2016.4.8 — Change Log

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• Discover Emoji with the fancy new Emoji Picker. Just click on it in the text area to be whisked away to emojiopolis.
• Discord Official API with support for bots and oauth is now documented and ready for take off. If you’re a developer, click this blue link to read the docs and start building right now.
• More Emojis are pretty much the only thing I’ve ever wanted in my life. Now they’re here in Discord. All Unicode 8 emoji including :taco: and :eggplant: are available for good ol’ fashioned fun.
• People Emoji can now change skin color as part of the new Unicode 8 support. Pop open the Emoji Picker and choose your preferred color to be yourself, and not someone else. :ok_hand::skin-tone-2:
• Member List can now be toggled at will by clicking a button. Find the button on the top right. Great for not seeing people.
• We Improved the Disconnect Sound to take advantage of this futuristic new technology called Stereo. MajorLeagueWobs made a beat. MicDaMicrophone made a rap. Check it.
• Streamer Mode lets you hide your kids, your wife, your husbands, and all your relevant Discord information you don’t want public while streaming.
• Improved SFX quality across the entire app to make your beeps and boops way tastier.
• Stability Improvements (you’ll now resume without losing state if your net drops briefly). One of those things that you won’t notice and that’s exactly the point.
• Overlay functionality improved. You can now drag & drop users between channels.
• Compact Mode has been great, but got out of line. Now it’s been aligned. All the lines align.
• Wumpus is now on iOS. That’s it. Wumpus is now on Discord.
• iOS Performance Improvements to make the app more good and less bad.
• Animation Polish on opening and closing direct messages went through acting class and now perform better.
• Airhorn Solutions will live on and is being open sourced to show off the API. Add the bot to your server and get #ReadyForHorning

• Drag and Drop modal will now close itself in rare cases when it gets stuck
• Fixed a UI bug that looked like you could upload a file when you didn’t have permission.
• Codeblocks are back in channel topics
• Infrastructure improvements to reduce text message send failures. Less red.
• Sometimes you’d see people speaking even when they weren’t, now you won’t.
• Sometimes you wouldn’t hear someone who you should have heard, now you will.
• Unread badge now properly displays status after a clean start before receiving any messages.
• [Android] Hidden channels are no longer counted in the unread badge
• [Android] Notifications have additional options — sounds and vibrations can be individually enabled or disabled.
• [Android] Advanced back button behavior setting added to allow users to toggle open the navigation drawer.
• [Android] Battery life improvements while the application is backgrounded.
• [Android] Server verifications levels are now enforced with clear UI.
• [Android] Added support for even more android devices and fixes for robotic voice quality on some phone
• [iOS] Fast session resume when backgrounding so its easier to hop in and out of the mobile app. Coming real soon to Android
• [Overlay] We really like Overwatch, so we fixed our overlay to work with patch 1.0.4!
• [Overlay] Fixed blurry rendering in Direct3D9 games on AMD video cards
• [Overlay] Improved responsiveness when Discord is minimized in the background.

• A super early Linux Canary build is available. But it’s a secret. So you can go find it if you really want it. But I’m not telling where.
• Our API is fancy but could be even fancier. We have more features planned like simpler slash commands and captain webhooks.
• We’ve started designing a whole bunch of fancy highly requested features like SUB CATEGORIES ERMAHGERD.
• Phase 2 of the friends list (1 on 1 and group calls/chat) is on deck.
• Right click context menus to make navigating and doing the do easier in Discord.
• Improving push notifications so that they don’t send while you’re at your desktop using Discord (and send instantly otherwise).
• Tell us what we can do better at http://feedback.discordapp.com