It is unclear why the change was made, or necessary. An NSFW designation is only necessary if the majority of the server’s content is focused on 18+ content.” “Having NSFW channels in a server does not, however, automatically mean that an entire server should be designated NSFW. iOS users aged 18+ will only be able to join and access these dedicated pornography servers on the desktop and web versions of Discord,” it continues. “Additionally, a subset of NSFW servers that are specifically focused on explicit pornographic content will be blocked entirely on iOS. This will have to be done via the desktop client, however, rather than in an iPhone or iPad app.ĭiscord will notify server owners, “letting them know if their server has been impacted through a system message”, the new community guideline page states, with the ability to self-designate a server as NSFW coming to server owners soon. The new guidelines new say that while users between 13 and 17 will not be able to view content in NSFW servers, those over the age of 18 will be able to opt-in to view more suggestive text, images and videos.

“Discord will mark servers meeting these criteria as NSFW if they are not appropriately designated”, subsequently being inaccessible in the app, according to an old version of Discord’s Community Guidelines.

Originally, Discord had implemented a ban on communities that were “organised around NSFW themes or if the majority of the server’s content is 18+”, with managers having to mark their servers as such. Discord has changed its ban on NSFW servers after a week, now allowing groups sharing adult content to be viewed by users if they opt-in.

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