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How to Use Discord - Beginner's Guide
Hey everyone in today's video. I want to show you how to use discord. Any of you've never heard of this cord is that all they want medication platform and is free to use. So you could do text-based chats. You could do voice and video chats and you could image share your screen, and you could create your own server, which is your digital world inside of this cord and you could invite members to it there, or you could follow or join other servers that other people created and have communication within those platforms. So I'll show you everything about using discord. It's available on [email protected] That's what I'm going to show you, but it has windows and Mac applications that are identical to the browser.
So all of those are going to look the same and then I'll make, a separate video on the mobile version of it too. But the fundamentals are all the same. Now to get this score. If you come to discord.com, you could actually go ahead and download the app. So I'm on a Mac. So it's going to say, download for Mac OS.
If you're on windows, it's going to say download for windows and if you use your Android and iOS app, You could use it that way again, I'll make a separate mobile video. So instead of saying open discord in a browser, I'm just going to go ahead to the signup option on the bottom of the page. So you'll come to the, create an account page that other way also brings you to the same place, but I'll just go ahead and create an account again, email, username, and password, and continue and here, it's going to ask me to create my own server and you could also choose from these templates here. I'll show you this in a second. I'm just going to press X here to show you the layout of the app. So when you look at this cord on the very left side, these are where your servers are going to be.
Inside of each server, these are where your channels are going to be an inside of those channels, this is where your conversation is going to be. So three different separate columns. Think of the server as the top layer, the way you would organize anything. So I could have my own server. Someone else could have a server, a company could have a server and channels is where you would organize that server into different topics and it will make more sense when we created our own server and inside of each channel, you could have different people there. So that's basically the layout in three different columns. So we'll start with the very first one on the left, and that's by adding a server now by clicking plus you could join an existing server that CPU know the code of the server or the link someone sent you or if you want to create your own server you can basically press this here if you press to join a server, this is the invite link that you have to type here and then press join.
But in my case, I'll go ahead and create one. Then I'll show you it'll follow other servers too. So you have multiple servers on the left side. Then you could go ahead and name your server here. You could upload an image icon. I'll go ahead and do that. So maybe a logo like this, and you could basically make this your profile picture.
I'll go ahead and rename the server and I'll press create and if you wanted to invite someone server-wide, this is your invite link here and at the time I'm recording this, this one expires in one day. So you could set this to never expire and people will be able to use this other link to join your server any time I'm going to press X out of here and now, as you can see on the very left side, we have our own server here. Now, let me show you how to add another server this time, not our own. So we're not going to press create or join one, but we're going to look at some public servers. Some servers could be public and others could be private. I'll show you that as well by let's press search and you'll see a bunch of servers here that you could join.
So I'll go ahead and look up one for a game and when you search for anything here, you could see the number of people that are online and the number of members each server has. So let's say I wanted to join this one. I'll click it. So now that I've looked up that server, I'm still not a member and I haven't joined the server yet.
It says you are lurking. You have to join to start chatting. But the organization of the server is the same as the one I created. So you have your server on the very top and inside of that, you have these hashtags, these are your different channels for different topics. I'll show you how to create these and then you have your folders too. So you could organize these in these category folders and the channels are inside of each one and as you jump into each individual channel, you'll see everything that has been talked about within the channel and within that topic. So it's a nice way to organize. Your server into different channels.
So everything is not taking place in one place. I'm going to go ahead and press join and now you're a member. Now I could go back to my own server and start creating my own channels. So those are your three options, basically pressing plus creating a server or joining one day, you have an invite link to or pressing the search icon and just following any popular server or searching for one. So in my case, I'll just go ahead and click on this other one and I'll press join on top remember you have to press join. If you want to have the conversation, otherwise you could be just lurking and seeing what's in the server.
At any time to, and any of these servers, you could go ahead and right-click on the server and you'll have some options like leaving the server or muting the server too. If you want to do it that way or if you have inactive servers here, these are some nice options to know about. Now let's go back to my own server.
So we could actually look at how to create channels, how to create these categories. You have two types of channels. You have. Your text-based channels and you have your voice-based channels and you could have these folders have multiple different types of channels inside of each one. So by default, I got a general text-based channel and a general voice-based channel.
I'll have to give it access to. So if I click it, it's going to ask me to get access to my video and to my microphone and to my screen, if I want to. So those are the options that you see. So inside of the voice channel, that's where your video. And your screen sharing options are available. So those are the four different things you could do.
Text, voice, video, and share all available here on your channels. Let me go back to the text-based channel. This is where we start. So here it says invite people to the server right now. I'm by myself, but I'm going to organize it before I invite anybody. So to create a new channel. All I have to do is under that folder.
So you see this little arrow with that folder, in this case, text channels or press plus, and you could see, I could make a channeled text, or I can make a channel voice by just checking this on and let's say, this is going to be where Instagram has tons are going to take place and I'll press create a channel, and it's going to be a text-based channel and you could see it, it put it right here.
So I could jump into that channel and now I have a new channel there, the same thing with a voice-based channel. I could go there and press the plus sign and create my own channel. Make sure voice is selected and give that channel a name and create it. Now I have that channel under the voice channels. Now, how do I invite people?
Well, I just have to come to that channel and press this create the invite and any will create this link for me and I could set this link to never expire by default. They expire in one day, which is a good security option. So people can just join this any time or you could press the settings icon here and set how long this is good for.
So if you want it to just be good for like 30 minutes, you could set that and you could change the number of users. So if you just want to limit this to five people, for example, you could do that or you could just set no limits or a whole lot of people could join the server. Like some of the servers, I showed you where hundreds of thousands of people were a member.
Now within each channel. I have my messages here. So on a text-based channel, for example, this one, I could go ahead and type up my message here and press enter, and he will have my message here and he will fill out this page as we go and besides text messages, just like the one you see here, I have some options here.
Like adding gifs and emojis where I could go ahead and add any number of things here as a message and press enter and other people that are joining this channel could do the same thing and if I press the plus sign, it would actually give me access to actually upload different files like this. Onto here, like images.
So that's an option within the plus sign and on the far, right, this is going to show you who's online. So if you click this option over here, you're going to see all the members in this specific channel. Some of them are going to have different icons. Like I'm the server owner. I created the server. So I have this little icon next to my name, but you'll see this populate.
As you add more members here and there's this little icon for it, the member list. If you want to hide that, you could always press that and then you'll get more space here and the other option that's important to click on is your little icon here. If you click it, you could show your status online.
So if you want people to know that you're online, it usually shows your activity here too. If you're planning a game online, it's going to show that. So if you want that, that's okay. Leave it online. That's by default, you could change it to idle do not disturb any visible as well. So those are your default options here.
So if you want it to be idle and not respond to messages here, you could just go ahead and change your status. Let's jump into another server here. That's more populated. When a channel has a lot of different members, you could see that the layout is a little bit different. So, these are categorized by that permission for staff, for moderators, for volunteers, and just regular members here are also listed.
So there's a lot more to look at here when you go to a bigger channel with a lot of members and a lot of them in the settings too, are assigned a different color. So they show up as a different color here on the side. So you could see the staff has its own color and members and moderators. They all have different colors to create new roles.
So different people could have different permissions. If you right. Click on your server here, you'll have, I have an option hereunder server settings called roles. So if you click that, you basically bring you to this page and on the roles. Right now, I only have everyone by default. When you create a server, you have them, every one option and every one by default is going to have these types of permissions here.
So basically not much that they could do if they have the everyone role, but if you press the plus sign and if you create a new role, so this is the admin role that I want to create. I could give it a different color. I'll make this one blue, for example, and if you scroll down, you could give them the different types of permissions here.
So the admin is going to get this permission and you could also go through all these different items here and then go ahead and save changes. So now when people join you, you could go ahead and right-click their name here, and then you could assign them a different role, very useful and when a channel has the permission to let other people invite like any member could press invite, I could go ahead, and press invites to the server and invite other people to that specific server as well.
That is not my own server. So I get this invite link that I could send to my friends to join me here. In this channel and let's look at these voice connected options here. Again, I just clicked my voice channel here and I made sure I give it access to my camera and my microphone. So you have your video where you could turn on your video.
You could go ahead and share your screen if you want it to. So you could share your entire screen or individual application here. You could go ahead and unmute yourself. So if you press this, people could hear you inside of that voice channel. So that's one thing to check and define basically mutes the channel.
So you can't hear anything and you have your settings where you could go on their app settings here for voice and video. Give it access to your microphone here. And these are some of the options that you have, which voice activity is a good one that's on by default. So when you talk, people could hear you, or you could go ahead and push to talk, but I recommend just voice activity here.
So every time you start talking, you don't have to press anything. You could go ahead and do a mic test, and you could also change your input device. In my case, I'm using the Yeti stereo mic, which sounds exactly like what you hear, which is a lot better. Then my computer will pick it up from the internal microphone.
So if you want to sound better, I recommend just getting this microphone. I'll put a link to it in the description below, and your output just could be your internal speaker here, and you could play with your volumes and test your mic here. So I wanted to show you the voice and video settings. It tends to be one of the most commonly asked questions here inside of this court and to create these categories, basically, all these channels are inside of these folders or categories.
If you come up here again, and if you click this down arrow again, you have some of the similar options that we've looked at before, like inviting people, but all your settings are over here. So if I want it to create a category, which has this folder icon, which will host these channels inside of it, I could just press that, and I could give it a name here, and if I want it to be a private category, this is where I would select that. I'll leave this as is, and I'll press create, and it created this category and now I could press the plus sign and put a channel in here, or I could go ahead and drag a channel and put it over here too. So I could organize all my channels here into these folder categories and lastly, I'll show you the desktop version again, as you could see, it looks exactly like what you saw on the website. So you have your servers here. On the left side, everything I did on the desktop on discord.com also shows up over here and if I had more people that I invited online that will show up here on the right side and that's the general overview of this course. So you could create your own server. You could join a server. Someone gives you an invite link to or you could press the church and join just about any service we're here. As you can see, there are many, many, many servers you could choose from in many interests, a lot of them related to gaming and different communities here that you could join.
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