{"id":108353,"date":"2020-01-30T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357433"},"modified":"2020-01-30T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:00:00","slug":"discord-no-longer-doubles-as-a-game-launcher-as-two-non-core-features-get-the-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/discord-no-longer-doubles-as-a-game-launcher-as-two-non-core-features-get-the-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord no longer doubles as a game launcher as two non-core features get the axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving forward, Discord will no longer double as a game launcher via the Library or offer snippets of video game news through the Activity Feed, a decision made after feedback showed neither feature was quite pulling its weight.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.discordapp.com\/were-constantly-listening-to-your-feedback-and-working-to-improve-how-discord-feels-and-functions-676a5cb3ab63\">decision to cut both features<\/a> comes from Discord\u2019s desire to zero in on its core purpose and focus on offering utilities that \u201cdon\u2019t make [Discord] bulky and take away from the core chat experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the features from the now-axed Activity Feed have been replaced by the Channel Following feature that lets developers and publishers push announcements from their Verified or Partnered server to a dedicated, customizable feed.<\/p>\n<p>The other cut, Discord\u2019s Library section, represents the platform\u2019s recent pivot away from its brief time as a digital game platform. It follows months after the company <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350729\/Discord_cuts_games_from_paid_subscription_plan_after_Nitro_Games_fails_to_take_off.php\">removed free games<\/a> from its Discord Nitro game subscription program after the realization that no one was really playing those games anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving forward, Discord will no longer double as a game launcher via the Library or offer snippets of video game news through the Activity Feed, a decision made after feedback showed neither feature was quite pulling its weight. Part of the decision to cut both features comes from Discord\u2019s desire to zero in on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}