Follow these simple tips to reduce spam and get back to chatting with your friends about games, hobbies, and more.
Discord isn’t just the best way to get involved in your favorite gaming community and keep in touch with your gaming buddies: It also works extremely well for chatting generally with family, friends, or strangers. In fact, if it were practical, Discord would be my only chatting app.
That said, Discord also has a nasty tendency to overwhelm you with needless notifications. DMs, group chats, and servers you forgot about years ago can pile up over time, and constantly clearing out notifications from them can be quite the chore. You could always go with the nuclear option of deleting your account and starting fresh, but then you would need to spend time adding all your friends back and joining your favorite servers again.
Fortunately, you have better options for reducing notifications. Follow the tips below to take back your time.1. Leave Old Servers and Group Chats
Imagine when you get really into a new hobby or game. You might join a relevant Discord server to hang out in for a while. Then, you move on. Instead of leaving that server, though, you just stop opening it. Unfortunately, that alone won’t stop notifications from the server.
You should go through your server list and leave all the ones you no longer care about. I suggest doing the same with group chats that you don’t participate in but are still active. However, servers are the bigger offenders when it comes to unnecessary notifications because of Discord’s ping system, so you should focus your attention there first.
As a rule of thumb, I leave any servers I don’t actively use or plan on using. Just be careful about leaving invite-only servers or servers that need to verify your identity before you can access them. Otherwise, if you change your mind, rejoining a server takes only a few seconds.
