discord server that they might invite you to.

How to create a Discord server

Discord servers are free to create. So you have the option to create your own server that you can then use to invite friends to.

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How To create your own Discord server follow these steps:

Login to Discord

Click the green plus symbol on the left-hand side and click “create a server”

Once created you can then click the plus symbol under “text channels” and “voice channels” to add new channels

You’ll also find a drop-down menu at the top under the server’s name where you can access server settings

Server settings let you do all sorts of things. From here you can create roles for members, including setting up admin powers for trusted friends. You can also set moderation levels to stop new users from spamming text chat or sending inappropriate messages. You can even add custom emojis and create a widget for your server you can share elsewhere here too.

Once your Discord server is created, right-click on either the text channel or voice channel and click invite to then send your friends an invite or create a link that’ll help others join your server. You can set an expiry time, max number of uses and even tick to make the membership temporary too if you want to take care around who joins your server.

Discord server text channels

Discord’s text channels are useful for all sorts of things. You can set them up for general banter, to discuss specific games, to organise gaming sessions with your friends or simply to share things you’ve found online.

Discord voice channels

Voice channels are chat rooms you can just for VOIP purposes. Drop into a channel and get talking with your friends using your headset and have a great time.

It’s worth noting that the server gives you various controls depending on whether you created the server or not. You can do simple things like increase or decrease another user’s volume in voice channels by simply right-clicking their name and adjusting a volume slider. There are also options to mute, kick, ban and more if you set up the server or have the right privileges.

When in a server, you can also mute and deafen yourself to stop from being heard or hearing others when you need quiet time. Alternatively, there’s usually an AFK (away from keyboard) channel when you need it.

Read the rules

If you’re creating a Discord server and you want people to behave in a certain way then you can create a rules channel. It’s also possible to ensure new members read those rules before doing anything else.

Muting channels

If you join a larger server, you might find that things get a bit overwhelming at times. If text channels are used a lot you’ll find yourself bombarded with notifications or icons when a channel gets a new message in it. We find it’s often best to mute channels you don’t need or want to hear from.

Right-click on a text channel and you can choose to either mute the channel as a whole or set it to only notify you if someone mentions you.

In channels, it is possible to mention users directly with @username. Type in their name and then your message and they’ll be notified. You can also use other commands like @here or @everyone to alert everyone on the server. If there are people who love the attention they might use and abuse that and it drive you mad. Don’t worry, you can always turn the notifications off, so you’re never notified if you don’t want to be.

Discord Commands

There are various commands you can use on Discord servers. These give you quick access to settings or let you do simple things like adding a hilarious gif into the middle of a chat.

Basic commands include:

@username — This mentions a particular user and will notify them of your message. Replace “username” with the name of the person on the server to send them a note.

@here or @everyone — notifies everyone to grab their attention for something special

/giphy term — Insert a gif into the text chat channel

/nick name — It’s possible to set a new nickname specifically for the server if you’re not happy with your current name without changing your username entirely

/TTS message — this command has your message read aloud by a text-to-speech synthesiser. Use with care though as it’ll quickly be shut down by server admins if it is overly used

/spoiler message — this allows you to send a message but hidden behind a spoiler warning to stop ruining things for people.

/tableflip, /unflip and /shrug — these are just daft extra commands that add various emojis into the chat including the classic table flip and shrug emoji

There are a few other commands you can use as well, but these are the best ones. They are also subject to change as Discord is regularly being updated and improved.

What are Discord bots?

As standard, Discord is already pretty feature-rich and intelligent too. As a server grows, it can be tough to manage though and keep an eye on things. Discord bots are useful in various ways. You can add bots to your server to help moderate or do other clever things like integrating with other services and apps too.

There are various officially supported server bots available and unofficial ones as well these bots include:

Moderation bots: These bots are designed to automatically manage your server. They will prevent spam, handle user banning and make it easier to use admin commands from the chat too. Examples of moderation bots include MEE6, Dyno, GAwesomeBot and Gaius.

Translation bots: If your server has users from all over the world then a bot that is capable of translating into multiple languages is bound to be a welcome addition. New View does just that.

Image bots: Jazz up your server with bots that can bring images in beyond your usual gifs. Dank Memer promises to fill your Discord server with hilarious memes.

Music bots: These bots bring music into your server via YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitch and other services. Rythm bot also comes with lyrics, various commands and more.

Game bots: Idle hands are the devil’s play thing. When server users aren’t gaming or chatting, you can keep them engaged with game bots. Cafe is one interesting example.

How to stream on Discord — Go Live mode

We already know it’s possible to stream your gaming on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and more. But if you want to stream to a smaller audience you can use Discord’s Go Live mode to show off your gameplay to your friends.

To stream on Discord follow these steps:

Click the little TV button with an arrow near your profile settings in the bottom left of the app

Select the application or screen you want to stream

Then choose the voice channel you want to stream in

Then click Go Live and you’ll be live for people to watch

Click invite to grab a direct link to give to your friends to watch

You’ll find a picture-in-picture view of your stream in the corner of Discord. You can also adjust the stream quality and frame rate from here too. Though you need a Discord Nitro subscription to get the higher 1080p and 4K settings here.

To watch other users who are streaming, you just need to watch out for the “live” icon by their names in the voice channels. Click their username and you can then click the “watch stream” button to watch the fun unfold.

It’s worth noting that Discord’s Go Live function lets you stream to up to 10 people normally but currently has a limit of 50.

Discord screen sharing

As well as going live on Discord, you can also share your screen with individuals and small groups. This is perfect if a friend needs tech support or you just want to show someone something without the hassle of capturing video and uploading it to YouTube.

To start screen sharing you first need to start a video call. Click on a friend, click the video camera icon at the top of Discord and start the call. You’ll then see the screen-sharing icon at the bottom of the screen. Click that and you get the option to choose which screen or application to share.

Find out more about screen sharing on Discord here.

What is Discord Nitro?

For the most part, Discord is free to use. There’s no cost to use the app or to start a server. However, if you’re loving the experience you can subscribe to Discord Nitro.

Nitro enhances your already awesome Discord experience with access to things like animated emojis, bigger file uploads, higher-quality streaming options and more. It’s priced at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Nitro is a good way to show your support for Discord and show off as a result too.

Discord shortcuts

For the Discord pro user, there are a number of keyboard shortcuts you can use to quickly engage with Discord and get your message heard. Here are just some of the best ones. Firstly, press tab on your keyboard, then use your arrow key to highlight a particular message and use these shortcuts:

Q — quote message

+ — add reaction

r — reply to message

p — pin message

ALT+Enter — mark unread

DISCORD

Discord Stage Channels

Stage Channels are an option that can be used by Community Servers. These offer users the ability to broadcast live chats to a captive audience.

With a Stage Channel, users can create a place where people can present to an audience in a comfortable and engaging way.

When setup, there are three specific roles — speakers, moderators and the audience. Speakers are the only ones who can talk in the channel, while the moderators are there to keep things flowing. The audience is there to listen but can indicate they’d like to talk if the audience is allowed to participate.

At this point, Stage Channels are only available for community servers (find out how to enable that here). But when you do create one you can run all sorts of audio-centric events like voice ask me anything sessions, interviews, reading clubs, presentations and more.

Audience members can leave and join on a whim, without interrupting the speaker and the whole thing is designed to be seamless.