Earlier last week, Discord announced a significant change that would prevent iOS users from accessing servers with NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content. However, the company decided to reverse its decision on Tuesday and will now ease such restrictions, allowing NSFW content to be viewed on iPhone and iPad.
As mentioned by Gizmodo, Discord updated its guidelines on NSFW servers following the negative reaction of several users to last week’s decision.
While the original idea was to block any NSFW content on iOS devices, the restriction now applies only to servers that are focused on explicit pornography or other NSFW topics. The individual channels will still be accessible, and the NSFW content will be displayed according to the user’s age.
In a statement, Discord says it wants to make the platform safe for younger users and wants to avoid any conflicts with the App Store recommendations, which ban apps that provide easy and explicit access to pornography and other NSFW content.
Our goal is always to keep Discord safe, especially for our younger users. Last week, we introduced additional controls to ensure that minors will not be exposed to inappropriate content for them in accordance with the App Store rules. We realize that the community had many questions and we wanted to clarify our position and which servers will be affected or not. These updates are detailed in our support articles for users and server owners. We will continue to work with our server owners and partners and notify all server owners of which servers are affected.
While App Store guides can actually cause problems for apps with such content, rumors suggest that Discord has considered restricting NSFW servers to clean up the platform’s reputation, as the company is looking for potential buyers, possibly Microsoft.
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