The Discord app was created to connect people while playing video games together. The service allows you to share voice, video and text chat with friends, gaming communities and developers and supports gamer-friendly features, including the ability to broadcast the game the user is playing. Discord gained huge global popularity in 2020 during a pandemic, when people were forced to stay at home, while looking for ways to communicate safely. From February to June, the number of users increased by 47%, and some schools have chosen Discord as a service for online lessons. The platform has become a center of attraction for groups with different interests and has begun to be positioned as a "place for communication".
Today Discord is the absolute leader in its niche, the service has no analogues and competitors. In just 7 years of its existence, the application has gathered an audience of 300 million users. The average number of platform visitors per month is about 150 million people from 130 countries.