Discord is a social network launched in May 2015. With over 250 million users, it's among the fastest growing social networks in the world, tripling its user count in one year in 2018[1].
Discord allows users to create customized "servers" to use for instant messaging and VoIP communication, in a similar way to Skype, Slack and TeamSpeak. These servers can be fully customized and sorted into categories, allowing them to be used for a wide variety of topics. Users can also be given different permissions, allowing for staff hierarchy. With Nitro Boosting, more features for favored servers among users can allow for even more features, such as GIF Server Icons.
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The nature of Discord allowed it to quickly grow a staple Smasher userbase, with players creating servers dedicated to numerous parts of the game. Many of these are dedicated to singular characters, regions and tournament circuits. This allows for more focused discussion than on places such as SmashBoards.
One platform that gave a significant rise to this is SmashCords, a website compiling relevant Smash-themed Discord servers. It also has a dedicated bot to further aid Smash-related communication known as "Floof Bot", which has since become a standard addition in many Smash-centric Discord servers. Most "SmashCords" have very large amounts of members, with the Joker Discord server having over 14,000 members as of June 2020.