Discord is adding new tools and features to its Family Center.
The Family Center launched in 2023 and aims to help parents and guardians “learn more about how your teen spends their time on Discord and allow you to play an active role in their experience with Discord.”
Now Discord announced This “original intent” is based on providing tools for caregivers to better understand “how their teens are using Discord and to engage in further dialogue with teens and caregivers about their use.”
With this update, parents and guardians can now enable new settings to control sensitive media, allowing them to blur, block, or leave content unfiltered, control whether friend requests, server private messages, or message requests are sent to all users, server members, or friends of friends, and use a “set” of data privacy settings.
This includes the ability to see purchases made in the last seven days, total voice minutes spent in the last week, and see “a stacked ranking of users and the servers they message with most often.”
The update also allows teens to notify their guardian when making a request, while ensuring they are fully informed through “full transparency” about what their guardians can see and what settings they have enabled.
However, parents and guardians will not see the content of messages sent by minors.
“Carers don’t have to be a Discord expert to support their teen,” the company said. “That's why, starting today, next week we're rolling out new Family Center features that will help caregivers stay informed and take a more active role in their teens' online experiences, while ensuring teens continue to have a say in shaping their digital environments. These updates are based on our teen safety guidelines, based on research and the opinions of teens.”
Last month Discord has confirmed that 70,000 users were affected by a recent data breach affecting a third-party customer support provider. with a “small number” including government ID cards.
