Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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[–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's Stoat now! https://stoat.chat/

I recently joined! It's very close to Discord.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    No VOIP? That's the only reason I ever use discord, when my friends force me to so I can talk while we play games. Guess teamspeak is still king

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    No video call or screen share either from what I can tell, which is uhhh pretty major to day the least. That said, it's not like I need only use one platform at a time. I'll probably get on that and start using it and hope that they add those things in the future. But yeah, I'm not sure if I would call it close to Discord right now.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They have voice chat channels in Stoat, or are you wanting p2p calls?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    No just voice channels, I'm glad they have them but it was completely missing from their marketing on the website. Just says "text channels done right" and there isn't a single line about voice support

    Edit, found a reddit post from about a month ago which is copied below. So it looks like it barely supports voice so far.

    "Apparently The voice chat feature has been brought back in stoat

    It only works in the desktop version though. Mobile devices you're going to have to wait a bit longer though.

    Otherwise the quality of it is really really good but you will experience a massive delay in your voice being sent through the voice medium. It's about 800 millisecond delay even with the fastest speeds. But at least it's something. "

    GitHub issue on the topic

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone else not receiving the verification email? Doesn't seem to work for me.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I think it took a long time for me the first time. They seem way smaller than Discord, so I imagine they don't have the fastest infrastructure. Also, I signed up with a non-gmail account and their verification email did make it through eventually.

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