Discord is an online platform for community and team communication, often used as a community communication option alongside Slack and Teams. It organizes members through servers and channels, supports text, voice, video, and permission management, and is suitable for gaming, open-source, and interest-based communities.

Discord is an officially hosted SaaS and does not provide a standard self-hosted deployment option, so it usually does not require users to prepare their own server resources and is difficult to customize for private deployment. Users in China need to evaluate access stability; it does not interoperate with the WeChat ecosystem, and local service providers and localized support in China are relatively limited.