While adults working from home flocked to Zoom, their children were downloading Discord to socialise with other young people through text and audio and video calls in groups known as servers
Stanislav Vishnevskiy, left, and Jason Citron, co-founders of Discord, at the social hub’s offices in San Francisco, Dec. 20, 2021. Six years after Citron stripped his unsuccessful online game down to just its chat feature and named it Discord, it has exploded in popularity with young people who socialize on it through text and audio and video calls in groups known as servers.
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