What is new in Taverns and what is happening to the places communities gather online, answered plainly at the top of every story and sourced line by line.
Explore now opens on one big Feed of posts from all of Taverns, not just the taverns you are in. Follow people, find your crew with hashtags and make friends you would never have met. Plus a shoutout to the members who shaped it, four up-and-coming taverns to visit and a mountain of fixes.
How do you meet new people on Taverns? Open Explore: Taverns now has one Feed of posts from everyone, not just the taverns you are in.
Taverns shipped 17 desktop releases in 16 days, with the web and phone apps updating right alongside. Here is every new thing since the Linux launch, from message edit history and an account switcher to encrypted calls, Taverns for OBS and a new home on the Mac App Store.
What’s new in the latest Taverns update? The October 2026 update brings message edit history, an account switcher, end-to-end encrypted calls, Taverns for OBS and Taverns on the Mac App Store.
Taverns, the free community app for gaming groups, now has a desktop app for Linux that runs on the Steam Deck too. Here is how to install it on any distro or on your Deck, plus the tavern folders, role menus, guest previews and other features that landed in the same release.
Is there a Taverns app for Linux and Steam Deck? Yes. Taverns has a free desktop app for Linux, and it runs on the Steam Deck.
Stage is a new kind of hall on Taverns, the free community app for gaming groups. Paste a video link and everyone in the hall watches the same second, with the chat beside it, reactions over the picture and an Up Next queue anyone can add to.
How do you watch videos together with friends online? Paste the video link into a Stage hall on Taverns, and everyone in the hall watches the same second, free.
Taverns, the free community platform for gaming groups, now has desktop apps for Windows and Mac: voice halls with screen sharing and cameras, DMs, GIF replies, custom emoji and tavern themes, on the same account as the iPhone, Android and web apps. Watch the launch video, then grab the app for your computer.
Is there a Taverns app for Windows and Mac? Yes. Taverns has free desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
Discord went dark on several Philippine networks on the night of September 23 after missing a 24-hour government deadline. The next afternoon the government lifted the block, and by that evening network tests showed Discord loading again. Here is what happened, what Discord promised, and what comes next.
Is Discord still banned in the Philippines? No. Discord is no longer banned in the Philippines.
