It could even trip some bot automod for being seen as message spam, which is also problematic. This would often lead to large amounts of uploads hitting the message ratelimit on Desktop clients, cuasing you to have to re-upload several images. This has never been true for the Desktop clients, which would create a new message for every single image attachment. Multi-attachment uploadsįor a long time, mobile users have been able to upload several images to Discord at once in a single message. Teams having the freedom to pick up projects like this one that result in a more accessible, improved experience in our core client is a core part of Discord culture. The overall project took a little longer than we expected due to the multi-upload portion of it, but it's a feature we're all incredibly excited about. The Accessibility team was a great resource for guidance and design considerations they had an impact outside of just alt text too, helping with the design and implementation of keyboard navigation controls for instance. This is a feature that users had been requesting for a long time we worked with Discord's accessibility team to design what the experience would look like, and set about implementing it. During the designing of this experience, we realized two things - one, it was a perfect opportunity to introduce multi-upload to Desktop, and two we would be able to add user provided alt text to the new system. Since the selling point of slash commands is to have excellent UX and built-in integrated UI, we wanted to find a solution we felt met our bar.Īfter some design revisions, we settled on the inline attachment uploader we demonstrated at a recent Discord Developers stage event.
We invited a Discord engineer to talk about the feature: When working on the attachment slash command option type, the Bots and API team realized that the current modal based UI presented a lot of challenges for a seamless UX for uploading attachments to slash commands. The new alt text feature, while long overdue, keeps this trend going.
From screen reader optimisation to the more recently released saturation sliders, a11y seems to be at the forefront of many Discord features. The strives Discord makes in having their platform easy to use for those with impairments is inspiring and standout in their industry.
In this detailed patchnote we'll cover:ĭiscord has always held a11y concerns and features close to heart. Use any phrase, number combination, or words to link to your server.Discord have been laying the groundwork for some really exciting potential features as well as releasing some quality of life additions to help users with a11y concerns. Level 3 also gives you access to a vanity URL to use as you see fit. You really can’t go further for Go Live streaming quality, so Discord gives you a higher upload limit. You also get another bump in audio quality at 384Kbps. But your emoji slot count jumps up to 250 with an extra 100 added for this level. Level 3 w/ 30 Server BoostsĪs you may have guessed already, Level 3 grants you all access to everything that comes in the prior levels.
You also get better audio quality at 256 Kbps and your Go Live streams get another boost to 1080P 60FPS.Īdditionally, Level 2 gets you a server banner as well as 50MB upload limit to the server for all members, the ability to create private threads, and a 1 week archive option for last activity on threads. You get 50 more emoji slots for a grand total of 150 when you include Level 1, too. When you unlock Level 2 you get all the perks from Level 1 and then some. You also get a customer server invite background as well as an animated server icon. To top it off, Discord is now offering 3 day archive options for threads and their last activity.
You’re looking at a bump up to 720P 60 FPS for Go Live. In addition, your live streams get a boost as well. You also get a sweet 128 Kbps boost in audio quality. This is what the level breakdown looks like: Level 1 w/ 2 Server Boostsįirst, you get an extra 50 Emoji slots bringing up your grand total to 100 emojis. But you need people to use their Server Boosts towards your server for this to work. If it all goes smoothly, the next screen you’ll see is one celebrating your new Server Boost.Įach unlocked level comes with a variety of perks. When you’re fine with everything displayed on the payment page, click on the Purchase button to complete your Boost.