Discord For Dummies

Chapter 2

Hailing Frequencies Open

IN THIS CHAPTER

Inviting people to your server

Setting up channels

Creating posts

Conducting chats

The setup for Discord may feel a bit intense. There’s a lot to the application, but when you consider Discord’s aim to truly make this application your own, it makes sense. The developers set out to create a place that you could truly call your own and customize it as much as possible. And if you’ve got dev skills, the sky’s the limit. So yes, we have successfully worked through a lot of behind-the-scenes details.

But let’s get to what Discord was made for: communication.

Instead of giving you a hard shove into the deep end of the pool, you are going to want to master the most basic form of comms in Discord. I’m speaking of the text features, which, a bit like the preferences of the application, are vast and detailed. They are also easy to pick up and “git gud” at, as gamers would say.

Before we get to talking, we really should get people in our network to talk with. (Stands to reason, doesn’t it?) So let’s start building that community we will be cultivating ...