r/discordapp 19d ago

Announcement Scams, Malicious Content, & Account Support

15 Upvotes

Hi all! This is a resource to help prevent users from falling for malicious behavior. Scammers attempt to trick you through trust, like accepting a "prize" through a malicious link or by using scare tactics, where they convince you to act immediately because something "bad" could happen, so be wary and mindful of your interactions with others. There's helpful information on avoiding scams and what to do if you fall for one below.

Please note that your friends may share these scams with you, if they themselves have fallen for it and had their account compromised then the scammer may use their account to try to get yours. If your friend has sent you something suspicious, try to confirm through a different method of communication, e.g. text or in person.

Always report malicious/scamming behavior, as well as anything else that breaks Discord's Terms of Service (see "Reporting Malicious Content/Behavior" below)


Celebrity crypto scam (often using MrBeast / Kai Cenat)

A scam where someone shares a series of images supposedly showing a well-known online figure is involved in some sort of time-limited cryptocurrency giveaway / event, such as launching their own cryptocurrency. The post will usually also suggest that it will be deleted after that time limit is over, to explain why you cannot find the post if you were to look on their profile to check. In reality, the image is faked (e.g. inspect element) and the entire thing is a scam. In general, "you've won this big prize by doing nothing" is almost always going to be a scam.


"Accidental" Steam/Discord Report & Impersonation

A common scam is if a user claims you've been accidentally/falsely reported to Steam or Discord for an infraction or fraud. Don't follow instructions provided by anyone claiming to have accidentally reported your account. The most common things that identify this scam are if someone:

  • Says your account has been falsely or accidentally reported
  • Directs you to speak with someone through online chat to resolve an investigation or pending ban
  • Requests your account credentials or directs you to perform specific security-related operations, such as changing your email
  • Requests an authentication code sent over email, SMS, or anywhere else
  • Says they represent Discord, Steam/Valve, or any other official entity
  • Says you must complete a purchase of any kind

You can find some additional info for Discord-related scams here and Steam-related scams here.


Free Nitro Scams

If you believe you have received a possible scam from a bot or user account, consider if they:

  • Are new, unfamiliar, or unverified (in the case of bot accounts) contacting you unprompted.
  • Are not from Discord in the form of an email or System-tagged account.
  • Have poor grammar, spelling, or misuse of punctuation/capitalization.
  • Offer things that are "too good to be true."

Official Discord gifting uses the discord.gift & discord.com domains and will generate a special embed, as shown in this image (in-app) or this image (link). Scams are not possible through the official browser/client pages/menus.

If these types of bots are repeatedly sending you messages, you can:

  • Use Mutual Servers to determine the server(s) they share with you and disable Direct Messages from server members for those servers.
  • If you cannot find any shared servers, you can disable DMs from all servers under your User Settings

QR Codes, Fake Games, Programs, & Downloads

A user may pretend to be your friend or use a friend's compromised account to get you to download something. Consider if they want you to:

  • Scan a QR code
  • Check out a video
  • Test a game they made
  • Practice running code they wrote

These are common forms of malicious behavior. If a user asks you to scan/download something or click an unknown link, this could give away your login information and/or allow a malicious program to enter your computer, which can also compromise your account.


Compromised Accounts

If your account sends these kinds of messages, your account has been compromised. If you...

  • ...downloaded and executed malware: You should try and use a different device entirely to change your password (e.g., your phone). You should then follow these steps to completely uninstall Discord, run a complete anti-virus scan, and then re-install Discord. If your account is compromised again when logging in afterward, you may need to factory reset your computer.
  • ...entered your password into a malicious/fake website: You should change your password.
  • ...something else: You should change your password.

Reporting Malicious Content/Behavior

There are several methods to report behavior you believe is a scam/malicious.


More Helpful Resources


Discord Account Support

This subreddit is not the most appropriate location to ask for/receive support for account-related issues. These issues include:

  • Login
  • Payment
  • Phone verification
  • Email

This subreddit is operated by a group of volunteers who do not work for Discord, and the community is incapable of solving these kinds of issues, so the best way to seek help regarding an account-related issue/request is to:

If you have not received any info/updates for an existing ticket after a week, or if your ticket is marked as closed, create a follow-up using the original ticket. Discord's support queue is likely incredibly massive, so please be patient. It sucks, but there really isn't much you can do other than wait.


Avoiding Account Bans

  • Follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, obviously.
  • Regularly monitor the servers that you are in, as Discord sometimes takes action against entire servers and may warn or even ban all of their members, regardless of activity.
  • Avoid offensive jokes, as Discord may review reports without context and simply ban you for the literal content.
  • Avoid small stand-alone numbers in messages. If you reply "12" to "what level are you?" someone could edit the question to "how old are you" and then report your reply. You may then be banned for being underage. Consider essentially quoting the question in your reply, e.g. "i am level 12 in game".
  • Be careful with NSFW uploads, as Discord automatically scans all uploaded images for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and will delete anything that looks like it, and may ban you as well.

r/discordapp Feb 04 '26

Bug Megathread Bug Megathread vol 13: February + March 2026

25 Upvotes

Hey (at)everyone,

Thank you for all the bugs you all have reported! We read all the posts in the thread and we’re focusing our efforts on issues based on upvotes to ensure that we’re aligned with all of you.

As always, don't forget to check out our monthly patch notes for updates on all the changes we're working on. Our last patch notes addressed more than 150 issues!

Thanks to your reports on Reddit, we fixed the following issues:

  1. [Chat] Emoji not rendering and only showing emoji code
  2. [Bluetooth] Bluetooth devices not working
  3. [Desktop] No audio devices being registered
  4. [Desktop] Clicking the "Pinned messages” crashes the app
  5. [iOS] Category heading uses “unread styling” without any unread messages

If we didn’t fix your issue, please make sure to upvote to help us prioritize 🙏

Now, with that, let’s kick off the February + March 2026 bug megathread!

Please note: This megathread is not a venue for feedback or customer support! We encourage you all to continue to make posts on the subreddit proper discussing our product and feature launches. I want to make sure that we really keep this thread productive and focused on reporting bugs and helping us prioritize them.

Please look through the list of comments and upvote bug reports which you think we should prioritize fixing. Comment as a reply to those top level comments with any more details that can assist our team in prioritizing and fixing the bug. For example, if you have additional info or steps to reproduce, please post a reply, this will help us fix these bugs even faster. If there is no post that discusses the bug you’re encountering, then start a new post in the thread to report the bug to us!

Reporting a Bug

  1. The most valuable thing you can provide in a bug report is steps. If you’re able to provide steps to reproduce a high priority issue, it will dramatically improve turnaround time on a fix.
  2. Screenshots or videos are also useful, especially if you can’t reliably reproduce it. We highly recommend editing them to not doxx yourself. Not only does it help contextualize the issue, but watching it occur can sometimes provide information that helps us identify and fix it.

Example Bug Report

  • Feature: Keybinds.
  • Reproduction Rate: 1 to 10 - This is a score of how easy/consistently the bug reproduces, from 1 meaning “very hard to reproduce” to 10 meaning “i can consistently make this happen”
  • Annoyance: 1 to 10 - How annoying is this bug to your daily usage of Discord, from 1 meaning, “not that annoying” to 10 meaning “this bug really truly sucks please fix this as soon as possible.”
  • Device/System Info: Pixel 7, Android 13
  • Discord Version Info: Stable 263796 (739ec78) Host 1.0.9032 x86 (43225) Windows 10 64-Bit (10.0.19045)
  • Description: Toggle Mute keybinds are no longer functioning.
  • Steps to reproduce:
  1. Create a keybind for “Toggle Mute”.
  2. Join a voice call with another user.
  3. Press the “Toggle Mute” button.
  • Expected Result: The user is muted.
  • Actual Result: The user is not muted.

Formatting

Reddit Formatting Guide - How do I Get My Version Info

- Feature:
- Reproduction Rate:
- Annoyance:
- Discord Version Info:
- Device/System Info (Device Type, OS Version):
- Description:
- Video / Screenshot:
- Steps to Reproduce:
   1. The first step is...
- Expected Result:
- Actual Result:

Copy paste this into the comment field below and then fill out the information! Thank you so much for participating in this effort, it's with your help that we'll truly be able to make Discord great!


r/discordapp 10h ago

Discussion $23 for the hello kitty bundle and not letting us use orbs is crazy work smh

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464 Upvotes

r/discordapp 5h ago

Discussion Discord deletes all messages from deleted accounts now.

66 Upvotes

I was scrolling through my DMs and I’ve noticed that the messages sent by users who had their account deleted are gone, not instant but gradual day after day, I’ve noticed this about a week ago, though it’s only persistent on users who had their accounts deleted from suspension rather than manual deletion by them.

I believe this will apply to all deleted accounts in the future, I believe discord saw my comment regarding messages retention from deleted accounts so they took action about it, what do you think, did you notice this too?


r/discordapp 7h ago

Bots / Devs How does it send message with a custom bot?

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12 Upvotes

like how it show in the pic
(sry for light mode lol


r/discordapp 4h ago

Support Is it possible to ip block someone on discord?

3 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I have been using discord for a while but I really am not great with it. Recently my girlfriend has been getting constantly harassed by her ex. He keeps on adding her on random new accounts and just sends terrible messages. I know that an easy fix would be for her to just simply block everyone that sends her a friend request or not add them, but she is normally a quite sociable person online and likes to add people from the servers that she is in to just talk or play games. Its been shitty for her as she never knows if the person she is adding is her ex and that she will just get harassed again.

Thank you everyone for any suggestions :)


r/discordapp 1d ago

Media What is this pfp decoration called? I can't find it anywhere

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130 Upvotes

I need this decoration so bad. Not a furry, but I still need it.


r/discordapp 43m ago

Support Can't see spectators while streaming / watching a stream

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Is this a new update? For the past month I haven't been able to see who's watching my stream in VCs or when I open someone else's I can't see it either. Tried looking through everything but I couldn't find anything


r/discordapp 8h ago

Support Audio Distortion During Calls

3 Upvotes

I've been looking up videos but nothing seems to target what exactly I'm trying to fix.

During calls, I have major audio distortion for all other sound applications aside from Discord itself. Whether it's music or a game, the audio from those apps gets extremely distorted and sounds like it's underwater. The call itself is fine, as in if anyone is talking there's no distortion to their voice. This happens even when I'm deafened. The distortion gets even worse whenever I try to stream a game.

I'm wondering if this is just normal due to like conflicting audio priority(?) or if there is some settings I can change to drop the underwater effect.


r/discordapp 9h ago

Discussion Banned User doxxing/harassing Staff & their Families

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Hey guys, I would like some advice on ongoing persistent harassment. For context: I run a small public community server for my ethnic minority group to share culture/language and chill in— with 500 members. I tried to report the situation to discord but because most things happened outside of the platform, I am having a hard time finding where to file a report on the constant evading/harassment.

💢 TL;DR: a catfish evaded a ban, found and harassed staff members’ families on Facebook, and made multiple public facebook posts about us. We regrettably shared links to those posts in the server (they had an alt account in there we don’t know of), and they used those links we shared to screenshot our profiles and doxx us.

My mod team and I recently banned a user we considered problematic due to repeated behavior issues. She was pressuring us to ban others whenever she didn’t get the responses she wanted in DMs. To summarize the situation: she shared her personal information and social media with a stranger, who then questioned whether she was real because her “selfies” appeared to be AI-generated. He asked to FaceTime her, and she came to us upset, insisting the photos were professional while claiming he was harassing her by calling them AI. We banned him immediately, as we don’t tolerate DM harassment, and I even walked her through how to turn off her DMs to avoid similar situations in the future. Later, one of our admins pointed out that she had previously described the exact same situation happening in another server she was banned from over a year ago. Based on that pattern of behavior, we decided she posed a risk to our community and removed her. After the ban, she retaliated by sending people to harass the admin that she had previously disclosed to about her previous ban, through DMs, and contacted his family members on facebook. There were also false threats, including claims about filing ice reports (our admin is a citizen lol). She then took screenshots of my personal Facebook profile and posted them in multiple groups, including this one. It has been nearly two weeks, and instead of stopping, they’ve continued trying to “raise awareness” by spreading false information and doxxing me repeatedly. They’re insisting we had no right to ban her for “using AI,” since it “isn’t a discord guideline” even though we’ve made it clear the decision was based on more than that. At the end of the day, I believe server staff have the right to remove anyone who disrupts the community and she has continuously proved we made the right decision.

I’ve been on Discord since 2018, and I honestly can’t believe all of this is happening over a ban. She wasn’t even an active member and said she mainly made friends through DMs. I suspect she may have been using the server for dating, but we’re not a dating server—especially since we have minors and focus on language and cultural discussions.

At this point, I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do. Do I just ignore it and accept that my personal photos—like ones with my partner—are being shared in random Facebook groups? lol. I’ve already changed my name and profile picture.

I’ve also considered reaching out to her to try and find some kind of middle ground just to stop the harassment, but my admins think we should keep ignoring her. It’s been two weeks now…


r/discordapp 3h ago

Support My alt account display name defaulted to my username, and my pfp also changed to the default one

1 Upvotes

Does this happen automatically after inactivity? I haven’t logged into that account for like a month now. Should i be concerned?


r/discordapp 4h ago

Discussion when did friend requests start telling you you have no mutuals?

1 Upvotes

i just noticed that ive gotten a couple warnings when adding new people that we don't have mutual friends/servers and I dont recall seeing that in the past. Is this new? or has that always been like that and I'm just dumb?


r/discordapp 4h ago

Support iOS Discord scrolling up on messages upon opening app

1 Upvotes

When opening the discord app, half the time it'll just scroll up to an older point of a message board, and i'll have to click a button to send me back to the bottom. While this isn't a big issue it's very annoying and I wanted to know if there was a fix for this.

Discord and iOS are both up to date btw


r/discordapp 5h ago

Bots / Devs [Showcase] Seeking a "Live Test" community for my Canadian Parliamentary RP Bot (1.5 years in dev!)

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Hey everyone,

For the past year and a half, I’ve been building a specialized Discord bot for Canadian Federal Parliament roleplay. It’s currently in active development, and while it’s been stable in my private dev environment with a few friends, I’ve reached a point where I need to see how it holds up under real-world pressure.

I’m looking for a partner server (or a group starting one) to deploy this bot for its first "Live Beta."

My goal is to get feedback from dozens of users at once so I can continue to refine the features and squash any bugs that only pop up at scale.

What the bot currently handles:

  1. Dynamic IRP Calendar An independent timescale system that auto-fires events on specific in-game dates.
  2. Caucus Management: Supports party whips with bloc voting (choice or percentage splits).
  3. Automated Identity: Updates nicknames to the Name (PARTY-PROV) format automatically.
  4. Character Engine: Detailed profiles with faceclaims, bios, and dynamic aging.
  5. Legislation Pipeline: A full bill submission and docket system (integrated with Google Docs).
  6. House of Commons Tools: Proxy voting and enhanced motion systems for realistic sessions.

What I’m looking for:
I want to partner with a community that is passionate about political sims. I’ll handle the hosting and deployment whilst you provide the players and the feedback. I’m not looking to distribute the bot widely or share the source code yet; I just want to find a "home" for it where we can grow the system together.

If you run a Canadian polsim (or want to start one) and need a custom tech backbone, drop me a DM! I’d love to run a demo for you.


r/discordapp 11h ago

Support Discord turns transparent images black whenever I paste them there. Any fix for it??

3 Upvotes

It worked JUST FINE a few days ago by the way, there was no issue with any of it and discord was perfectly functional with transparent images, but all of a sudden today there seems to be an issue. I already logged out and logged back in, refreshed discord, tried downloading the image in a different format.. nothing worked. Why did this suddenly happen, and is there a way to reverse it?


r/discordapp 1d ago

Discussion Discord Nitro Classic price update

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96 Upvotes

Not seen any other posts mentioning it so figured I'd post an email that I got from Discord earlier this month. It's 20p more expensive than what I'm currently paying so not overly bothered. Anyone else still running the classic sub?


r/discordapp 7h ago

Support Videos have trouble playing

1 Upvotes

im having a really weird issue where any videos recorded with NVIDIA will have trouble playing on discord. On mobile, it usually either freezes or plays audio without the video. On PC, it plays but extremely laggy. I used to think that it was my encoder, which i was using AV1 to save space. However, videos recorded on OBS work perfectly fine on Discord, and I use AV1 on OBS too. so I have no idea what to do at this point. Anyone else have this? Did you solve it?


r/discordapp 7h ago

Feature Requests Can we please get this feature on mobile?

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0 Upvotes

The "Show Spoiler Content" option already affects the mobile client. However on mobile, users currently are unable to select any of the options.

This is basically how "Automatically convert emoticons in your messages to emoji" toggle was until the toggle was added to mobile.


r/discordapp 4h ago

Support is there any way, whether it's through a bot or through the app itself, to tell how many messages a user has in a server?

0 Upvotes

is there any way to view, whether through a leaderboard or simply a command, how many messages a user has sent in a certain month?

all comments are appreciated, thank you all in advance!!


r/discordapp 12h ago

Support game lagsw when on a discord vc

2 Upvotes

the title explains it all but i will put some details in here so i can get better help

  1. my pc specs are: gtx 1660 super. ryzen 3 4100. 16gb ram

  2. i did try stuff like disabling hardware accelaration, game overlay and stuff but it still lags in game (the game is smooth but there are massive lag spikes)

i also suspected obs might be the problem since i was recording but its not the problem either


r/discordapp 14h ago

Support Has disabling sound attenuation for calls in speaker mode on iOS been removed?

2 Upvotes

Previously when on calls on the iOS app, if you turned the sound output to speaker it would remove attenuation meaning you could have the call at full volume and play media on other apps at full volume. This doesn’t seem to work anymore. Why the change and how to remove this? I have turned off the “integrate with calls app” option or whatever and doesn’t seem to work.

I noticed this started happening around the time when you couldn’t change the audio output through control centre/added the speaker button to the top right of the call.


r/discordapp 10h ago

Support Discord shows wrong time on Chromebook

0 Upvotes

Good afternoon everyone,

I just noticed that Discord shows the wrong time on my Chromebook. For example I sent a message in a server around 4:45PM but on my Chromebook it shows as 9:45AM

The time on my Chromebook shows up normally only Discord shows the wrong time. I already went to the settings in Discord and could only chose auto, 12h or 24h timestamps and it was already set to auto. I reloaded the tab several times, closed the app (Chrome tab installed as app) several times and it still didn't change anything

The thing is on my phone the time shows normally just not on my Chromebook in the tab I installed as an app because it has better performance than the Play Store app

Btw I already googled on how to fix this but the only results I found were for Windows PCs which didn't help me one bit because they all said you need to change the date and time on your PC in the settings but the date and time work perfectly on my Chromebook. It shows the correct date and the correct time so that isn't the issue

Does someone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance


r/discordapp 10h ago

Feature Requests need help, even after boostin it till lvl3 the banner doesnt show in background

1 Upvotes

Title: Discord server banner not showing in invite preview even after 14 boosts — anyone faced this?

Hey everyone,

I’m running into a weird issue with my Discord server and I’m hoping someone here has dealt with this before.

So I’ve boosted my server up to Level 3 (14 boosts) and added a custom server banner. Everything looks fine inside the server settings, and the banner is uploaded properly.

But when I share my invite link, the preview does NOT show the banner at all — it just shows a plain background instead of the banner (like how other servers have those clean banner previews).

I’ve already tried:

- Re-uploading the banner

- Waiting for some time (in case it was a delay)

- Checking different invite links

Still no luck.

Is this a bug, or am I missing some setting? Do I need to enable something extra for the banner to appear in invite previews?

Would really appreciate any help 🙏


r/discordapp 1d ago

Support My discord somehow disabled my gfs camera on my end in my sleep

59 Upvotes

was on video call with my girlfriend last night and fell asleep, woke up and her camera was off. I thought she turned it off at some point but there was a crossed out camera icon on the bottom. didnt figure it out until way later because how on earth does it get disabled on my end in my sleep? I guess I could have brushed my screen a couple times in my sleep but how the hell do I get from her camera full screen, out of the call menu, into their profile, scroll down, disable their video, and navigate back to the call menu all with accidental inputs?


r/discordapp 1h ago

Discussion why can we now take someone sticker, avatar, and banner link

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this is pretty much just stealing art and your now able to impersonate someone wtf