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| Discord's Stage Channels on Desktop (image: Discord Official Site) |
Discord's latest feature Stage Channels is now available on all platforms which include Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. This feature works like the Clubhouse app where people can live broadcast audio in a room.
Discord is already a popular platform, especially for gamers. It allows its users to text chat and voice chat within a channel. But its new feature Stage Channel is a little different from a normal Discord channel.
In a normal Discord channel, a group of people can share texts and voice chat freely with each other. But in this special channel, only some people will be able to join the voice chat and others can only listen to it. So, this feature will be most useful for official events or special events.
Discord announced this feature on their Twitter account -
new type of voice channel just dropped.
— Discord (@discord) March 31, 2021
stage channels gives community servers better controls for audio-only events where some people can talk and others can listen as the audience. pic.twitter.com/NWUApOruxr
This kind of feature was first seen on the Clubhouse app. But the app is only available on iOS. So, Discord is the first company that is offering the audio broadcasting feature to all the platforms.
Though Twitter has also released the same type of feature named Twitter Spaces. But it is only available on Android and iOS apps. Moreover, Clubhouse has also confirmed that it is working on an app for the Android platform.