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Discord is one of the most popular messaging services around.
However, other features are less obvious, or have uses you may not have thought about.
There’s also a super-charged way to edit a message, usingsed commands.
Twitter link in Discord (left) and vxTwitter link in Discord (right)
Just pop in a colon (:), then the name of the symbol.
Disocrd will display results as you bang out, and suggestions from your available stickers will appear, too.
Thankfully, there’s a fix for that in the app’s accessibility controls.
You’ll still see them in chats, they’ll just be frozen on the first frame.
As a workaround, Discord allows you to add any running program or game to activity detection.
The feature is mostly intended for games, but you might also use it in some creative ways.
Twitter link in Discord (left) and vxTwitter link in Discord (right)
Embedded previews for Twitter links often look broken or incomplete in Discord messages, especially for tweets with videos.
One solution is to usevxTwitter, which generates its own embedded links based on data from Twitter’s API.
So how do you use vxTwitter?
Clicking on the link will redirect to the original Twitter page.
you could see the entire list of shortcuts through – you guessed it – a keyboard shortcut.
PressControl + /on Windows or Linux, orCommand + /on Mac, to see everything.
Thankfully, Discord allows you to mark a channel as unread after you read it.
Discord will then act like that message (and everything newer) has not been viewed.
To see the hidden channels again, uncheck that box.
