2015.12.15 — Change Log

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• More Languages! Italian, Bulgarian and Japanese are here — welcome to the Discord fam :)
• The Discord Partner Program is henshin a go go baby. Apply for a chance to get leveled up.
• Toggle between voice activity and push to talk modes with a handy dandy keybind. You know, in case you can’t decide. This one’s for you JoshOG!
• Automatically converting emoticons like :-) into emoji can now be disabled. We’re not sure why, but you asked for it! Fan requested!
• Role management is a little easier now. Add or remove a role from the user’s popout because context is so hot right now. Fan requested!
• Instant Invite UI for Android and iOS is no longer a secret. Everyone! Continue to get in here!
• Top Help Articles are only one click away. Click the ? button and get learnin’!
• For the tech fans — we moved our message storage to a Cassandra cluster because the amount of messages being sent on Discord is too damn high! Moral of the story: messages load faster.
• Tables can now /unflip. Because priorities ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) Fan requested!
• Updated strings for all existing localized languages.
• New loading screen quotes added. Some loading screen quotes removed.
• Implemented message rate limiting for people who think spamming is cool.
• Hitting enter will now hit the affirmative action in confirmation modals.

• Unicode control characters are now stripped from usernames.
• Limited the title and description size of embedded links.
• Fixed issue where bots could mention users without actually having that user’s name in the message.
• Fixed issue when closing a direct message that will cause the unread message indicator to not go away.
• Fixed an issue where portrait images from mobile devices are improperly oriented.
• Changed people who are typing to show first three and then “more.”
• Fixed an issue where direct messages would not be marked as read.
• Fixed an issue where a user who is connected in voice chat with you and leaves a guild that you both are in would cause them to be removed from the voice chat list.
• The secret overlay should now always be on the screen, if you know how to turn it on.
• Improved behavior of dragging the secret overlay across the screen.
• Now shows ping in the secret overlay.
• No longer shows “Drop to upload your file…” if uploads aren’t enabled for the channel you’re in.

• Super duper notification customization town city PER SERVER and PER CHANNEL. You can now turn on/off @everyone pings. Also you can receive push notifications for all messages on mobile!
• Our new game detection system is almost done with support for ALL steam games. And Minecraft.
• The in-game Overlay is coming along and slowly getting closer to “not secret.”
• Due to popular request, we’ve started working on an iPad app. For big fingers.
• Streamers will be able to sync their Twitch Emotes for subs in Discord.
• Friends list! Friends List! Friends list!
• Upgraded DDoS mitigation hardware. Lots of people are being poopy heads lately.
• Aaaaand lots of stuff that you voted up on http://feedback.discordapp.com