2016.2.9 — Change Log

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• New Game Detection system is here with support for thousands of games including Minecraft, Half Life 3, and Notepad.
• Add Custom Games to your status message. Great for those obscure indie titles we’ve never heard of but you MUST tell everyone about.
• Version one User Profiles are out. Easily see what servers you share with someone. A lot more to come with this one…
• The Direct Message tab has a fancy search feature that is actually useful. We tossed the old one out with the trash.
• Muted Servers are now sorted towards the bottom of your server list because you probably don’t care about them too much.
• A Silence warning bar pops up if we think you’re trying to talk but don’t hear your soft, caring voice.
• Downloads page at discordapp.com/download has received a super epic juice pass. Can’t stop the sparkles.
• DDoS Hardware protection has been deployed for the Frankfurt and London regions.
• Major Bandwidth reductions and server speed improvements due to a shiny new binary protocol.
• US Central voice server region is live in Chicago. These servers get extra puffy winter jackets and beefalo hats.
• Steam Protocol links are now clickable in chat.
• US South voice server region is live in Dallas. Someone please send me some barbeque.

• Added a new debug panel under the connect info popout to help diagnose voice issues. Check this out if you’re having weird stuff happen.
• For our friends with OCD, the Windows taskbar icon will now only flash when a notification appears.
• @ mentions in channel topics no longer look ridiculous in the dark theme.
• Runaway message scrolling has calmed down on the new version of Chrome and Firefox.
• The ping indicator used to be kind of wonky. So we made it less wonky.
• We met Itaku at PAX. He was disappointed that ¯_(ツ)_/¯ didn’t work. Now it does.
• The channel UI no longer accidentally hides users who are in a voice channel. Sorry about that one.

• The iPad app has been submitted to Apple along with a new iPhone update. Ohhhh boy!
• We’ve redone the in-game overlay tech and it’s available today in the Discord PTB. Grab it from the download page!
• Friends List development is underway and we’ve already started releasing pieces incrementally.
• Higher configurable bit rates for voice channels… because Music Bots. Yes yes. Really.
• We’ve finally hired some more developers, so the Linux build is under active development.
• A Major Android update is coming very soon with improvements for audio quality on more devices and just general polish.
• Keep the great ideas coming at http://feedback.discordapp.com