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Discord Patch Notes: December 8, 2025

Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.

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From Single-Node to Multi-GPU Clusters: How Discord Made Distributed Compute Easy for ML Engineers
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Discord Patch Notes: September 3, 2025
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Bringing DAVE to All Discord Platforms
A demonstration of the Discord Social SDK’s cross-platform communications.
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Discord’s Powerful Cross-Platform Chat: Ready for Your Game

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Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2025
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Discord Patch Notes: July 7, 2025
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How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
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Overclocking dbt: Discord's Custom Solution in Processing Petabytes of Data
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Announcing Discord’s Social SDK, Helping Power Your Game’s Social Experiences
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The Game Developer Playbook, Part One: Getting Started on Discord
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The Game Developer Playbook, Part Two: Early Access and Pre-Launch
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Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF
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Supercharging Discord Mobile: Our Journey to a Faster App
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How Discord Seamlessly Upgraded Millions of Users to 64-Bit Architecture
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Measuring Product Impact Without A/B Testing: How Discord Used the Synthetic Control Method for Voice Messages
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Come Build Where the World Plays
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How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
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Learning From Structure: Discord’s Entity-Relationship Embeddings
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Meet DAVE: Discord’s New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video
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Presenting Your App Pitches 2024 Winners!
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How Discord Uses Open-Source Tools for Scalable Data Orchestration & Transformation
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From Blocky to Brilliant: Improving Video Quality on Discord Go Live on AMD GPUs
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Developing Rapidly with Generative AI
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Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization
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It’s time to Pitch Your Discord Apps!!
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Headed to GDC 2024? Check Out the Latest News for Discord Game Devs
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How It All Goes Live: An Overview of Discord’s Streaming Technology
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How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments
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Discord Developers, Here’s to 2023 and What’s to Come!
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How Discord Modernized MFA with WebAuthn
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pytest daemon: 10X Local Test Iteration Speed
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The DDevs Server Celebrates 250k Members!
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25% or 6 to 4: The 11/6/23 Authentication Outage
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Congrats to the Discord App Pitches 2023 Finalists!
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Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
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Developers on Discord: Enjoy Premium App Subscriptions and more!
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Encryption for Voice and Video on Discord
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How Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees
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Developers, Supercharge Your Moderation with AutoMod
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Join us at GDC 2023, both IRL and on Discord!
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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
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Attention Discord Developers: The App Directory is Here!
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How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
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Using Machine Learning to Build a Delightful Notification Experience
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How Data Science Informs Strategy & Innovation at Discord
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Why and How Discord Uses Patch to Test Elixir
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How Discord Creates Insights from Trillions of Data Points
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Building open-source design tools to improve Discord’s design workflow
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How Discord Implemented App-Wide Keyboard Navigation
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