Exclusive: Discord is getting threads – this is what it looks like - Techradar

Update: We added a video of Discord threads – embedded below via YouTube – in action, and it looks slick.

Discord keeps evolving and growing, especially after its user base spiked during the pandemic, and the app is finally adding Threads – we just don't know when yet.

The Discord Threads update is still in its early testing phase, and is just being phased out to bot developers so that they can make sure their work is compatible whenever the feature does indeed launch. .

While these do help a bit with keeping conversations going when 30 people are all talking about different things, it can still be hard to keep track of the conversation, and it seems like the Discord Threads feature is supposed to counter that. .

We don't know when this feature will be going live, as right now it's limited to bot developers with servers under 5 users and 1 bot.

The way it works right now – and again it's in an early testing phase – is that you can mouse over a message in a channel with Threads enabled, and there will be an icon that looks like a hashtag with a speech bubble on the lower right corner. .

I only tested this on desktop, so I can't say how it'll work on mobile right now, but it will open on the right side of your Discord window, so you can view the thread next to the main chat.

Beneath the main channel where the Thread was started, you'll see a directory of Threads, which you can easily navigate to the conversation you were looking for!

I know that when I'm just trying to talk with friends in my Final Fantasy XIV community, especially when, say, there's a new expansion being announced, there can be hundreds of messages going off about various different subjects.

With threads, that conversation is pinned under the channel, so it's easy to go back to it even after hundreds of other messages have filled the main Discord channel.