The Discord platform that was born in 2015 as a platform for players, has experienced growth in the last year, due to the pandemic, as have other less known applications so far such as Zoom. Thanks to this growth, Discord has also become a kind of social network full of communities.
The associated growth has consequences, as is usual. In this sense, Discord is seeing how many adult communities are being created, known in the United States as NSFW (Not Safe For Work), communities that are no longer available to iOS users through the application.
This restriction does not affect your website or the desktop application. But, the most curious of all, is that it also does not affect Android users, so everything seems that this limitation is sponsored by Apple. It is not the first time that Apple has forced a company to eliminate certain types of adult content, and everything seems to indicate that it will not be the last.
However, it is likely that although Apple is not the reason, it does have something to do with it. On March 22, Discord updated age rating from 12 to 17 at Apple's requestDue to how easy it is to access these types of communities, the Cupertino-based company required that the age rating be reflected.
Discord states that your platform is kid-friendlyHence, it does not remove adult content but does limit access from the iOS application. The company wants the little ones to be able to access the application even when parental controls are activated, since, above all, it is an application to chat with friends about video games.
This platform requires community owners to apply the NSFW label on channels with adult content if you only focus on adult content or most of it. Currently, Discord claims that it has more than 100 million monthly active users, which has aroused interest from Microsoft, who would be willing to pay up to 10.000 billion dollars.
