Discord Update: December 19, 2024 Changelog (opens in new tab)
Discord’s December 19, 2024 changelog recaps the year’s most useful performance and reliability improvements through a festive poem. The updates focused on making mobile apps more stable and responsive, speeding up servers, GIFs, chat, and APIs, and improving image quality and storage usage. Discord concludes by encouraging users to join voice, play games, or Go Live, while promoting Nitro gifting. ## Mobile Stability and Performance - iOS crash fixes reduced the overall crash rate by **84%**. - Android’s chat renderer reduced slow frames by up to **60%** and lowered chat-list memory usage by about **12%**. - The Android Expression Picker—covering emojis, GIFs, and stickers—saw up to **50% fewer dropped frames** and approximately **7.5% lower memory usage**. - Foldable-device support and multitasking were significantly improved. - Mobile server lists were virtualized so only visible servers remain loaded, improving scrolling performance. - Server switching on Android and iOS became more than **30% faster**. - Mobile GIF Picker loading times improved by up to **80%**. ## Backend and Media Improvements - Infrastructure changes, including moving to Google Cloud C3 instances and removing an Nginx layer, reduced p90+ API latency by roughly **25%**. - Discord’s media proxy now preserves ICC color-profile data when resizing images into WebP, improving color accuracy across platforms. - iOS data-storage changes reduced disk usage substantially; the most affected 1% of users went from approximately **5.7 GB to 1.7 GB**, with some users recovering up to **4 GB**. ## Seasonal Extras - The recap is presented as a “Fixmas” poem summarizing fixes from Discord’s 2024 Patch Notes. - Users who gift Nitro during the promotion also receive an Avatar Decoration. Together, these changes show Discord’s emphasis on incremental improvements that make everyday communication faster, more reliable, and less demanding on mobile devices.