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> but then scrubbed every mention of games

There is a gaming area with a list of all the popular gaming discords, and it still shows your gaming status if you are playing a game. Was there anything more to it than that?

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They operated a games storefront and library for a short period of time, but that died pretty quickly.

Branding. Discord had references to games, gamers and gaming both in their client UI and official website. Placeholder images, Easter eggs and so on. All of that was scrubbed or replaced. Above all, it was a change in whom they consider their real target audience.

Won't someone think of the gamers!

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