Firey Ocean

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)

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sonic says the darndest things in this game

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Madeline from the platformer game Celeste

beat Celeste over the new years #art

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

I am so fucking tired of social platforms constantly shooting themselves in the foot.

"Please Help" TW: Cancer, Death

Please Help 🧵

My character Munk, in a more vintage illustration style.

Also Munk, but redesigned to wear more casual clothing.

When you redesign a character for the modern day. #art #ocs

YouTube video by westy The ULTIMATE Pencil Guide ✏️

PEN GUIDE DROPING 3 PM EST

youtu.be/4624tVldfAA?...

Forgot to post this here, oops

This is an illustration for the rom hack “What a Mario World”

Dedede's Massive Problem

#sketches #kirby

A sketch of Angye's head from a side view with two different versions to test colors. The one on the left, representing the new palette, has darker colors than the one on the right, representing the much more saturated and bright palette.

Sketches of Sonic and Needle (my Sonic OC) from a side view.

Damn, it's been over a month since I posted art. Here's a couple of things I drew recently.
#MyArt #Sonic #OC

SONIC ADVENTURE ILLUSTRATION

SONIC ADVENTURE #SonictheHedgehog #Sonic

been a long time since I've done (legitimate) sprite art, so heres this one off I had fun with the other day.

"what the fuck happened to my copy of Sonic Advance 3?"

Ballin²

Guess the characters

Oh yeah btw, Aidan is now Angye. I've been wanting to rename my older OCs.

A sketch of Angye's head from a side view with two different versions to test colors. The one on the left, representing the new palette, has darker colors than the one on the right, representing the much more saturated and bright palette.

Sketches of Sonic and Needle (my Sonic OC) from a side view.

Damn, it's been over a month since I posted art. Here's a couple of things I drew recently.
#MyArt #Sonic #OC

A couple werewolf drawings: one of someone snarling angrily mid-transformation, and another of a fully transformed individual standing uncertainly in a ripped shirt. Loose drawings for fun.

Sketches of my favorite monster for fun <3 #art

I wouldn't be surprised if it gets Sprinkler instead but we already have 13 unique weapons with it. Meanwhile, Torpedo only got to 8 with the latest third kit wave. Please just let me have it. 😭

A customized kit for Inkbrush, titled Permanent Inkbrush, that comes with a Torpedo and Big Bubbler. It costs 180 points for the special.

Manifesting torp bubbler for Inkbrush for when Sheldon's Picks inevitably happen.

Drawings of Max the Rabbit, the Sonic prototype.

Rough Max from the other day #art #fanart

Detour to the Future CH3 - pg 3 #sketches #SonicTheHedgehog #comic

Drawing of Quagsire and Clodsire meeting, with their Wooper children.

Let's meet our regional evos with mama #art #fanart #pokemon

here to post mario and his mouse friend

Melia from Xenoblade Chronicles, checking her sleeve, as a prarie dragonfly has landed on it.

oh melia, how i adore you and your outfit design #xenoblade #xc1

Mr. Hedgehog doodles

Sonic... that is all

Drawings of the Pokemon Quagsire and Wooper. Mostly focused on Quagsire being joyful, muddy, and swimming.

I offer you buoyant water potatoes. #art #fanart #pokemon