--- 2015 ---
 
	2015-MAY-13 - Discord is officially opened to the public as a Final-Fantasy-XIV-centric chat client, though lacks complete feature parity with other competitors for a few months (screen sharing and video chat, for one).  Large portions of people move over from other platforms due to their failures:
	- Skype, which had been mostly or completely non-functional for years
	- Xfire, which would disable their chat functionality in June of 2015, and shut down entirely in April of 2016
	- Steam, which, although very functional, lacked any features beyond very basic text chat and voice calls, and was also not designed specifically as a chat client
	- Teamspeak / Ventrilo, which both cost money and are lacking in chat support
	- Snapchat, due to the gimmicky nature of it, and use mostly by schoolchildren and hormonal teenagers (at the time)
	- Kik / Telegram, due to lack of features other than texting
	- Facebook Messenger / WhatsApp, due to association with Facebook and the lack of features as mentioned above
	- and various less popular IRC programs.
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord
 
 --- 2016 ---

	2016-JAN-27 - Discord receives $20m from Time Warner (Warner Media) prior to it being split and purchased by various companies including Charter (now Spectrum) and AT&T
		https://web.archive.org/web/20160531142307/http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/01/the-latest-app-for-third-party-voice-chat-just-raised-almost-us20-million/
 
 --- 2017 ---
 
	2017-JAN-22 - Discord introduces Nitro, the paid subscription service, as a way to "support the company" or somesuch.  Includes a higher upload limit for files and animated emojis.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20210204233744/https://blog.discord.com/boost-your-account-and-support-us-with-discord-nitro-4f894cfb80d9?gi=d87ea15be9e4
		https://web.archive.org/web/20191124094657/https://medium.com/chews-blog/its-official-discord-nitro-is-now-a-premium-subscription-1ba8c5534216

 --- 2018 ---
 
	2018-AUG-09 - Discord renames Nitro to "Nitro Classic" and gimps the features, while adding a second tier now just called "Nitro."
		https://web.archive.org/web/20210204233743/https://blog.discord.com/21-12-2017-change-log-76e8c0331266?gi=e76d53078629
	2018-OCT-10 - Discord raises the price of Nitro from 6 to 10 dollars
		https://medium.com/discord-engineering/discord-nitro-is-evolving-4c0475d18e1
	2018-OCT-16 - Discord updates their TOS to introduce an arbitration clause.  A bunch of redditors try to remind people to opt out but this largely does nothing and doesn't apply to most people anyway.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240608000441/https://discord.com/safety/terms-of-service-feedback-and-changes
	2018-DEC-21 - Discord surpasses $2b valuation after receiving a $150m round of funding from companies including Tencent, IVP, Index Venrtures, and others.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20181222000005/https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discord-raises-150m-surpassing-2b-valuation/

--- 2019 ---

	2019-MAY-22 - Discord introduces "server boosting," requiring insane amounts of money nearing and above $1k USD monthly to "unlock features," which were mostly inconsequential or useless, like more emoji slots, a custom URL, and a custom server banner image.  The boost requirement for the top "tier" of "rewards" was later reduced from 30 to 10, due to community complaints.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20190626222942/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/brunnt/server_boosting/

--- 2020 ---

	2020-OCT-16 - Discord introduces stickers, initially a paid feature, for between 0.50-3$ USD each, introduced as an experiment on Canadian users.  It saw extremely low interest and use, leading stickers to eventually become a free feature entirely, though they still are largely neglected, as effectively nobody actually wants to use stickers instead of emoji or just uploading a photo.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20201031042641/https://www.engadget.com/discord-stickers-135019389.html
	2020-JUN-XX - Discord reaches 100 million active users (largely due to Covid-19)
		https://web.archive.org/web/20210204233735/https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308194/discord-gaming-users-safety-center-video-voice-chat

--- 2021 ---

	2021-JAN-27 - Discord bans the /r/wallstreetbets server during the GameStop short squeeze, only to shortly after allow it to be re-created, but only with official moderation in place.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20210130203945/https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253251/discord-bans-the-r-wallstreetbets-server
	2021-MAY-13 - Discord rebrands from a "gamer" chat application to a more general one, with the "imagine a place" slogan.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20210715145845/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/ojkcue/imagine_a_place_where_the_rebrand_never_happened/
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240615073817/https://discord.com/blog/happy-blurpthday-to-discord-a-place-for-everything-you-can-imagine
	2021-JUN-02 - Discord introduces server-specific nicknames and profiles, but paywalls them behind Nitro
		https://web.archive.org/web/20221220060305/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/nqgt47/finally_but_why_nitro_locked/
	2021-JUN-26 - Discord blocks NSFW channels entirely for iOS users, supposedly to comply with App Store rules, as was the excuse with Tumblr's earlier nuking of all NSFW content in 2018.  This was later softened to a default block, allowing users to turn off the blockage in settings if they were over 13.  This was later changed to only blocking "servers focused on explicit pornographic content" from being used by Apple customers.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240609235542/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/o8drhm/yeah_im_done_with_apple/?rdt=40748
	2021-AUG-24 - Music bot "Groovy" goes offline in response to a C&D from Google
		https://web.archive.org/web/20230806115018/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/pau2l3/groovy_a_popular_music_bot_announces_them_ending/?rdt=60747
	2021-NOV-11 - Discord considers and then drops a WEB3 / Cryptocurrency integration scheme
		https://web.archive.org/web/20211202144819/https://www.ign.com/articles/discord-crypto-nft-integration-ceo-backs-away.
	2021-DEC-07 - Discord introduces their own version of Patreon, on-platform, called "premium memberships," later "server subscriptions"
		https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/discord-premium-memberships/
		https://web.archive.org/web/20230308152206/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415163187607-Server-Subscriptions-for-Members

--- 2022 ---

	2022-MAY-13 - Discord's feedback forum falls out of use and devolves into a mess of AI spambots and angry users screaming into the void, only to be ignored even by the forum's moderators (which seemingly have forgotten about it by this point)
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240720163220/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/6077434960407--IMPORTANT-PLEASE-READ-The-state-of-this-feedback-forums-and-Discord-s-support-website-in-general
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZGf7UgGFgY
	2022-JUN-04 - Discord introduces the "text chat for voice chat" feature, which is a pointlessly confusing: an intentionally hidden text channel associated with every voice channel, which was supposed to solve a problem that it itself had caused.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240829125004/https://discord.com/blog/text-in-voice-chat-channel-announcement-tiv
	2022-JUL-03 - Discord intentionally disables saving or copying of image thumbnails / previews, rather than linking to or copying the original for some unknowable reason.  This later results in the intermittent inability to download images from their servers at all due to technical issues.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20220703044917/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/vq9onc/unable_to_save_image_preview/
	2022-OCT-17 - Discord converts "Nitro Classic" to "Nitro Basic," with further trimmed down features, and a reduced price tag ($3 instead of $6 monthly).
		https://web.archive.org/web/20221020012304/https://discord.com/blog/introducing-discord-nitro-basic
	2022-NOV-01 - Discord introduces "Activities," including an official "watch together" YouTube app, with ads, when the main client does not have ads, which most people ignore entirely.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20221103172234/https://discord.com/blog/discord-update-november-1-2022-changelog

--- 2023 ---

	2023-MAR-03 - Discord enforces a new policy that prohibits on-platform discussion or sale of "dangerous and regulated goods" including firearms, drugs, etc.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240521044555/https://discord.com/safety/clarifying-our-dangerous-and-regulated-goods-policy
	2023-MAR-05 - Discord changes its TOS to allow recording of voice and video calls, supposedly for the clips feature.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20230305074946/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/11ihqq6/discord_will_possibly_record_your_video_calls/
	2023-MAR-09 - Discord introduces an AI chatbot that doesn't do very much and most people dislike
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240605011312/https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/9/23631930/discord-openai-clyde-chatbot-automod-features-ai
	2023-MAR-13 - Discord faces backlash for the TOS changes that followed their AI and clips features
		https://web.archive.org/web/20230311162540/https://www.techradar.com/opinion/discords-ai-features-violate-our-privacy-and-its-time-we-pushed-back
	2023-MAR-20 - Discord introduces a "swipe to reply" feature on mobile, which overrides the previous action for swiping left or right, which was opening the sidebars.  A bunch of people complain, but the change is not reverted, nor is there a toggle given to revert the change client-side.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240829085205/https://discord.com/blog/discord-update-march-20-2023-changelog
	2023-MAR-27 - Discord rolls back TOS changes due to continued backlash, but only most of the way
		https://web.archive.org/web/20230820102219/https://www.techradar.com/opinion/discords-ai-features-violate-our-privacy-and-its-time-we-pushed-back
	2023-APR-10 - Discord introduces another annoying feature called "soundboards," which is exclusively used to annoy people in voice chats.  Thankfully they can be muted and ignored entirely.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240822125527/https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/10/troll-your-friends-with-discords-latest-feature/
	2023-APR-13 - Discord increases the upload limit for all non-nitro users to 25MB (up from 8)
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240824135927/https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/13/no-more-file-size-restrictions-discords-new-upload-limit/
	2023-APR-20 - Discord introduces "super reactions," which are exclusively used by annoying children to be annoying, but are also limited to nitro users, and additionally limited with a certain amount per week, seemingly because they knew that having flashing, animated garbage that you can't turn off would be obnoxious.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240705185441/https://discord.com/blog/discord-update-april-14-2023-changelog
	2023-MAY-03 - Discord changes the username system to a much worse one and pisses off a bunch of their users.  Old users were additionally supposed to get first dibs on discriminator-less usernames, but this was not the case for a majority of people.  This change resulted in widespread harassment and targeted phishing and attempted hijacking of user accounts for perceived "high value" usernames, such as 3-4 character usernames, or dictionary words, like "Sailboat."  This was covered by Linus of Linus Tech Tips at some point, which spurred them to remove the @ symbol from the front of usernames, as was originally their intent, though they did not ever roll back or halt the change overall from going through.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20230601123608/https://discord.com/blog/usernames
	2023-MAY-13 - Discord experiments with AI to determine the gender of its users, presumably for advertising purposes.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240515041421/https://www.dexerto.com/tech/discord-is-allegedly-assigning-gender-to-users-with-machine-learning-ai-2721391/
	2023-JUN-10 - Discord's Glassdoor reviews go down the shitter following a corporate restructuring and replacement of their "old guard" with out of touch ex-Twitter/Microsoft/Facebook execs
		https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1468sp2/with_discord_rapidly_burning_down_glassdoor/
		https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/145w6ir/comment/jnnal39/
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKcf5XboJA
	2023-JUN-20 - Discord introduces and almost immediately removes and memory-holes a feature called "emoji packs," which would allow users to have custom global emoji without being in a server, as used to be the case in 2017-18 with Twitch and GameWisp packs (though this was killed silently as well).  Non-nitro users would be given one pack for free.  The rollout resulted in mass cancellations of nitro subscriptions from users who received the experiment.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20231122232228/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/14eosq7/remember_emoji_packs_theyve_been_updated/?rdt=36772
		https://web.archive.org/web/20231122232331/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/170eyoa/emoji_packs_implementation_and_how_its_not_as/?rdt=51900
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240108064205/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/18fhmhq/discord_is_removing_emoji_packs/?rdt=55289
	2023-AUG-03 - Discord lays off 4% of its employees
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240519083403/https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/03/discord-cuts-4-staff-as-part-of-company-reorganization/
	2023-AUG-25 - Discord is confirmed to be banning users who even joke about being under 13 and requires a lengthy government ID verification process for them to get access to their account back
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJjIUUnX1rI
	2023-SEP-20 - Discord introduces a feature for server moderators which automatically notifies them of ""suspicious activity"" in DMS, and allows the human moderator to manually disable sending of DMs between users in the server.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20231206215510/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/17439993574167-Activity-Alerts-Security-Actions
	2023-OCT-19 - Discord introduces a warning / "Account standing" system, meant to shape user behavior and provide more transparent warnings, rather than immediate, permanent bans.  This system is not used seemingly at all, and users are banned permanently and without warning anyway.  Many users are marked as 'spam' without being told as well, making the entire system completely pointless and redundant.
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2SWTWd8xTk
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240719035509/https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23923646/discord-warning-system-moderation-teen-safety-new-mobile-features
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240326202756/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/18210965981847-Discord-Warning-System
		Messages hidden as spam from legitimate user, user not informed.png
	2023-OCT-19 - Discord sunsets the partner program, supposedly "temporarily," to perform "maintenance."  This is still disabled as of over a year later.
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sskfgHnKiO0
	2023-OCT-24 - Discord implements automatic DM text scanning to "protect children online"
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240108164800/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000068672-Safer-Messaging-on-Discord
	2023-OCT-25 - Discord intentionally breaks the inspect element window by crashing the client and invalidating all local discord sessions when it is detected as open.  Developers smarmily claimed on Reddit that this is "not a supported feature" and that they "prevent access to the console on the stable client."  This was retroactively claimed to have been done in the name of "protecting users from scams," (logouts were supposedly done to protect the session token from being stolen) but this was reverted after enough people complained, and the claim was shifted a third time to this being ""just a bug.""  Accessing the console now requires a multi-step process to access involving editing the program's config and putting secret codes (which can only be found with sufficient googling or datamining) in very specifically named JSON files.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20231103143704/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/17g642q/opening_inspect_element_automatically_restarts/?rdt=64357
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240520033623/https://piunikaweb.com/2023/10/26/discord-logs-out-when-using-inspect-element-function-on-browser/
		Developer comment on console crash.png
		Further complaints.png
	2023-NOV-06 - Discord adds 24 hour time limits to file and image links posted off-platform to prevent their servers being used as a file host
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240704131427/https://www.pcmag.com/news/discord-decides-file-links-will-only-work-for-24-hours
	2023-NOV-17 - Discord kills off their AI chatbot
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240605013710/https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965185/discord-is-shutting-down-its-ai-chatbot-clyde
	2023-DEC-05 - Discord forces a new mobile UI on everyone, that is horribly slow, unstable, and moves things around for seemingly no reason, in completely nonsensical ways (pinned messages are in the right sidebar, under a new settings button???).  This results in mass review bombing on the App store and Play store, as there is no way to change back or decline the update, and their support team by this point has become notorious for being unhelpful and ignoring their users.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240201143037/https://discord.com/blog/improving-our-mobile-experience
	2023-DEC-05 - Discord changes the icon pack for desktop clients to coincide with the mobile update, with no way to revert.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20231206180905/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/18bw8tl/new_icon_changes/?rdt=58404
	2023-DEC-15 - Discord admits they are using AI to inspect and scan all images uploaded to discord, supposedly to "fight child exploitation"
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240202133419/https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-leverages-machine-learning-to-fight-csam

--- 2024 ---

	2024-JAN-11 - Discord lays off 17% of its employees
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240718181545/https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees
	2024-JAN-12 - Discord experiments with geo-blocking and other features to comply with global government requests; in this instance, specifically Russia.
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzS2BEomhg
	2024-JAN-31 - Discord's CEO, Jason Citron, fulfills a subpoena sent to him by the US congress for a "child internet safety" hearing, in which he says a bunch of nothing and the gov't complains that they don't have a direct unmoderated backdoor into discord for snooping whenever they want to ""protect the kids."
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250306112118/https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24056136/congress-child-safety-hearing-kosa-meta-x-discord-snap-tiktok
	2024-JUN-06 - Discord changes the rules surrounding app and bot monetization, forcing monetized bots into an on-platform store (from which Discord takes a cut of the revenue), resulting in increased prices for users across the board, and lowered sales for bot developers
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240705185159/https://discord.com/blog/feast-your-moniteyes-on-todays-exciting-developer-updates
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240830044520/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1d9kxtx/discords_new_forced_monetization_for_app/?rdt=63517
		Discord changes monetization rules.png
	2024-JUN-27 - Discord starts showing non-nitro users a fake notification badge in their DMs when they have not yet viewed the store on startup.
		Fake notification for item shop.png
	2024-APR-01 - Discord implements "Quests:" advertisements shown to everyone that allow users who interact with them to gain items in certain games, though manifestly just act as big flashy ads for whatever game the person is playing, which cannot be disabled visually.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250214034513/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/
	2024-APR-09 - Discord takes down and memory holes a tiktok they released that claims "DISCORD IS NOT AN AD PLATFORM."
		https://youtu.be/f1f7pcKDCMI
	2024-APR-15 - Discord updates their TOS again to introduce a different arbitration clause from the one in 2018, that users are forced to opt out of again, even if they already opted out the first time they tried this.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240416193422/https://twitter.com/AradorTD/status/1780261090712023148
	2024-JUL-20 - Discord now shows pop-up ads (claimed to be "a notice" by their support staff, which is the dictionary definition of an advertisement) to both Nitro and free users for their item shop, on both desktop and mobile.  Additional pop-ups occur when hovering over the item shop on the desktop, with animated images playing on hover.  These show to both free and paid users.
		support staff calls ads notices.png (July 2024)
		Pop-up ads in android.png (July 2024)
		Pop up item store ticker.png (July 2024)
		animation.jpg (October 2024)
		popup ad.jpg (October 2024)
		bottom right corner advertisement.png (October 2024)
		glowing store icon for nitro user.png (October 2024)
		glowing store icon again.png (November 2024)
		more fullscreen ads.jpg (December 2024)
		another animation on the nitro gift button.jpg (December 2024)
		bottom right corner ad again.png (December 2024)
		pop-up ad for avatar frames (December 2024)
	2024-AUG-20 - Discord takes a sponsorship from Amazon and integrates advertisements / ""benefits"" for Amazon Music subscribers into the activity menu.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240824025417/https://discord.com/blog/amazon-music-activity
	2024-AUG-12 - Discord introduces an "Ads Policy," after years of specifically stating Discord is "not an ad platform" and then memory holing every instance of them stating or indicating this.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240818123734/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/25516720403223-Ads-Policy
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngLz1a3KvPk
	2024-AUG-29 - The apps icon was moved on the desktop version to where the emoji icon used to be, taking cues from tactics used to intentionally confuse users, with the likes of moving notifications and windows when a user attempts to close them to get them to click something like an ad, or "X" icons that simply do nothing and lead the user away to a new page anyway, as seen in common scam advertisements and modern web spam.
		Apps icon moved.png
	2024-AUG-30 - Discord introduces a "recent activity" panel on top of the user list, showing what games people have been playing historically.  This panel appears on all servers of any size that you happen to be in.  Sharing of this in all servers is turned on automatically, leading many people do perceive it as a breach of privacy.  The panel can be "hidden" but never removed from the sidebar, further cluttering the interface.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240830131404/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/7931156448919-Activity-Status-Recent-Activity
	2024-SEP-04 - Discord lowers the file upload limit for free users from 25MB back down to 10MB.  It was originally raised in April of 2023.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240905123949/https://www.dexerto.com/tech/discord-lowers-free-upload-limit-to-10mb-storage-management-is-expensive-2887809/
	2024-SEP-16 - The moderators for Discord's subreddit censor even popular posts (>100 upvotes and multiple comments) complaining about changes under the guise of "reposting existing topics."
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240917011656/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1fiism1/i_hate_the_new_file_upload_limit/?rdt=44211
		reddit mods censoring complaints.png
	2024-SEP-16 - Discord continues to permanently ban users out of nowhere, for unexplained reasons - and they're now unbanning people at random all the same.  Support "shadowbans" / ignores users for asking about their bans, and they receive no further responses.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20240916211847/https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1fifr0y/how_did_my_account_get_unbanned/?rdt=34886
	2024-SEP-19 - Discord now shows the "applications" menu on all images when hovering over them, in addition to the button that was added next to the emoji icon on August 30th.
		application icon appears on images.png
	2024-OCT-16 - Discord's lawyer gets into a public legal battle with Nexon, the Korean publisher of games like Maplestory, over a DMCA claim about copyrighted material on the platform.  Requests are complied with, but the lawyer makes a stink about it and cites bad-faith first amendment arguments as to why they shouldn't have to comply, which makes no sense and seems like a PR stunt.  Actual lawsuit will likely take 3-4 years to process.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250305234428/https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24271854/discord-nexon-dmca-subpoena-copyright-piracy
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250217203400/https://torrentfreak.com/discord-disputes-dmca-subpoena-demands-rejects-anti-piracy-partner-role-241015/
		gov.uscourts.txnd.395421.2.0.pdf
	2024-OCT-22 - Discord pushes nitro gifting to paid users with a one-time pop-up ad and flashy animation that plays every time the app starts, advertising a halloween profile decoration.
		2024 animation.jpg
		2024 popup ad.jpg
	2024-OCT-25 - Discord pilots a pop-up notification in the bottom-right corner about halloween notification sounds.  Definitely won't ever be used for advertising.
		2025-OCT-25 bottom right corner advertisement.png
	2024-NOV-21 - Discord implements "HD splash potions" which enable HD streaming for non-nitro users.  Nitro users receive one for free.  Further uses cost 99 cents each.  Non-nitro users are limited to low-bitrate 720p streaming.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250228145700/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/27343254089623-HD-Splash-Potion-FAQ

--- 2025 ---

	2025-JAN-30 - Discord removed the ability from mobile apps to swipe between images when multiple are uploaded to the same post, seemingly for no reason.
	2025-FEB-10 - Pop-up ads continue
		another popup ad.jpg
	2025-FEB-15 - Discord kills support for windows 7 / 8 with a mandatory update to Electron, which crashes the client on startup.  Old versions of the client are unavailable for download and auto-update cannot be disabled.
	2025-FEB-27 - Discord implements generative AI toys / "apps" that can be used on any server, without moderation, for free, and cannot be disabled or blocked.
		https://youtu.be/ISkPiuRwnNU
	2025-MAR-22 - Discord states their intent to add video ads (initiated by screen-obscuring popup ads) for mobile devices, again disguised as part of their "quests" "feature."  You can opt-out of "personalized quests" but you cannot disable them entirely, and they still show for nitro (paid) users.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250320162616/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/
	2025-APR-17 - The State of New Jersey files a lawsuit against Discord for "leaving children vulnerable to harassment," arguing that they need to verify all users' identities via ID and that due to the ease of making new accounts, discord should also cost money to use.
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250427191434/https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases25/2025-0417_Discord_Complaint.pdf
	2025-APR-29 - Discord toys with different methods for UK government compliance for "child safety" requests, implementing a horribly inaccurate AI face scanning service (or a gov't ID verification service) as a requirement to view channels marked as NSFW, or content their automated systems detect as NSFW.
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksAeOiIydJA
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250427152631/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer
	2025-MAY-30 - Discord modifies their 'quests' feature to implement an on-platform currency for profile decorations, rather than giving users profile decorations directly for engaging with advertisements
		https://web.archive.org/web/20250530014006/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/discord-lures-users-to-click-on-ads-by-offering-them-new-orbs-currency/