Hey y'all, our team is seeking feedback for notifications. We would love to get your thoughts.
What is it? We've made a lot of changes to notifications over the past year+, with the goal of getting friends to jump back into Discord and play games with their friends, check out each other's profiles, and generally be social with each other. We measure success by whether people are actually doing those things, and also by whether people keep their notifications on instead of turning them off.
Why? The team spends a lot of time thinking about the balance here: sending notifications that are useful and interesting enough that they might bring friends together, versus the "annoyance factor". That tradeoff is something we have a ton of data on, the thing we talk about internally constantly, and something we want to bring all of you in on. To that end, we've been getting a bunch of foundations in place:
Improved the organization of settings
Added more control over your settings
Made notifications more robustly respect things like guild and channel muting, age restrictions, blocks/mutes
Set global caps on how many notifications you can get
Now that we've built a number of new notifications on top of this system and gotten a lot of those foundations in, we wanted to open up the feedback firehose. Here's what we're looking for:
Bug reports / things that are clearly broken. The notification is:
Just wrong (says something happened that didn't, points at the wrong person or server, wrong count, etc.)
Sent at a weird or wrong time (way too late, middle of the night, for something you'd already seen, for a server or channel you'd muted)
Dropping you somewhere that isn't useful when you tap it (wrong channel, a screen with nothing relevant on it, a dead end)
If you can, tell us roughly when it happened and what you tapped. That helps a ton.
General feeling. Step back: how do you feel about the notifications you're getting overall?
Are they never useful, sometimes useful, or only useful for specific use cases? (by "use cases" we mean things like a friend hopping into a game, someone updating their profile, a friend coming back online, activity picking up in a server you're in, etc.)
If it depends on the use case, which ones land and which ones don't?
Was a notification too vague, or did it bring you somewhere you didn't expect when you tapped in? Did it set up an expectation it didn't deliver on?
Are there things happening on Discord that you wish you knew about but missed?
And if a notification actually got you to do something, like hop in a game, open a friend's profile, or jump back into a server, we'd love to hear that too, since that's exactly what we're going for
Settings. Now that there's more control and better organization:
Did you go looking for a setting and not find it, or not find it where you expected?
Anything you wish you could turn down or tune that you can't?
Annoyance feedback. Which notifications are annoying, and why?
Is it the type of notification itself?
How often it comes?
Does it feel creepy? (e.g. Discord shared too much of your activity or info out to other people without you realizing it, or you got more info about a friend than felt right)
The time of day?
The wording?
The fact that you got several in a row?
Hearing "I don't like X notification" isn't super useful to us. If you give us the whys we can better understand and respond to the feedback both directly and going forward as we build more notifications.
Appreciate any and all thoughts here. Fire away. I'll try to be in the comments but I expect y'all to overwhelm me haha.
Thank you for all the bugs you all have reported! We read all the posts in the thread and we’re focusing our efforts on issues based on upvotes to ensure that we’re aligned with all of you.
As always, don't forget to check out our monthly patch notes for updates on all the changes we're working on. Our last patch notes addressed 100+ issues!
If we didn’t fix your issue, please make sure to upvote to help us prioritize 🙏
Now, with that, let’s kick off the August + September 2026 bug megathread!
Please note: This megathread is not a venue for feedback or customer support! We encourage you all to continue to make posts on the subreddit proper discussing our product and feature launches. I want to make sure that we really keep this thread productive and focused on reporting bugs and helping us prioritize them.
Please look through the list of comments and upvote bug reports which you think we should prioritize fixing. Comment as a reply to those top level comments with any more details that can assist our team in prioritizing and fixing the bug. For example, if you have additional info or steps to reproduce, please post a reply, this will help us fix these bugs even faster. If there is no post that discusses the bug you’re encountering, then start a new post in the thread to report the bug to us!
Reporting a Bug
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Feature: Keybinds.
Reproduction Rate: 1 to 10 - This is a score of how easy/consistently the bug reproduces, from 1 meaning “very hard to reproduce” to 10 meaning “i can consistently make this happen”
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Device/System Info: Pixel 7, Android 13
Discord Version Info: Stable 263796 (739ec78) Host 1.0.9032 x86 (43225) Windows 10 64-Bit (10.0.19045)
Description: Toggle Mute keybinds are no longer functioning.
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My profile ambiance used to be grey, and now it's this reddish to purple-ish fade. What is this? Is this a new nitro thing? I like it, I'm just confused why it's different all of a sudden
The title explains what happened, but to elaborate, a little while ago I tried to access Discord through its website, and when the site loaded I was already logged out. I logged back in normally, but when I closed the tab and enter the website again, boom, Having to log in again, I did a test: instead of using my default URL (which goes directly to the server I use most often), I went to the URL without anything else (just Discord.com) and logged in through "Open App" and joined without needing to log in again. Has anyone else experienced this?
Heyo! So I have a discord webhook set up between my server and a jcink forum that I am using. It will ping users just fine but when it pings a role it doesn't actually notify anyone, it just says the name of the role (linked and everything, just not notifying people).
Exhibit A^ I had placed myself in each of these groups, not a single time was I notified. It mentions the role, its linkable etc but I receive no notification. Anyone know how to fix this??
Hi!
Yesterday morning my iPhone Discord App was lagging, slow, and when I connected to voice channels it would connect but I couldn’t hear or talk.
I uninstalled discord, reinstalled it, didn’t seem to help. Then suddenly when I opened the app again all I see is a blank discord stuck in loading and I can’t interact with it. I uninstalled, turned off and back on the phone, then reinstalled the app to see if it would fix anything. Didn’t ask me to log in. Seems just be stuck on a blank ever-loading screen.
Already scoured the internet for a solution for this but no luck, the "reduced motion" fix did nothing for me
ALL the time when I'm in VC with my 2 person private server this popup covers my chatbox and the bottom of my screen with no way to clear it, is there really no way to turn this off entirely? we already had an incident where a stranger got invited because of accidently clicking this before 😭 we will never be wanting to invite more people to this discord so I wish I could turn it off. TY in advance for help!
i'm trying to cancel my nitro basic subscription because a friend gifted me actual nitro and i don't want it to go into my nitro credit like the other two times because then i need to buy nitro myself to make use of it. i cancelled the subscription but it's not going away yet. how long does it take, since the gift expires in 39 hours?
Hey everyone, hoping someone here has run into this. Whenever I have a game and Discord running together on my laptop, both crash and disconnect at the same time roughly every 10 minutes (not perfectly regular, but close). After a few seconds they reconnect on their own and everything's fine again until it happens again.
It only happens on my laptop, my phone and tablet on the same Wi-Fi never have this issue, and it seems tied specifically to having Discord open alongside a game. This started at the beginning of the school year with zero problems and gradually got worse over time, so I suspect I changed some Wi-Fi setting on my laptop at some point trying to "optimize" something, but I honestly can't remember what. A normal speed test shows perfectly good results, so it's not a bandwidth issue.
So far I've done a full Windows network reset, updated the Wi-Fi driver, disabled power saving on the Wi-Fi adapter, checked the preferred band and wireless mode, lowered roaming aggressiveness and disabled background scanning, flushed DNS and reset Winsock/TCP-IP, ruled out a rogue proxy or weird hosts file entries, uninstalled any network booster software, confirmed it happens whether plugged in or on battery, tried disabling Discord's QoS setting (turns out it's been removed from the client), and disabled all of Malwarebytes' protections to rule that out. None of it changed anything. I also ran a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 during a crash and it stayed completely stable with no timeouts or spikes, which makes me think it's not a general internet/Wi-Fi signal problem but something more specific, maybe UDP traffic getting interrupted somewhere without affecting basic ping.
There is an account I am not friends with but used to be and we don't share any servers. If I react to an old message in DMs, the screen does not shake but the reaction disappears. However, if I send a friend request, it goes through to pending. In addition, when hovering over their profile, it says "unable to load parts of this profile."
If I send a message, it turns red and I get a bot message "Your message could not be delivered. Send a friend request first and start the conversation once they've accepted."
Whenever I talk with friends, they have my volume up to 200% and even then my mic is real quiet to them. I have all volumes on max that I could find and change for the microphone and nothing seems to work without making the mic sound ugly. My headset is Steelseries Arctis Prime if that changes anything. Please if anyone has a solution, mention it in the comments
Is there any way to make it so I don't appear in any server's Recent Activity log? I'm fine with people seeing what I'm currently playing, but having everyone be able to see what I played four days ago is extremely creepy to me. Why is discord tracking it in the first place?
I’ve got non-gif emojis in my server and it says I need nitro to use them. Can’t react or send in chat. Is this a bug or a new money grabbing tactic? I’m in hell. What is this. using on ios
I don't remember exactly when I stopped being able to do this. On mobile, I used to be able to see who was looking at a stream, by tapping the streamer's name and it would bring up a list of the users in the voice chat, with viewers having an eye icon next to them.
This no longer happens, now the list of users has no indication as to who's viewing, and I can't find anywhere else to view this. It's been like this for at least a year not but I'm just now getting annoyed enough to ask if anyone knows where to see the stream's viewers or if it is just completely gone now.
I often watch my friends do things on Discord using the streaming function on full screeen, but sometimes I have the nerve to press a button while selecting their stream, causing this chat bar to appear. Is there a way to dismiss it? The only way I've found is to leave and reenter full screen.
It is the area marked by the red box, which is part of the full screen stream I was watching.
I have someone who has been banned from my server (due to some drama) and I can see they are still using my server tag. Is there any way to force a removal of this from them? I don't want any association with them.
Before I begin, I should preface with this: I greatly appreciate how much better the Discord experience is now than when I first started using it on Ubuntu a few months ago! At that time, EVERY time Discord updated, it would no longer be able to log in and would launch my browser to download a .deb package, which then had to be manually installed. A while back, they changed Discord so it installs updates automatically, so that's been huge!
However, around that same time (possibly the same time?), for reasons unknown to me, Discord stopped automatically launching when I logged in. I checked Ubuntu's "startup apps" dialogue, and the command Discord was making for itself looked like this:
I don't know what command Discord was using prior to the launch-on-startup breaking, because back then I never had a reason to look. And, frankly, I don't know why this command syntax wasn't working. It launches if I run that command myself. Maybe something to do with the version number changing, I haven't tested that extensively. I also don't know if there was an explanation logged because I couldn't be bothered to dig for it.
I pretty quickly found that "/usr/bin/discord" would launch Discord just fine. So, just enter that in startup apps, right? Problem solved? No. Here's where things actually got stupid. Because I found that if I entered that as a startup app, the next time Discord ran, it would replace my entry with its own command, the same one from before. Which doesn't work. I thought maybe that was because I had the automatic start toggle on in the app, so I turned that off, redid the startup apps command again, and opened Discord. Which... then showed the toggle being on again? And I found that it had replaced my startup apps command AGAIN.
It kinda felt to me like Discord was looking for any entry in startup apps which contained the word "discord." And, if one were present, it was interpreting that as the toggle being on in the app, and it would replace that entry with its preferred startup command. I couldn't be bothered to screw with it for a while, because frankly I'm past the point in my life where I enjoy fiddling around trying to make my computer work, so I just launched Discord manually. Tonight, though, I finally decided I had a few minutes to confirm the theory. So, I made a script fix.sh containing only the command "/usr/bin/discord," and made an entry in startup apps for that script. Other than inside the script, it doesn't have the word "discord:"
Lo and behold, Discord now launches on startup. And because it doesn't think the startup launching is enabled, it isn't messing with the "startup apps" entry anymore.
Hi, basically I changed phones because my sister got a new phone and she gave me hers so I could replace my old one.
Before that, she used it perfectly, and I even watched screen recordings from her phone on my laptop and it looked fine. But since I reset it, now the screen is only half visible and it doesn't let me comfortably share the screen when I'm showing something to my friends. Any advice or ideas?