Short answers, pulled from the story.
Discord was publicly released in May 2015 under the domain name discordapp.com. Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy co-founded the company, with Citron funding Hammer & Chisel after selling OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for $104 million.
By August 2021, Discord reported an estimated valuation of $15 billion. The company had generated $130 million in revenue during 2020, which tripled its 2019 earnings.
Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and web browsers. The desktop client uses the Electron software framework to operate as an installed application across these platforms.
Russia officially blocked Discord on the 8th of October 2024 following a demand by Russian regulator Roskomnadzor to remove 947 posts containing illegal content. The regulator also fined the platform 3.5 million rubles ($37,493) for non-compliance.
In 2023, the Midjourney server reached over 15 million members, making it the largest server on Discord. Most servers have a default limit of 250,000 members unless the owner contacts Discord to raise the cap.