Our 10 Best Tips To Become a Discord Master

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Discord is digital chat in all its forms, and while it is more familiar to gamers, it can leverage group chats for a variety of purposes, such as a cooler, less formal Slack. Whether you have been on Discord for years or have just opened the app for the first time, these tips can help you make the most of the platform.1) Put your servers in folders.A well-organized Discord app leads to a happier and fuller life, or so we have heard, and the software now allows you to organize all the servers you are a part of into folders. If you are involved in many servers, this can be a very useful way to reorder them.To create a folder, you simply drag one server on top of another; you can then add more servers, dragging and dropping them as necessary. You can name folders as you wish, mark them as a reading group, add color coding, and keep track of multiple servers more easily.2) Keep Discord compactDiscord’s interface can be very cluttered, but there are several ways to get around this: go into User Settings (via the gear icon in the lower left corner), then Pop Up to switch to a compact mode that removes some of the spacing and adopts an older IRC look and feel.If you switch to the Text and Images panel, just above, you can further reduce the amount of distractions on the screen: settings in this panel allow you to disable link previews, disable animated GIFs and emoji reactions, and remove image previews.3) Set volumes for individual users.AdvertismentSome of your Discord contacts may be quieter or more interesting than others. In this case, you can increase their audio volume level independently of others. You can also reduce the volume of those who are too loud.To do this, you need to be on the desktop or in the web application: right-click on a user’s name anywhere in the interface and the user’s volume slider will appear, so you can deal with your needs. The other options shown allow you to exclude users, send them direct messages, or hide the video feed.4) Sharing your musical tastesDo you want all your Discord friends to know what you are listening to on Spotify? Sure, and you can access your music streaming account by clicking User Settings (the gear icon in the lower left corner), then Connections, and then the Spotify icon in the list.If you wish, the song you are listening to will appear on your profile and your friends can listen to it with you (if they are Spotify Premium subscribers). You can also invite contacts and channels to listen to it from the main input field.5) Make the best use of MarkdownDiscord supports the Markdown format, well known to experienced programmers and instant messaging veterans. In Discord, this format essentially allows you to add formatting to text using quick style codes.You can find all the details about Markdown in Discord here, and it is an easy way to make your conversations more readable. In addition to adding bold, italic, and strikethrough effects to typed text, you can use it to create quotation marks and code blocks.6) Changing the audio settingsFor voice conversations in Discord, it is essential that you are heard correctly, and the application offers extensive help in this regard. Click User Settings (the gear icon in the bottom left corner), then Voice and Video, then Advanced to see how Discord handles audio.The audio quality settings should be on by default, but you can change them if you have a particularly good microphone or your own audio tuning software. Use the Let’s Check microphone test to listen to a recording of your speech.7) Know the shortcutsAdvertismentKnowing the right keyboard shortcuts can make life in any application much easier and faster, and the same applies to Discord: you can find an official list for Windows here and for macOS here, covering everything from changing channels to muting.Our favorites are Shift+Esc to mark everything playing on the current server, Ctrl+E (Windows) or Cmd+E (macOS) to display the all-important GIF and emoji selector, and Ctrl+/ (Windows) or Cmd+/ (macOS) to display all on-screen shortcuts.8) Setting up keyboard shortcutsYou can also create custom keyboard shortcuts through what Discord calls keyboard shortcuts. If you are relatively new to the application, you may not know that these shortcuts save you time, or that you can customize them as you wish.Click the gear icon next to your username in the lower left corner of the application interface and select Keybinds to set up your own shortcuts: you can assign keyboard shortcuts to a number of functions, including mute, press-to-talk, streamer mode, and the ability to show or hide the overlay.9) Screen SharingA handy tip if you can’t use Zoom: if you’re on a closed video call, click the Share Screen button below the thumbnails to share your screen (it looks like an arrow on a monitor). You have the right to share your entire desktop or just a specific program window.Alternatively, if you click the “Go Live” button next to your name on a voice channel (it looks like the “Screenshare” button), you can start streaming with your entire desktop or a specific application. Some extras, like audio sharing, are limited to the Windows application.10) Make notifications easyIn these days of notification overload, Discord offers a certain level of control over what you are notified of, which goes as far as turning off notifications from the Discord app on your phone or computer and logging you in.You can change the length of time Discord will wait for you to be inactive on your computer before turning mobile alerts back on: on your desktop computer, go to the settings panel (the gear icon, bottom left) and choose Notifications, then Notification TimeoutAdvertismentTO READ MORE :9 best Live Streaming Tips & Tricks to Level-Up Your Streams