Every one of us loves to stay in touch with our friends that are living distant from us, and thanks to the smart gadgets and chat apps that enable us to stay closely connected with each other. Whether it’s about chatting to friends and family on video chat, sending and receiving text messages, or making audio calls, applications like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have contributed to making our conversations more interesting and fun. Among all other communications platforms, Discord is also a free and popular chat app that is specially designed to entertain gaming communities. It’s a great option to choose to talk to your friends during your gameplay.
Using the Discord chat app is pretty much easy for anyone as it simply needs you to create an account. There are a lot of great options and features added to it that you can easily use. For instance, its slow mode feature slows down the channel’s user messages. If you have recently joined this gaming/chatting platform, you might not know about this functionality. And if you are wondering what exactly Discord’s slow mode feature is and how to use it, you will need to read this entire post.
What is Discord’s slow mode feature, and how to use it?
Sometimes, you might want to slow down things in a chat channel. Within your chat groups, there are times when every member seems to stay active at once. And your group chat box gets filled up with messages that it becomes difficult for you to follow the conversation. Let’s say you are typing a reply to one of the messages in your group chat, and then you find 15 new messages below it. The conversation has now changed, and you don’t get to reply to that message. Well, that might sometimes be quite frustrating for anyone. And in such cases, you can use the Slow Mode feature if you are a Discord user. The following feature is actually a setting that enables members in a Discord channel to send only a single message in a given time interval.
In simple words, if a slow mode is activated in a channel and is set to say 1 minute, it will allow you to send only a single message in a minute to that channel. Also, you need to know that the slow mode feature is not applicable to the users who have the ‘Manage Channel’ or ‘Manage Messages’ permissions. If you wish to enable the slow mode feature, you will have to follow the proper procedure that we have mentioned here. Please take a look at the below-given instructions.
The method to enable/disable the slow mode feature in Discord
Please go through the instructions to enable/disable the slow mode feature in a Discord channel:
- To activate the slow mode feature in a Discord channel, you need to be the owner of the server and make sure you have all the necessary permissions.
- Next, you will click on the cogwheel icon located next to the channel name. Alternatively, you can right-click on it and press the “Edit Channel” button.
- Under the “Overview” section, you will be able to see the “Slow mode” setting along with a meter under it. This meter comes with a range from ‘Off’ to ‘6hr.’
- By default, the option wouldn’t be activated. You will be able to drag the bar to any number as shown on the meter to adjust the time interval.
- To confirm your action, you need to hit the “Save Changes” button. You can set the time as per your preferences, ranging from 5 minutes to 6 hours.
- The members of the channel will be able to send only a single text at the preferred time to that channel.
- If you want to enable the slow mode feature on the Discord mobile app, you will have to long-press on the channel name for which you want to activate the setting.
- Next, you will move to the ‘Edit Channel” section and scroll down until you find the option of “Slow Mode,” and then click on it.
- You will then see a slow-mode cooldown meter. You will need to set the meter as per the time interval you prefer.
- At last, tap the floppy disc icon to save the settings you have just made. And that’s it.
Steps for disabling the Discord’s slow mode feature
After using the feature, if you wish to disable it, you are advised to go through the steps mentioned below:
- To deactivate the slow mode feature, click on the cogwheel icon beside the channel name and go to the “Edit Channel” section.
- Now, under the “Overview” section, click on “Slow Mode” and drag the bar to the extreme left or turn it off completely by clicking on the “Off” mode.
- At last, click on the “Save Changes” button to confirm your action. And that’s it.
- On a mobile device, you need to press the channel name and then go to the “Edit Channel” button to click it.
- Scroll down to get to the “Slow Mode” settings section and drag the cursor to the extreme left.
- Save the applied settings by tapping on the floppy disc icon. And that’s it.
Conclusion
So, now you know how you can enable or disable the slow mode feature in your Discord channel. Try any of the given methods now, as they both seem pretty straightforward. And please keep visiting our official website to read more guides like this.