Some channels or servers may have the feature turned off.
Note that you can only stream in servers that have in enabled. Firstly, when you’re sharing your screen, you’ll see a little pop-up window of your screen on Discord. Instead, you can alter them as you’re working. Viewers can join in by hitting the “join stream” button when they notice somebody is live. Once you’ve started a screen share on Discord, you don’t need to stop and start again if you want to change any of the settings. This feature is built into the main Discord. You can choose to stream a specific window or your entire screen for your buddies. Maximum nine to ten other people on your server can do live video chat while simultaneously sharing desktops. Theres also the issue of someone unexpectedly starting to screenshare while Im ingame, leaving me wondering why Im suddenly lagging. When you connect to a voice channel, there will be an option to “Go Live!” in the channel that you can hit. If theres no way to disable it, my current options are: Ask everyone in the call to stop screen sharing. Please have patience with us as performance issues may arise in streams with a large number of people,” Discord said in a tweet. We’ll keep this limit up when it’s most critically needed. We want to help make your world a little less stressful.
We know a lot of you around the world are currently using Discord to keep in touch and perform daily tasks from keeping up with classes to working from home.
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