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Discord Patch Notes: November 1, 2024 (opens in new tab)

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Discord’s November 1, 2024 patch focuses on improving performance, reliability, responsiveness, and cross-device usability. Major updates include stronger foldable-device support, better mobile multitasking and side-by-side views, macOS screen-sharing keybinds, and website performance gains of up to four seconds in average page-load time. The release also fixes a broad range of interface, messaging, theming, and platform-specific bugs.

Foldable Devices and Multitasking

  • Foldable devices receive improved support designed to work more reliably without bespoke fixes.
  • Mobile Discord now handles resizing more intelligently for Sidecar, split-screen, and other multitasking layouts.
  • Users are encouraged to report remaining foldable-device issues through Discord’s bug megathread or support tickets.

Desktop and Web Performance

  • Electron was upgraded from version 30 to version 32 on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Discord.com received performance improvements that reduce average page-load times by up to four seconds.
  • Additional core web vitals and responsiveness were improved.
  • macOS 15 and later now support a keybind for toggling screen sharing, available under User Settings > Keybinds.
  • Friend links opened in a browser now properly communicate with the running desktop client.

General Interface and Platform Fixes

  • Fixed missing profile-screen actions, incorrect profile banner zoom, navigation-bar rendering issues, and mobile layout shifts.
  • Corrected avatar decoration overlap with unread-message status indicators.
  • Fixed notification bubble shapes, emoji-picker category navigation, theme colors, keybinding icon colors, and long category-name handling.
  • Improved profile banners and Server Guide text rendering on foldable devices and iOS.
  • Fixed issues involving onboarding prompts, the App Launcher, Mod View, channel permissions, and role assignment through Simplified Profiles.
  • Corrected Shop problems involving banners, scrolling, collection tile shapes, and app-button icon colors.
  • Poll answers can now be selected and copied.
  • Fixed overlay custom-emoji visibility, profile-effect controls, Nitro gifting padding, and collectible purchase wording.
  • X.com embeds no longer incorrectly interpret embed content as Markdown.
  • Fixed several mobile and desktop rendering problems, including channel settings flashes, emoji alignment, and profile layout behavior.

Chat and Messaging

  • Corrected oversized emoji rendering in chat.
  • Fixed mobile Voice Message tooltips, input placement, and animation behavior.
  • Deleted messages should no longer briefly remain in mobile DM previews.
  • Fixed an iOS issue where drafts persisted between channels and another where text scaling changed after the keyboard collapsed.
  • Users can open profiles by clicking names in reply previews.
  • Prevented rapidly renaming a newly created thread from creating duplicate threads.
  • Fixed thread-creation theming issues and swipe actions during chat animations.
  • Corrected mobile notification settings appearing incorrectly in DMs.
  • Fixed iOS emoji alignment problems in messages.

Overall, the patch is primarily a quality-of-life release: users should see better performance across web and mobile, more dependable support for foldables and multitasking, and fewer visual and interaction bugs.