2016.1.22 — Change Log

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• Today we’re announcing the Discord Public Test Build (PTB). Download it from discordapp/apps to get early access to fancy features!
• In-Game Overlay is available for preview in the PTB right now! Give it a try and let us know if it works for you.

• New Game Detection system is here with support for ALL steam games like Goat Simulator. And that block building game… Blockcraft?
• All the Half Life 2 based games we’ve tested now properly show up under Now Playing.
• Steam Protocol links are now clickable in chat. This one is for you JoshOG!
• We’re testing a new voice debug panel to help chase down the remaining voice bugs. Gotta catch ’em all.
• Direct Messages are now sorted with the most recent messages towards the top. Easier to find who to talk to!
• Transfer Owner of a server from the Server Settings panel. FINALLY!!
• Discord Moved! We loaded up all our stuff into a truck and moved to Googleville. Response times are about 25% faster for the whole app. Zoom zoom.
• Images load five times faster. The next upgrade we’re working on is knowing what image you want to post before you even post it! That’ll be crazy fast.
• Attachments upload really fast now. Part of our Super Duper Ultra Image Handler Upgrades.
• Increased capacity in Amsterdam, US-East, US-West, and London to support all the peoples doing all the talking.
• 20x Performance improvement to the user interface on desktop clients. Getting the theme of this update?
• Reduced battery consumption by a ridiculous amount on iOS and Desktop clients. No more hot phones.
• New languages! Discord is now available in Czech, Danish, Korean, Turkish, and Ukrainian. It’s a whole new world.
• Region Selector is all pretty now with flags. For people who don’t like to read.
• Reduce Spam in public communities as proven by Steam Sale Detectives with new Account Verification levels! Try them in your server settings to limit who’s allowed to chat.
• Discord Partner features are live! VIP Voice Servers and Custom Invite Splash Images abound.
• Higher Bitrate by accident. It turns out the desktop client has actually been set to 64kbps (not 40kbps). Enjoy your extra bits!
• Copy Pasting multiple lines of text is now formatted all pretty with names and timestamps.

• Mentions no longer stop autocompleting in large servers when they shouldn’t.
• Voice and Notification are saved when you logout and login. This one’s for you Cher!
• Users no longer display as online indefinitely. If Jimmy is online, Jimmy should be online!
• Replacing the .gif extension with something else will no longer auto play GIFs. Sneaky people are sneaky.
• API has been patched to no longer allow uploading animated avatars. Gotta respect the hertz.
• Long usernames no longer get all wrappy-like in voice channels.
• Firefox text highlighting is fixed.

• The iPad app is really really close to submitting to Apple. It’ll have split view and slide over support too. Great for Hearthstone.
• Friends List! We’ve been working on it for a while but woooweee it’s gunna be great.
• Higher configurable bit rates for voice channels… because Music Bots.
• Optionally add any running process to your “Now Playing” status and give it a name. Playing Notepad? Sure!
• Keep the great ideas coming at http://feedback.discordapp.com