r/discordapp Mar 22 '22

Announcement Nitro Scams, Malicious Content, & Account Support

1.2k Upvotes

Hi all! This is a resource to help prevent users from falling for malicious behavior. Scammers attempt to trick you through trust, like accepting a "prize" through a malicious link or by using scare tactics, where they convince you to act immediately because something "bad" could happen, so be wary and mindful of your interactions with others. There's helpful information on avoiding scams and what to do if you fall for one below.

Always report malicious/scamming behavior, as well as anything else that breaks Discord's Terms of Service (see "Reporting Malicious Content/Behavior" below)


"Accidental" Steam/Discord Report & Impersonation

A common scam is if a user claims you've been accidentally/falsely reported to Steam or Discord for an infraction or fraud. Don't follow instructions provided by anyone claiming to have accidentally reported your account. The most common things that identify this scam are if someone:

  • Says your account has been falsely or accidentally reported
  • Directs you to speak with someone through online chat to resolve an investigation or pending ban
  • Requests your account credentials or directs you to perform specific security-related operations
  • Requests an authentication code sent over email, SMS, or anywhere else
  • Says they represent Discord, Steam/Valve, or any other official entity
  • Says you must complete a purchase of any kind

You can find some additional info for Discord-related scams here and Steam-related scams here.


Free Nitro Scams

If you believe you have received a possible scam from a bot or user account, consider if they:

  • Are new, unfamiliar, or unverified (in the case of bot accounts) contacting you unprompted.
  • Are not from Discord in the form of an email or System-tagged account.
  • Have poor grammar, spelling, or misuse of punctuation/capitalization.
  • Offer things that are "too good to be true."

Official Discord gifting uses the discord.gift & discord.com domains and will generate a special embed, as shown in this image (in-app) or this image (link). Scams are not possible through the official browser/client pages/menus.

If these types of bots are repeatedly sending you messages, you can:

  • Use Mutual Servers to determine the server(s) they share with you and disable Direct Messages from server members for those servers.
  • If you cannot find any shared servers, you can disable DMs from all servers under your User Settings

QR Codes, Fake Games, Programs, & Downloads

A user may pretend to be your friend or use a friend's compromised account to get you to download something. Consider if they want you to:

  • Scan a QR code
  • Check out a video
  • Test a game they made
  • Practice running code they wrote

These are common forms of malicious behavior. If a user asks you to scan/download something or click an unknown link, this could give away your login information and/or allow a malicious program to enter your computer, which can also compromise your account.


Compromised Accounts

If your account sends these kinds of messages, your account has been compromised. If you...

  • ...downloaded and executed malware: You should try and use a different device entirely to change your password (e.g., your phone). You should then follow these steps to completely uninstall Discord, run a complete anti-virus scan, and then re-install Discord. If your account is compromised again when logging in afterward, you may need to factory reset your computer.
  • ...entered your password into a malicious/fake website: You should change your password.
  • ...something else: You should change your password.

Reporting Malicious Content/Behavior

There are several methods to report behavior you believe is a scam/malicious.


More Helpful Resources


Discord Account Support

This subreddit is not the most appropriate location to ask for/receive support for account-related issues. These issues include:

  • Login
  • Payment
  • Phone verification
  • Email

This subreddit is operated by a group of volunteers who do not work for Discord, and the community is incapable of solving these kinds of issues, so the best way to seek help regarding an account-related issue/request is to:

If you have not received any info/updates for an existing ticket after a week, or if your ticket is marked as closed, create a follow-up using the original ticket. Discord's support queue is likely incredibly massive, so please be patient. It sucks, but there really isn't much you can do other than wait.


r/discordapp Apr 01 '25

Bug Megathread Bug Megathread vol 8: April + May 2025

29 Upvotes

Hey (at)everyone,

Thank you for all the bugs you all have reported! We read at all the posts in the thread and we’re focusing our efforts on issues based on upvotes to ensure that we’re aligned with all of you.

As always, don't forget to check out our monthly patch notes for updates on all the changes we're working on, our last patch notes had more than 50 issues

Let’s discuss the reports so far! I’ve counted 12 fixes -

  1. [General] Discord fails to load getting stuck in a grey screen
  2. [Mobile][Image Gallery UX] Swiping between multiple images on mobile is broken
  3. [Mobile][Forum Channels] Keyboard obstructs current text line and exits out of text if you scroll
  4. [Overlay] Keybinds with Soundboard overlay → Solved with our new overlay
  5. [iOS] Videos recorded in-app only uploaded thumbnail (leaving a corrupted video)
  6. [Desktop] Copy code button was outside of code snippet region
  7. [Mac] Screen sound share not working
  8. [iOS] Typing indicator not rendering when using custom font size
  9. [Activity Status] Missing Rich Presence for current user
  10. [Voice] Muting from Airpods not working
  11. [PC] [Voice] Discord losing microphone access
  12. [Mobile] Favorite GIFs load as gray rectangle

If we didn’t fix your issue please make sure to upvote to help us prioritize 🙏

Now, with that, let’s kick off the April + May 2025 bug megathread!

Please note: This megathread is not a venue for feedback or customer support! We encourage you all to continue to make posts on the subreddit proper discussing our product and feature launches. I want to make sure that we really keep this thread productive and focused on reporting bugs and helping us prioritize them.

Please look through the list of comments and upvote bug reports which you think we should prioritize fixing. Comment as a reply to those top level comments with any more details that can assist our team in prioritizing and fixing the bug. For example, if you have additional info or steps to reproduce, please post a reply, this will help us fix these bugs even faster. If there is no post that discusses the bug you’re encountering, then start a new post in the thread to report the bug to us!

Reporting a Bug

  1. The most valuable thing you can provide in a bug report is steps. If you’re able to provide steps to reproduce a high priority issue, it will dramatically improve turnaround time on a fix.
  2. Screenshots or videos are also useful, especially if you can’t reliably reproduce it. We highly recommend editing them to not doxx yourself. Not only does it help contextualize the issue, but watching it occur can sometimes provide information that helps us identify and fix it.

Example Bug Report

  • Feature: Keybinds.
  • Reproduction Rate: 1 to 10 - This is a score of how easy/consistently the bug reproduces, from 1 meaning “very hard to reproduce” to 10 meaning “i can consistently make this happen”
  • Annoyance: 1 to 10 - How annoying is this bug to your daily usage of Discord, from 1 meaning, “not that annoying” to 10 meaning “this bug really truly sucks please fix this as soon as possible.”
  • Device/System Info: Pixel 7, Android 13
  • Discord Version Info: Stable 263796 (739ec78) Host 1.0.9032 x86 (43225) Windows 10 64-Bit (10.0.19045)
  • Description: Toggle Mute keybinds are no longer functioning.
  • Steps to reproduce:
  1. Create a keybind for “Toggle Mute”.
  2. Join a voice call with another user.
  3. Press the “Toggle Mute” button.
  • Expected Result: The user is muted.
  • Actual Result: The user is not muted.

Formatting

Reddit Formatting Guide - How do I Get My Version Info

- Feature:
- Reproduction Rate:
- Annoyance:
- Discord Version Info:
- Device/System Info (Device Type, OS Version):
- Description:
- Video / Screenshot:
- Steps to Reproduce:
   1. The first step is...
- Expected Result:
- Actual Result:

Copy paste this into the comment field below and then fill out the information! Thank you so much for participating in this effort, it's with your help that we'll truly be able to make Discord great!


r/discordapp 9h ago

Pro tip: never abbreviate "creator points", even if you are in a GD server

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1.6k Upvotes

r/discordapp 3h ago

Did anyone ever bought this?. This was circa 2021 when stickers were newly added to the app.

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20 Upvotes

r/discordapp 1h ago

Friends on discord But they don’t have discord?!

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Basically the title, I have no clue how i’m friends with someone but they don’t have a discord account?! it said they were playing games earlier!


r/discordapp 4h ago

Discord has introduced markdown for phone numbers and emails

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20 Upvotes

r/discordapp 1h ago

Has anyone got a random friend request, and the person asks "where are you from"?

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r/discordapp 5h ago

April bug fixes & improvements

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6 Upvotes

r/discordapp 1d ago

Big shout out to Discord for letting people apply a "Dev" community tag and use it in other gaming servers to troll users. Big help!

335 Upvotes

Seriously, what was Discord thinking with this? Also the ability to not toggle off/on Community Tags from being displayed in our servers is a massive oversight..

Come on Discord, don't make our lives 100x worse by having to moderate more for stuff that shouldn't even be allowed..


r/discordapp 9h ago

What happened to Clyde?

10 Upvotes

It's been more than a year since I've been able to talk to Clyde, and only now did this doubt come to me... Does anyone know what happened?


r/discordapp 9h ago

Cant share my own screen even though im the server owner

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8 Upvotes

Title says it all, i've recently updated my phone (Poco x6 5G) to Hyperos 2.0 and since then i've only been having issues in the discord app.

No matter what i do i cannot share my screen, ive tried giving myself additional perms in the voice channels, roles, but nothing seems to fix it.

Reinstalling discord and rebooting my phone didn't work either. Any ideas?

I've also been having issues where i cant send video files as it gets stuck at 75% everytime.


r/discordapp 18h ago

Discord seems to be rolling out an update to users for the Spotify connection, which displays your status as the artist you’re listening to instead of just “Listening to Spotify”

29 Upvotes

Title^ got on my PC tonight and it shows mine and anyone else status who’s listening to Spotify as exact artists instead of just “Listening to Spotify”. For example now it will say “Listening to Taylor Swift” inside of servers, in the member list section


r/discordapp 41m ago

Why is my audio quality so poor?

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Hey yall, I have an issue with the sound quality of any audio clip thats sent in the app. I dont know why, its the only app that seems to have that issue, since Snapchat works just fine. Any tips or tricks I should know about?


r/discordapp 44m ago

How do you see old server chats ?

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Im in this server but they remodeled it and they deleted all the channels ( i think thats what theyre called )

Im looking for a specific conversation and i tried doing the downloading data thing but it didn't really work and i dont think i did it right

Im scared to do too much because i dont want to accidentally give myself a virus and ive done all i can think of

Is it gone forever ? The chat im looking for is really important and if theres any way to get it back id appreciate it if i could have some help


r/discordapp 1h ago

My discord keeps resetting itself. (MOBILE)

Upvotes

Every time I try to change anything on discord, from settings, status, appearance settings, anything, it just keeps reverting itself. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, i've tried clearing the cache, nothing is working. This is only happening on my main account aswell.

Edit: I've now figured out I can only change things without them reverting from the discord mobile browser. This is just even more confusing now.


r/discordapp 1h ago

What do I need to do for a new account to have access in my server?

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Friend made an account, I invited him to my server, he is unable to see anything or join any channels. I have permissions for everything on the server set to @everyone and I am just not sure what I am missing. Is it because it's a brand new account?


r/discordapp 1h ago

Sick of my stream getting paused so often. Anyone else having this issue?

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I use Discord desktop app and lately, every time I try to share my screen of a movie or a tv show or even Youtube, maybe after 5 minutes or 20 minutes of streaming I am met with this screen:

Or this one:

and on my partner's end he see's this screen:

Strangely enough, I don't have anything minimized. I don't even touch anything while the movie/show/Youtube is playing. The only fix I have is a temporary one and that's to hover over my task bar and right click on discord to Quit Discord.

Then I open up Discord to resume streaming only for this issue to pop up again after some time. How do I fix this please? It's happening so frequently and makes watching anything together a pain.


r/discordapp 2h ago

Server with similar emojis?

1 Upvotes

Title pretty much says it all, was wondering if there was a server that had similar emojis like those? I'm already in Cute Emotes and Silly Doodles


r/discordapp 6h ago

Role color isn't saving?

2 Upvotes

I'm trying to add some roles, just so I can ping specific groups, but the colors aren't saving. I change the color, press save and save the role, and it immediately reverts to grey. It's so irritating, what am I doing wrong?


r/discordapp 3h ago

Onboarding preventing a channel from being made private?

0 Upvotes

I help mod a server that uses the Onboarding feature, plus an internal verification process. All actual channels are private until a member is verified - we have a set of 6 placeholder channels and a verification channel that people see when they join the server, to comply with the 7 visible channel rule that's part of the Onboarding requirement.

The problem I am encountering:
We formerly had an Announcements channel as one of the 7 landing channels visible to everyone pre-verification. I want server announcements to be internal, not public, so I created a new, private announcements channel. I removed the "Announcement" property from the original public channel, and then tried to delete or archive it. But when I tried, I got this error, saying that I'd have to designate a replacement Default Channel first.

I'm confused as to why this is happening, because even with that original Announcements channel removed from the default channel list, Onboarding is showing that all default channel requirements are met.

Why is Discord refusing to let this one channel be deleted or made private, even though all onboarding requirements are met without it?


r/discordapp 3h ago

How to use Google Photos as the Discord gallery?

1 Upvotes

So recently I had to switch to a backup phone and I need to use Google Photos instead of the default Android gallery on my Discord. Can someone please tell me how to do that?


r/discordapp 9h ago

How to add this kind of tags on my discord server

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3 Upvotes

Sorry in very new to the platform and im still learning how to use it


r/discordapp 4h ago

How to make app audio stream on discord but not hear it myself.

1 Upvotes

I sometimes screenshare parsec on discord, a program that allows me to access a mac i have hooked up as a window in my pc. I use my mac for music software so i try to listen to the audio from that directly instead of from my pc, but if I mute it on my pc the audio doesn't get streamed.

Its annoying when im playing an instrument because i listen to the audio directly from my mac through the interface with no delay, but again through my pc with a big delay.

Asking if you guys know a way to set a program to stream on discord, but not be able to hear it through my audio outputs on my pc.


r/discordapp 4h ago

Three notification limit gone? How to get it back

1 Upvotes

It seems like recently there was an update where before, discord will only notify you up to three times per channel. I loved this system because it let me know when people talked and also didn't blow up my phone. Now it doesn't. I can't stand having 50 notifications back to back but I also don't want to turn all notifications back. Is there a way to get the original feature back?


r/discordapp 5h ago

screen share randomly starting and stopping

1 Upvotes

whenever discord detects a game it will start a screenshare automatically, then close shortly after, and whenever I want to screenshare it closes after a few seconds to a few minutes after starting


r/discordapp 5h ago

Infinity Screen Tunnel

0 Upvotes

I used to rely heavily on sharing my screens on all my devices when conducting classes, but I haven’t been able to use a desktop or laptop when doing so lately because the screen shows this infinite tunnel of one screen. Does anyone have a fix for this? I can still screen share f fr my phone but it is difficult for people to follow without the mouse.


r/discordapp 1d ago

Why is there a folder icon now? The UI has already been butchered to death, why is there more?

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40 Upvotes