Discord has introduced "threads."
Discord has introduced "threads."
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Discord improves conversations by finally adding threads

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Discord conversations can often get into the hundreds of messages, and to simplify that chatter, the company is launching “threads.”

And as simple as that sounds, it took more than a year for the company to bone up on the subject, consult with the most active of its 150 million monthly active users, and craft the solution. This is according to Cherry Park, the director of product marketing at Discord, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.