Platform insist "more than 90%" of users won’t have to manually confirm their age

Discord have rolled out a revised global age verification system, having delayed deploying one earlier this year following largely privacy-based backlash.

The revised system outlined by in a blog post by Discord chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy relies a lot more heavily on automatically estimating your age via aspects of your account, rather than defaulting to asking for facial age estimation or ID forms.

"We'll automatically place you in an age group using account signals, like how long your account has existed and the kinds of servers you're part of," Vishnevskiy wrote. "We use multiple account signals to determine age groups at an accuracy level matching what’s possible with biometrics. No single server determines your age group, and we don't look at your messages, calls, or other content to decide which age group you’re in." The three age groups the tech can place accounts in are adult (no restrictions), teen (some restrictions), and unconfirmed (also some restrictions). You can find which one you've been lumped into via the account status bit of your user settings.

In terms of proving your age manually, Discord stressed they've added more options to the list of ways you can do so, with some not requiring a video selfie or ID. Credit card verification via Stripe, Google Wallet's ID pass, a "reusable age credential" called AgeKey, and permitting either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store to share the age range they've got logged for you are all now potentially on the table depending on where you live and your device.

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