With over 150 million active users, Discord has fast become the #1 chat app for gamers, students, businesses, friends and communities. This free platform lets people connect via text, voice, and video with tools for screen sharing, media uploads, and more.
Discord‘s slick interface and robust feature set has fueled massive growth beyond its gaming roots. Today over 87 million people use Discord daily to chat about everything from school projects and remote work to fitness goals, art, and casual conversations. People are increasingly choosing Discord over dated tools like Skype and Slack.
Now let‘s dive into mastering one of Discord‘s most useful text formatting tools – the strikethrough option.
What Exactly is Strikethrough on Discord?
When text formatting like bold and italics just isn‘t enough, Discord‘s strikethrough feature lets you cross out any words, sentences or paragraphs right within a chat.
This applies a horizontal line straight through the center of the selected text, indicating it should be ignored, discounted or is no longer accurate.
Here are just a few examples of how people utilize strikethrough in Discord conversations related to gaming, work, and beyond:
- Show prices or schedules that have changed
- Indicate instructions that are outdated or incorrect
- Cross out chat messages you want to retract
- Show misspellings or writing to ignore
- markup documents and text passages
The strikethrough tool gives users an instant, visual cue – disregard this text! It goes beyond deleting the message entirely.
Now let‘s get right into how to add this handy formatting with just a few clicks…or screen taps!
Step 1: Access Discord on Desktop or Mobile
First things first – load up Discord! You have flexibility in terms of device and platform here. Strikethrough is available across:
- Discord Desktop App – Windows and MacOS
- Discord Browser App – On any modern web browser
- Discord Mobile App – iOS and Android
I recommend the native desktop or mobile apps for the full seamless experience, but browser access gets the job done too.
Once you have Discord loaded, log into your account. Time to chat!
Step 2: Type Your Message and Highlight Text
Now within any Discord chat, group, server – doesn‘t matter – start typing your message.
Get to the word, sentence, or paragraph you want to strikethrough. To select it, click and drag your mouse over the text to highlight it. Make sure you grab all of the text!
Pro Tip: You can also use keyboard shortcuts to highlight text in Discord:
- Mac: Option + Click with your trackpad
- Windows/PC: Ctrl + Click with your mouse
- Mobile: Press and hold text to prompt highlight
This will streamline the process.
Step 3: Click the Beautiful Strikethrough Icon
Here comes the fun part! With your text selected, you should now see a mini formatting toolbar appear above with icons for italics, bold, underline, and finally the glorious horizontal strikethrough line.
Click this strikethrough icon and watch your selected words transform with a lovely line straight through them. Subtle yet clear visual indication to any readers that this text is discounted.
And the best part – no funny coding, markdown syntax, or shortcuts required. Discord formats for you instantly just with clicks!
The same steps work whether you‘re striking out a word, a whole paragraph, even an entire Discord message.
Bonus: Strikethrough Existing Messages
What if you sent a message awhile back and now need to update it with strikethrough?
No worries, you can edit any existing message to add strike formatting, as long as you catch it within a short window of time.
- Desktop: Hover over a sent message and click the 3-dot menu > Edit
- Mobile: Long press the message and tap Edit
This will put your message back into edit mode – just highlight and click strikethrough normally!
Remember: Your permission to edit messages depends on server moderation settings. In private servers, edits are often unlimited. Public servers block edits after 2-3 minutes typically.
Special Considerations on Mobile
Due to interface constraints, the Discord mobile app takes a slightly different approach to activating strikethrough.
Instead of highlighting text to bring up the formatting menu, you must manually add tilde symbols (~) before and after your message to strike it through:
~~This text would be struckthrough on mobile~~It takes an extra tap but gives you that smooth strike formatting anywhere you chat on mobile. Discord makes it work across platforms!
This covers the core essentials of employing strikethrough for better text clarity in your Discord chats. Let‘s wrap up with some pro power user tips…
7 Expert Tips for Strikethrough Success
As you integrate strikethrough into your Discord chats, keep these pro tips in mind:
- Use sparingly – Large walls of struck text are tough to read
- Combine formats – Use bold or italics too for contrast
- Small doses – Don‘t overdo it to the point text gets confusing
- Full words/phrases – Stick to striking complete ideas not individual letters
- Retract incorrect info – Strike previous bad advice, not just delete it
- Show evolutions – Keep oldSCHEDuled meeting time visible but struck
- Use instead of deleting – To preserve conversation flow and context
Let‘s Recap How This All Works…
| Step | Action | Details |
| 1 | Access Discord | Desktop, browser or mobile app |
| 2 | Highlight Text | In chat, select words to strikethrough |
| 3 | Click Strikethrough | In formatting toolbar, click strikethrough icon |
| 4 | Edit Existing Messages | Hover/long press messages to edit and add strikethrough |
And with that, you‘ve unlocked the skill of transforming Discord chat text with graceful strikethrough in just seconds.
Use this visual formatting power to indicate outdated info, pricing changes, private messages and more – the use cases are unlimited!
Now there‘s no need for confusion next time your gaming buddy messages the wrong meetup schedule or your work colleagues discuss outdated project plans. Just slash it through!
Discord on, friends. Discord on.
