Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Hope this is not a fail~
Think this is also going to be my valentine picture for Liam this year!
#nsfw since it feels suggestive

After a long silence, I’m quietly returning to art. 🖌️

Looking for a calm place — 🙏
to share drawings, observe, and create at my own pace.

This is part of that return.
Hello, Bluesky. 🥺

#digitalart #digitalpainting #dragonage #fanart

Helping Nick with the tags over on here! Winner images can be found on his Streamily: streamily.com/nickboraine

And the Artists (in order by the listing)
@svanha.bsky.social (Both the hourglass painting and the manfred hug!)
@riadoodles.bsky.social
@lineupmu.bsky.social
@sh00kspeared.bsky.social

I have no self control. This is all your fault, Linny! (Affectionately) Also influenced by that pesky desire demon in her amulet. 😜
(Labeled just to be safe.)
#dragonage

study from a screenshot by thepeacefulknight on tumblr

#emmrichvolkarin #lucanisdellamorte #emmcanis

A sketch of the Bentham's Panopticon. The central watch tower, with an iconic Google 'G', is shining a rainbow beam onto a prison cell.

"At the end of the day, the gap between what Google says and what it does—its brazen violations of its own policies; its freedom to unilaterally change its terms and conditions; […] its sneaky attempts to opt you in to data-scraping initiatives—makes real privacy on their platforms impossible."

Avowed announced for PS5, coming February 17 alongside Anniversary Update

▪️New Game Plus
▪️New races to play (dwarves, orlan, and aumaua)
▪️New weapon type
▪️Photo Mode
▪️+ more

➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yhr...

#Avowed #PS5

Taking some more complex design commissions for $120! DM to claim a slot.

A branded magic the gathering play mat, with an art deco inspired white figure with a moon head, and a fire breathing lizard man attacking her

So @mattsamahl.bsky.social linked me this magic tcg mat, and I’ve never seen a more dragon age looking thing that isn’t dragon age before

Like if you posted this with “Ancient Qunari tired of Ghilan’nains shit’ I would have believed you