Discord is working on an onboarding addition which allows you to select connections that new members joining your server will be suggested (but not forced) to connect to their accounts.

Discord has contributed assets for emoji in Unicode 17.0 to the Twemoji repository. You can expect the following emojis to be supported on Discord in the future.
Additionally, emojis like👯 will support displaying multiple skin color variations at once as per the new standard.

Additionally, they're running initial tests for a local voice recognition system that is designed to let you create a clip with a voice-activated command, current test phrases include: alexa, klip that, clip, burr burr pattapim

Discord is also experimenting with in-game events, similar to a feature Steam pioneered earlier this year. The first supported game appears to be League of Legends, which will track multikills, turret destructions, and steals of epic monsters such as Dragons and Baron Nashor.

Discord is working on a bunch of smaller improvements to the clipping experience. This includes a better clip library, overhauled editing interfaces and in-chat reminders to send recently captured clips.

Discord is working on bringing the ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) feature, which is currently already available to a select group of iOS users, to its desktop client.
This tab on your home screen will display messages, announcements, summaries, scheduled server events, and more.

Discord is removing the slowmode bypass from the Manage Messages permission and making it its own standalone permission.
This change is scheduled to take effect on January 12, 2026, but the new permission will be available well in advance to this, giving servers time to migrate.

Discord is working on a new system for their Social SDK that lets connected games display in-game information within custom widgets on your Discord profile.

The component is designed to be wrapped in a label component. Hence, in the original picture we posted, the upload UI looks a bit off. Here is what it's actually supposed to look like:

Based on the information currently available, it appears that the component will only be usable within modals.

Discord is working on a new message component for bots. With this component, developers can set the minimum and maximum number of files users can upload. The upload limit is based on the user's upload quota, which can be increased by purchasing Nitro or by boosting the server.

Note that all games and required server boost costs are likely placeholders and might still change before the official release of this feature. Additionally, most of the text in this UI is obfuscated. We've replaced it with our best guesses based on the observed UI functionality.

As we've previously reported, Discord is working on adding server hosting for various games as a boosting perk.
You will be able to select from different plans with various RAM, CPU, and storage configurations, each of which will cost a different number of server boosts.

Discord and Shockbyte may be collaborating to bring a new feature to server boosting.
A new "GAME_SERVER_HOSTING" server feature suggests Discord is working on letting server owners rent a game server through server boosts.

Discord is partnerting with Epic Games and Nvidia to offer users the ability to play Fortnite directly within Discord voice channels via GeForce Now. This new voice channel activity will allow users to try the game for up to 30 minutes (limited per account).

Discord is adding two new packs of Server Tag Icons that can be unlocked by buying them with additional boosts!
The Pets icon pack (Bnuuy, Dog, Frog, Goat, and Frog) will cost 3 Boosts to unlock, while the Flex icon pack (Diamond, Crown, Trophy, Pouch, and Cash) will cost 6 Boosts!

Discord has partnered with DaFuq!?Boom! to release the Skibidi Toilet avatar and profile decorations.

May 8th restriction has been lifted, the feature is now out to all servers regardless of creation date.

Server Tags and Gradient Roles are now out TO ALL SERVERS created BEFORE MAY 8TH at 9PM CEST (3PM ET for Americans)

Server Tags and Gradient Roles rollout was just increased to 50%.

The regional price change is just an assumption, but we definitely know its just Google Play because the code specifically refers to it as a Google Play price change

Discord has implemented a new notification system for Android users regarding changes to Nitro subscription pricing.
This may affect customers who currently benefit from regional pricing, and seems to only target users who pay for their Nitro subscription through Google Play.

Server Tags and Gradient Roles rollout was just increased to 30%.

Rollout was just now increased to 20%.

Discord Orbs, Discord's virtual currency, have begun rolling out and are currently available to 0.5% of users.
More information on Discord Orbs here: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art...

Rolled out to 15% of servers now.

Rolled out to 12.5% of servers now.

Eventually all servers will have access to it

10% now