Discord said Friday that it will shut down its Stage Discovery vehicle on October 4, less than six months after launch.
Launched in June, Stage Discovery is designed to help users find social sound rooms called Stage Channels. It used machine learning to create a list of channels a user might want to join. Discord says Stage Channels is a hit, but is keeping an eye on Stage Discovery to assess whether it's meeting its goal of helping people find community.
“While listening directly to our communities and admins, we learned that we still have work to do when it comes to server engagement and moderation,” Discord said in a post announcing its decision. “We will take some time to rethink the Discovery aspect of Stages and how we can better build a place that best connects people to the communities most relevant to them.”
Discord says it will continue to invest in Stage Channels, adding a few new features, including the ability to schedule events, the ability to extra scan, and improvements to moderation tools “to help moderators on Discord keep things organized and encourage healthy engagement within their communities.” .