Discord: five recommendations to get the most out of the application

The audio and voice messaging application, discord, has become a popular tool among the gaming community. With 250 million registered users, the platform is available for PC, smartphone and even game consoles.

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If you are one of those who uses it constantly, today we offer you five recommendations so that you can get the most out of it.

Limit the number of users and the quality of voice channels

One of the main problems in Discord is the large bandwidth needed by voice chats, especially if the user is looking for optimal sound quality.

Here you can limit the number of members. (Photo: Xataka)

To solve this, it will be necessary to enter the configuration of one of the channels, in which the adjustment will be ‘Bit rate’. Here, you can give more or less quality to the audio to achieve a better or worse connection.

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Similarly, the setting ‘User limit’ It will allow you to control the room in case many people are talking at the same time. The limit can be between 1 and 99 people.

Use markdown to format text

You can underline them, put them in bold, among other options. (Photo: Xataka)

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With markdown you can use codes to edit conventional text in Discord chat. These must be written before and at the end of each word or phrase to be able to underline it, put it in bold, italics and different options.

Here you can know how to establish each one of them.

Connect your accounts on other services for additional features

In Discord there is also the option to connect the accounts of Spotify, YouTube or Twitch and thus implement new functions within the servers. It is also possible to link services such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Skype and others.

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Services like Facebook and Spotify are available. (Photo: Xataka)

To achieve this, it will be necessary to click on the gear icon next to the profile. Then in the ‘Connections’ option, all services will be available. Once there, all that remains is to press the icon of the service that you want to link and access the permissions.

Limit member write interval

This feature is useful for moderating the conversation. (Photo: Xataka)

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with setting ‘slow mode’the user will be able to mark a certain period of time so that users cannot write more than one message in the established time.

This trick is useful for those who want to keep a conversation slow or in cases where many people talk too much and it is difficult to follow the thread of the conversation.

Use keyboard shortcuts

Finally, in order not to depend so much on the mouse, these Keyboard shortcuts will allow the user to have more direct control over Discord.

The shortcuts in Discord to not depend on the mouse. (Photo: Xataka)

To view the complete shortcut guide, the user must press ‘Control + /’ at once. By doing so, a screen at the top will point out all the shortcuts for the operating system.

Source: Elcomercio