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Discord Patch Notes: December 5, 2024 (opens in new tab)

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Discord’s December 5, 2024 patch focuses on performance improvements, mobile design updates, compatibility, and bug fixes across the platform. Major changes include refreshed mobile profiles, a 90%+ faster iOS Media Picker, Unicode 15.1 emoji support, animated WebP embeds, and Webhook Events for apps. Discord noted that updates may still be rolling out and that Patch Notes would pause until early February.

Major Product and Platform Updates

  • Mobile user profiles, including profile editing, were redesigned to more closely match the desktop experience.
  • The iOS Media Picker now loads images over 90% faster in most cases, with significantly less blank UI while content loads.
  • Unicode 15.1 emoji are supported; users may see placeholder or inconsistent emoji until they update their clients.
  • Desktop and web apps now support animated WebP content in embeds and favorites.
  • Animated emojis are requested in WebP instead of GIF to improve performance.
  • Webhook Events allow apps to receive events without maintaining gateway connections, which is useful for apps that do not require low latency.

General Fixes and Usability Improvements

  • Bluesky URLs now receive proper embed support.
  • Fixed profile banner cropping, profile button rendering, shortened URL unfurling, streaming activity titles, and role-name display issues.
  • Mobile profile notification dots, Android button icons, localization, Nitro gifting themes, and server profile menus received various fixes.
  • Blocking a user from their profile now requires confirmation.
  • Adding roles through “Add Members” is capped at 30 users to prevent silent failures.
  • Fixed notification content, share-screen layout, poll-result indicators, and channel permission prompts.
  • Android incoming call notifications now show display names instead of usernames.

Chat and Messaging

  • Message drafts now remain associated with the correct DM instead of moving between DM notifications.
  • Fixed emoji autocomplete in full-screen Text in Voice, user mentions displaying IDs, and iOS handling of text following an “@” symbol.
  • Thread creation, attachment layouts, typing indicators, chat input spacing, onboarding bars, and message forwarding themes were corrected.
  • Fixed unread mention indicators affecting surrounding background colors.
  • On iOS, opening certain threads no longer incorrectly navigates to the thread creator’s profile.

Activities and Apps

  • Fixed username rendering problems in Activities on some servers.
  • App authorization widgets no longer incorrectly ask users to scroll when no scrollbar is present.

Audio and Video

  • Corrected missing circular backgrounds on voice controls and sizing problems with Activity buttons in calls.
  • Switching between Push to Talk and Voice Activity now reliably reactivates Voice Activity.
  • Fixed Android microphone failures when sharing another application.
  • Resolved an iOS screen-sharing failure affecting app version 253; updating is required for affected users.
  • Fixed the mobile post-call feedback dialog and adjusted call-status icon styling.
  • On iOS speaker mode, the proximity sensor should no longer turn off the screen unexpectedly during calls.