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How to Customize Your Discord Profile (opens in new tab)

Discord profiles are designed to help users express their identity through avatars, server affiliations, gaming interests, statuses, and visual effects. The post explains where to edit these settings on desktop and mobile, then outlines customization options ranging from profile widgets to Shop items and Nitro features. Overall, it encourages users to tailor their profile to make a memorable first impression. ## Editing Your Discord Profile - On desktop, open **User Settings** using the gear icon, then select **Edit Profiles**. - On mobile, open the **You** tab and tap **Edit Profile**. - Click or tap your profile icon to preview how others see your profile. ## Choosing an Avatar - Use **Change Avatar** in the profile editor to upload an image from your device. - Nitro members can use animated avatars. - Canceling an avatar upload before confirming prevents the upload from counting toward Discord’s rapid-upload throttle. - Users can also display a **Server Tag** next to their name and on their profile. - Server Tags are available when a server has enough boosts and its administrators enable the feature. ## Showing Off Your Games Desktop users can add Profile Widgets that highlight their gaming interests, including: - Favorite Game - Games in Rotation - Games I Like - Want to Play These widgets let users showcase current games, backlogs, and recommendations. ## Sharing Activities and Statuses - Users can add a short custom status message from their profile icon. - Statuses can be set to expire after a chosen period or remain indefinitely. - Connected accounts can automatically display activities such as: - Games played on PlayStation or Xbox - Music listened to on Spotify - Anime watched through Crunchyroll ## Customizing Profiles Through the Shop The Discord Shop provides cosmetic additions that affect profiles and other parts of the app: - **Avatar Decorations:** Frames and animated effects around avatars, visible in profiles and text chats. - **Profile Effects:** Large animations displayed when someone opens a profile. - **Nameplates:** Decorative designs shown behind display names in server member lists and direct messages. ## Nitro Profile Features Nitro members receive additional customization options, including access to more advanced profile features and the ability to maintain multiple profiles.

How to Share What You’re Playing, Listening to, or Watching as Your Status on Discord (opens in new tab)

Discord lets users share their current gaming, music, or anime activity as a profile status. The post explains how to connect supported platforms and enable automatic activity sharing, while also showing how to hide individual activities or disable sharing entirely. ## Sharing PC Games - The Discord desktop app can display games or other applications running on Windows, macOS, or Linux. - If a game is not detected automatically, go to **User Settings > Registered Games** and select **“Add it!”** - Use the eye toggles beside registered games to prevent specific titles from appearing as your status. ## Sharing Console Games - Link a PlayStation or Xbox account through **User Settings > Connections**. - Enable **“Display PlayStation Network as your status”** or **“Display Xbox as your status.”** - Supported consoles include PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. - Xbox Cloud Gaming titles can also appear as Discord activity when streamed from supported Xbox devices. ## Sharing Spotify Music - Connect Spotify through **User Settings > Connections**. - Turn on **“Display Spotify as your status.”** - Discord will show the song currently playing in Spotify when both services are being used on the same computer. ## Sharing Crunchyroll Anime - Link Crunchyroll from **User Settings > Connections**. - After signing in and authorizing the connection, Discord can automatically display the anime being watched. ## Controlling Activity Visibility - Disable all automatic activity sharing through **User Settings > Activity Privacy** by turning off **“Share my activity.”** - To hide only certain platforms, use the individual visibility controls under **User Settings > Connections**. - These settings control whether games, music, and anime appear in the user’s Discord status. Overall, users can make their Discord status more informative by connecting supported services, while the privacy controls allow them to share selectively or remain completely incognito.

Discord Patch Notes: April 3, 2025 (opens in new tab)

Discord’s April 3, 2025 patch focuses on usability, reliability, performance, and bug fixes across desktop and mobile. Major updates include Overlay v3, improved mobile navigation to unread messages, smarter Quick Switcher rankings, and expanded server-joining controls. The release also addresses numerous localization, layout, permissions, rendering, and chat issues. ## Major Highlights - **Overlay v3** was released, with Discord encouraging users—especially those dissatisfied with earlier Overlay versions—to try it. - Mobile users should now reach the oldest unread message in a busy channel with a single tap on the “new messages” indicator. - Quick Switcher channel-ranking logic was refined to improve search results and navigation across multiple servers. ## Server Access and Community Management - Users can set a server nickname and configure DM permissions during the invite-based joining process. - Servers can now use the Membership Application system, requiring approval before users join. This is managed through the new **Access** tab in Server Settings. - The built-in Timeout command was fixed and should once again accept valid durations. - Moderator actions from a user’s profile now work correctly even when that user has blocked the moderator. - The server ban list no longer displays stray parentheses after usernames. ## Interface, Navigation, and Performance Fixes - Keyboard navigation in Quest Discovery now expands the selected tile. - Desktop popouts should appear where they were opened instead of at the top-left corner. - The Shop’s “Shop All” section received performance improvements. - The back button now correctly returns users to Server Discovery after joining a server. - Numerous alignment and rendering problems were fixed across voice channels, profile popouts, MFA setup, Safety settings, code blocks, emoji, banners, and mobile screens. - Mobile issues involving blank screens after leaving Group DMs, scrolling Nitro perks, emoji-picker navigation, and poll-result overlap were resolved. ## Localization and Content Display - Fixed missing or incorrect translations in UK English, Japanese, and other localized interfaces. - Corrected event text, Quest minute pluralization, Nitro Home banner alignment, and Prune Members UI rendering. - Markdown in Scheduled Events and information in voice-chat profile popouts should now display properly. - Search results should once again show messages correctly. ## Chat and Threads - Mastodon embeds now provide better support for images, videos, formatting, styling, and a broader range of posts. - Spotify embeds in Text in Voice channels should scale correctly. - Mobile users no longer need to provide a thread name, matching the desktop experience. - Users are no longer incorrectly prompted to create a thread when they lack permission to send messages but can create threads. - Slowmode messages should display their full text instead of only the first few letters. - Users with the necessary permissions can lock and unlock mobile threads without joining them first. Overall, the patch is primarily a broad maintenance release, combining several visible feature improvements with a large number of cross-platform fixes. Users should see smoother navigation, more reliable chat behavior, and better consistency between desktop and mobile experiences.

Discord Patch Notes: March 11, 2025 (opens in new tab)

Discord’s March 11, 2025 patch focuses on reliability, media processing, sharing, and broad bug fixes across desktop and mobile. Major improvements include safer API deployments, more accurate HDR-to-SDR conversion, faster and more reliable Spotify embeds, a redesigned Android sharing flow, and an Electron upgrade. The release also addresses numerous issues affecting chat, profiles, search, notifications, emoji pickers, and mobile rendering. ## Reliability and Platform Improvements - Discord changed its API deployment strategy to isolate critical services and reduce the impact of reliability incidents. - Desktop clients were upgraded from Electron 33.0.0 to 33.4.0. - HDR-to-SDR tone mapping was improved for more accurate colors in HDR images and videos converted for SDR display. - Spotify embeds now have approximately: - 83% lower p95 latency - 88% fewer failures - Android’s share interface was redesigned to resemble Discord’s message-forwarding experience. - Fixes may continue rolling out across platforms after the patch’s publication. ## General Interface and Account Fixes - Fixed Soundboard previews that could loop indefinitely after an upload was canceled. - Improved iOS performance when opening search and collapsing long channel topics. - Restored functionality for favorited GIFs and corrected poll avatars to use server-specific profiles. - Fixed iOS animation rendering failures and inconsistent Rich Presence display in member lists. - Improved mobile modal, emoji picker, GIF picker, and keyboard behavior. - Corrected several profile, server profile, custom status, pop-out, and profile preview issues. - Fixed server creation, friend request notifications, invite-link dropdowns, and Add Friends interface problems. - Improved desktop User Management sizing, Server Settings search, and member-search placeholder text. - Corrected mobile and desktop alignment, padding, hover states, button sizing, and masked channel-topic links. - Fixed duplicate known-device entries during two-factor authentication setup. - Message reaction notifications should now respect Do Not Disturb on mobile. ## Chat and Messaging - Empty Group DMs no longer display undefined users. - Fixed Server Guide popups that could obscure message editing. - Improved truncation and reliability for typing indicators. - Fixed iOS reply views where message text or input could become hidden. - Android users can now rename Group DMs. - Corrected Android reply themes and Emoji Confetti menu rendering. - Closing an unread DM on mobile no longer leaves an empty unread space in the server list. - Deleted messages can once again be acknowledged, preventing stale notification indicators. - Corrected Android permission interactions between sending messages and creating threads. - Fixed 24px chat font sizing, mobile DM alignment, and missing “Mark as Read” or “Reply” notification actions. ## Activities and Apps - The patch also begins addressing Activity behavior on iOS, including an issue involving Activity open and close sounds; the supplied post ends before the full Activities and Apps section is provided.

What’s new in Figma: December 2021 | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Figma’s December 2021 updates focus on making collaboration and creation more seamless across Figma and FigJam. The release adds richer media support, improved drawing tools, and expanded mobile capabilities. Together, these changes help teams share context, refine ideas, and preview designs without interrupting their workflow. ## Enriching FigJam collaboration - Users can paste links into FigJam to watch Vimeo videos, play Spotify music, and share other rich media. - The new Vimeo plugin supports screen and webcam recordings directly within Figma and FigJam. - Recordings can be used for status updates, product demos, tutorials, and asynchronous collaboration. ## Highlighting and refining ideas - The new **Highlighter** tool emphasizes text and other FigJam elements. - Holding **Shift** while highlighting creates perfectly straight lines. - The **Eraser** tool removes individual strokes, making it easier to correct sketches and refine work in progress. ## Expanding mobile design workflows The updated Figma mobile app lets designers preview, review, and manage work more independently from a desktop. - Play prototypes directly on mobile devices. - Toggle hotspot hints during prototype playback. - Mirror selected desktop frames to a mobile device. - Share, browse, and view Figma files and prototypes. - Share, browse, and view FigJam files. - Navigate teams, projects, and workspaces from the app. - Updates are available for iOS and Android phones and tablets. Figma’s December release is primarily about removing friction from collaboration: teams can communicate with richer media, improve FigJam ideation with more precise tools, and validate mobile experiences directly on their devices.

How Figma helped Sounds app reach 150k likes on Facebook | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Sounds app grew its Facebook page from a neglected channel with 14,000 fans and roughly 20 likes per post to more than 150,000 likes in under five months. Instead of hiring an agency, the company used audience research, reusable Figma templates, and modest targeted ad spending to create more engaging content in-house. The result was stronger organic reach at a fraction of the projected agency cost. ## Starting with Limited Resources - Sounds app’s marketing lead also handled community management, artist relations, and customer support. - An outside agency would have cost approximately $3,000–$5,000 or more per month, excluding advertising. - Facebook initially produced about 20 likes per post and reached only around 500 of the page’s 14,000 followers. ## Building a Repeatable Content Process - The team analyzed successful Facebook pages in the music, media, and app categories to identify high-performing content formats. - The designer created branded templates that could be quickly adapted with different artist images. - Templates were built in Figma rather than Photoshop so a non-designer could edit them easily. ## Figma Enabled Faster Collaboration - Figma worked across platforms, avoided expensive software licenses, and offered an approachable interface. - After a Slack session and a short screen-recorded tutorial, the marketing lead could create and publish content independently. - This eliminated delays caused by coordinating with a designer in another time zone and made it possible to act on ideas immediately. ## Measuring Results with Small Ad Budgets - The team began publishing Figma-created content in late October 2017 and used custom Branch links to track app downloads. - Posts that previously received 10–20 likes began generating thousands of likes, comments, and shares. - Weekly reach exceeded one million, and Facebook page likes grew to 60,000 by February 2018 and more than 150,000 the following month. - The team typically spent about $5 per post, increasing to $10 for especially successful content, with daily Facebook and Instagram spending capped at $25. - Paid reach generated additional organic sharing, increasing overall visibility. ## Lessons for Small Marketing Teams - Non-designers can produce effective social content when given channel-specific templates and accessible tools. - Successful social marketing depends more on understanding the audience and its preferred content than on formal marketing credentials. - Limited budgets can still produce substantial growth when teams experiment, measure results, and refine their approach. - The in-house strategy cost less than $3,000 in ad spending, compared with an estimated $20,000 for an agency over the same period. For lean teams, the article recommends combining reusable templates, audience research, tracking links, and controlled experimentation instead of assuming social growth requires an expensive agency.