If you were in a public Discord any time over the past decade, you weren’t just chatting with your friends—you were participating in a massive sociological experiment. According to 404 Media, a team ...

It’s easy to get the impression that Discord chat messages are ephemeral, especially across different public servers, where lines fly upward at a near-unreadable pace. But someone claims to be ...

Discord banned accounts tied to Spy.Pet, a website known for mining and selling millions of users' messages. Spy.Pet used bots to scrape data from 14,000 servers, affecting nearly 620 million Discord ...

Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down. 404 Media, which ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Discord, the hugely popular messaging platform with more than ...

In this age of utterly ubiquitous connectivity, it's easy to forget that enabling it all is actually, you know, hard. Enter Discord, the voice, video and text chat app, and its tale of toil when it ...