Discord's latest efforts to improve the user experience, particularly on Linux, are certainly noteworthy, but its age-verification plans remain a concern.

Discord has announced some big improvements available now in its Linux client. Phoronix notes that they include official support for more distros, support for hardware-accelerated video encoding, ...

Discord's multi-year encryption project is done. Every call is now E2EE by default across consoles, mobile, and browsers.