Discord is best known for being a messaging app. However, thanks to its native apps and features, as well as the ability to install additional and external apps, it can be extended to be much more than that.
The fact that you can host your own community, and get involved in other communities, means you don’t have to enjoy Discord’s features alone, either. Whether you’re into gaming, movies, or learning new things, Discord can broaden your horizons and enhance your entertainment.
Play Casino Games
Discord casino games can be installed in the messaging app. These games use the same random number generators that traditional online casinos use, which means that players can enjoy fair gaming and have an opportunity to win real money. A wide range of games are available and cryptocurrency payments are accepted.
Learn New Languages
There are Discord servers for just about everything, including learning languages. There are more than ten international languages offered on official Discord servers, offering weekly language lessons and opportunities to chat with other members in your chosen language.
Learning a new language is a lot easier, and more efficient when you can talk with others and when you can practice regularly. Discord’s server popularity means this is always an option, while its selection of foreign languages means you can pick up virtually any popular language. There are likely unofficial language-learning servers you can also join for lesser-known languages.
Get Motivated
Discord has a motivational quote app you can install – the MotivatlyBot. If that isn’t enough for you, use the power of community to help encourage and maintain motivation.
Sharing your successes, failures, and concerns can all help foster motivation. Set up or join a discord server for your community. This could be a freelance working server, for example. Or, it could be a creative writing server. Encourage others to join in the conversation, and use the server to hold yourself and others accountable. If your community expects you to write for 30 minutes a day and share your results, you’ll find yourself much more likely to go through with it than if you sit at home alone attempting the same challenge.
Hold Game Tournaments
Discord has lots of native apps for gaming and once you have a solid community, you can use these apps to host your own gaming events and tournaments.
Alternatively, you can arrange a tournament involving other games. There are plenty of online gaming sites, even including online board gaming sites. While they will arrange and host the games, they don’t have the same level of chat and community features as Discord.
Have A Trivia Quiz
The pub quiz is an enjoyable and iconic night out in a lot of countries, typically popular in the UK and Australia. But, you don’t have to leave the house to enjoy the thrills.
Invite your community to participate in a trivia quiz. You can either host the quiz at a specific time or post a question every few hours. Having everybody on the server at the same time reduces the risk of competitors just Googling every question, although there is always a risk of fast typers still being able to do that, so you will have to rely on a degree of honesty from participants.
Stream Movies With Friends
You can add sites like Netflix as gaming apps and then use these apps to share content with friends. Remember to disable hardware acceleration after you’ve installed the app, and consider having a theme for your movie night.
Otherwise, you can sit back, eat snacks without interrupting others, and even join in text-based chat with other viewers. Alternatively, you can host a music night and let everybody listen to themed tunes or specific music styles. You can even have them join in by making it a karaoke party.
Have A Short Story Competition
Writing prompts are used by creative writers to help them come up with ideas or backstories for new pieces. There are writing prompt competitions and websites dedicated to the regular provision of writing prompts for this very purpose.
If you’re part of a creative writing server, or your community has a few creative thinkers, and writers who are happy using their phones for writing short stories, publish a writing prompt in the server, set a deadline, and have everybody submit a story. The community can then vote for their favorite story and a winner announced.
