Discord is a communication platform originally designed for gaming communities that has grown into a widely used tool for real-time voice, video, and text collaboration. It organizes conversations into servers and channels, allowing communities to create structured spaces for different topics, projects, or teams. Discord supports features such as threaded discussions, screen sharing, stage channels for events, and a rich ecosystem of bots and integrations. It has become popular among open-source projects, educational groups, and citizen-science communities as an accessible platform for distributed collaboration and community building. It is particularly relevant in Software Engineering, Citizen Science, Arts & Culture and Education.

Discord supports community-based, distributed and open source collaboration and is suited for small teams and community-scale initiatives in remote settings.

Discord is an established tool with a solid track record of use across multiple contexts. It is a proprietary platform, available on Web, macOS, Windows, Linux.