What year was Discord launched?

Discord was launched in 2015. The platform was publicly released on May 13, 2015, initially under the domain name Discordapp.com, as a communication service built for people who wanted reliable voice and text chat while gaming.

Discord grew from the work of Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy. Citron had previously founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform, while Vishnevskiy had created Guildwork. Their experience with gaming communities helped shape Discord’s focus on persistent communities, voice channels, and low-friction group communication.

The service was originally aimed primarily at gamers, but its “server” model soon attracted communities devoted to education, music, hobbies, technology, and social groups. A Discord server can contain multiple text and voice channels, each with its own permissions and membership structure.

A common mix-up is confusing Discord’s launch year with the years of later features. Discord introduced its first paid Nitro features in 2017, and it later expanded beyond gaming. Those milestones came after the platform itself launched in 2015.