- Discord will soon treat all accounts as teen-friendly by default unless it’s confident you’re of an adult age.
- Access to age-restricted servers and features may require video selfie age checks or ID verification.
- The move echoes YouTube’s recent age-verification push, which frustrated many users.
Last year, YouTube made it clear that if it couldn’t tell whether you were an adult, it would start treating your account as if it weren’t. Some users shrugged and verified their age, while others refused on principle and suddenly found large parts of YouTube locked behind kid-friendly restrictions. Discord is now set to head down a similar path.
Announced in a press release today, and starting in early March, Discord will roll out what it calls a teen-by-default experience worldwide. Unless the platform is confident you’re an adult, your account will come with tighter limits by default. That includes losing access to age-restricted servers and channels, being unable to speak in Stage channels, and seeing sensitive content blurred. Messages from people you don’t know will also be filtered into a separate inbox.