Discord Starts Testing Movie Talk and Screen Share
Discord has dropped some big news on the digital communications front. As of yesterday, they flipped out Movie Talk and Screen Sharing to 5% of Desktop users. They’ve made it pretty clear that this is a petite beta test and not to expect a total launch for at least another month.
Have Access? Here’s How it Works
You can embark a movie call with anyone – even if they’re not in the 5% who got access. Presently, movie talk and screen sharing are only available via private DMs (up to groups of ten people). To initiate a call simply click the movie button. You can choose to switch seamlessly inbetween camera or screen share at the press of a button.
There are three different camera views to choose from in addition to fullscreen. If you click out of the main conversation during the call to browse other servers or DMs, the main feed will persist on top of your Discord window. You can dock the movie feed to any corner of the app.
Worth Noting
Bad roll-outs, bugs, cracked UI, and crashes are all things we’d rather do without. If complications arise during the testing phase, they may turn off the functionality. By kicking off with a smaller subset of users, Discord hopes to metal out the issues prior to a utter launch. Adding more servers, evaluating feedback, and testing will still need to be done before they’re ready to do a total launch.