The Discord community is already 50 million large and continues to grow exponentially. If you were around in the IRC era, you’ll be pleased to know that Discord operates roughly in the same way. You can enter regular text channels and chat or use slash commands. If you want to voice chat, you can join a voice channel and talk with other members that use a headset. Whenever you feel like it, you can quickly set up a server for you and your gaming buddies. After you get them all in the same place, you can set up a voice channel for a particular game and invite your A team. This will allow your team to communicate freely without disturbing the rest of your buddies who are not playing that game. Isn’t that awesome? If you’re looking to break away from any other VoIP service and move your buddies to Discord, you should start by creating your own server. In the guide below, we will provide step by step instructions on creating your own Discord server. Depending on what platform you use Discord, refer to the Android or Windows guide. As a bonus, we have also added a guide on configuring your Discord server. Note: You can avoid installing any software by using the web version. Although it has some advantages in terms of portability, I urge you to stick with the desktop version. Some features are severely limited on the web version of Discord.
Creating a Discord Server on Windows
In order to create a Discord server, you need to have a validated account. You can do this easily by downloading the Discord client from here. After you install the client you will be automatically pointed towards creating and validating your account. Once you have a fully activated Discord account, follow the steps down below:
Creating Discord Server on Android
If you’re looking to create a Discord server from an Android server, the steps are somewhat different but the end result is the same. Here’s what you need to do:
How to Configure Your Discord Server
Discord gained hordes of fans mainly because of its server customisation options. Most of the VoIP competitors are lacking far behind Discord when it comes to server configuration. As a Discord server owner, you can play around with the settings yourself or elevate one of your buddies to become server administrator. If you use a private server to play get play some multiplayer games from time to time, you might not ever get to benefit from the following tweaks. But if you aim to make your server public, then configuring properly is one of the first things you should do.
Tweaking text and voice channels
If you’re planning to build a sizable community around your server, you absolutely need to split your server into multiple voices and text channels. Try to make them as clear as possible, so that none of the new members become confused. You can easily add new text channels or voice channels by clicking on the plus icon associated with each type.
Assigning Roles to your Buddies
If your community gets big enough, you might want to grant certain members administrative roles so that they can fill your shoes you when you’re not there. Depending on the type of elevated access, the people who you trust will be able to kick and ban normal members from your server. As a rule of thumb, grant elevated access to your real friends and avoid letting an outsider into your leadership team. You can access the administrative settings of your server by right-clicking on your server and click on Server Settings.
From there, go to Roles. On this screen, you’re able to create roles based on your needs, give them custom colors and select the appropriate permissions for each role.
Wrap Up
As you can see, Discord is the better VOIP choice when comparing it with most of the competitors. The ability to create and customize servers has attracted a lot of TeamSpeak and Skype users to this dedicated gaming chat app. Even more, the intuitive interface, the role management feature and the general reliability of the Discord platform urges me to recommend this VoIP service above all others. What’s your personal experience with Discord? Did you already create a Discord server? Let us know in the comment section below.
