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Official Discord Integrations for Steal a Brainrot, Grow a Garden, Brookhaven RP, and more (opens in new tab)

Discord is launching native Social SDK integrations for Roblox games including *Steal a Brainrot*, *Grow a Garden*, *Brookhaven RP*, and others. The integrations improve community safety while enabling account linking, Rich Presence, and one-click game invites. Discord emphasizes that users retain control over data sharing, visibility, and account authorization. ## Integrated Community Safety - Developers can require players to link their Roblox account and authorize a specific game before joining an official Discord server. - This helps verify that participants actually play the associated Roblox game. - Server access and direct messaging can be limited to linked players, improving privacy and reducing unwanted interactions. - Developers can apply in-game moderation decisions to Discord bans, reducing manual moderation work. - *Grow a Garden* is highlighted as an example where verified-player access can support a safer competitive community. ## Account Linking and Player Control - Rich Presence and Game Invites work only after users connect their accounts and authorize the individual game. - Players choose whether to share their information and can revoke authorization at any time. - Rich Presence visibility can be managed through Discord’s **Settings → Activity Privacy → Activity Sharing** controls. - The SDK provides a native alternative to third-party Roblox–Discord account-linking tools. ## Rich Presence for Roblox Games - Roblox players previously appeared on Discord only as “Playing Roblox.” - With the integration, games such as *Brookhaven RP* can display richer activity details, including the game name, location, and current activity. - This gives friends more context and helps games become more discoverable across Discord. ## One-Click Game Invites - Discord users can see what friends are playing and join their sessions directly. - In *Grow a Garden*, players can invite friends to share, trade, and explore their farms without leaving Discord. - The feature simplifies coordinating group play through official game servers. ## Expansion Across the Roblox Ecosystem - Discord plans to extend its existing community-management tools to Roblox developers. - Roblox games often use Discord for event coordination, announcements, feedback, and player engagement. - The integrations support communities built around activities such as *Grow a Garden* events and *Steal a Brainrot*’s raid-and-defend gameplay. Developers adopting the SDK can provide safer, more trusted Discord communities while giving players optional social features and direct control over their account connections and activity sharing.

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Discord Patch Notes: November 4, 2025 (opens in new tab)

Discord’s November 4, 2025 patch focuses on faster startup and calls, more reliable streaming, improved notification processing, and a broad set of platform-specific fixes. Audio devices now initialize during call connection, reducing connection times by roughly 5–15%, while asset-fetch retries have reduced startup failures by about 80%. The release also improves Roblox streaming, iOS notification emojis, accessibility, navigation, and chat rendering. ## Performance and Reliability - Roblox streams on PC should no longer appear as blank or white frames, thanks to a more reliable capture pipeline. - Audio devices such as microphones now start while a call is connecting rather than afterward. - Notification targeting is up to five times faster, improving notification availability. - Asset-loading retries have significantly reduced startup failures that previously required closing and relaunching Discord. ## General Improvements - Desktop Quick Switcher returns more results when searching without a type filter. - Server administrators can now apply age restrictions to servers. - Discord fixed incorrect content-type headers for text attachments, including subtitle files. - Apple Maps link embeds work again. - Overlay dismissal correctly returns focus to the game. - Passkey prompts no longer appear when a passkey is already enabled. - Numerous layout, localization, tooltip, profile-editing, status, badge, and scrolling issues were corrected across desktop and mobile. ## Mobile and Platform Fixes - Custom emojis now render in iOS notifications. - Android fixes address unwanted vibration in Appearance settings, swipe navigation, role-management state resets, server-list rendering, chat loading, and bottom-navigation text truncation. - iOS fixes improve emoji-picker navigation, event controls, username rendering, server-join text, and message editing. - Desktop fixes include muted badge colors, profile-preview overlap, status resets, profile-editor blank screens, and localized button tooltips. ## Chat and Messaging - Fixed message spacing, forwarding layouts, reply-preview emoji overlap, and text-input positioning on iOS and desktop. - Android chat should no longer display a gray screen. - Forum-channel links and Markdown previews now render correctly. - Dark-mode forum previews no longer display links and mentions in black. - Spoilers render interactively and consistently, including inside code blocks. - Fixed potential crashes and visual issues when reacting to messages on iOS. - Desktop channel notification menus now display all available options. The patch is primarily a reliability and polish release, with the largest user-facing benefits coming from faster call connections, fewer startup failures, and more dependable streaming. Fixes may continue rolling out across platforms after publication.