Welcome to the dawn of a new era for the Discord overlay. We can call this the Awesomozoic Era. No dinosaurs here. Instead, we have some awesome updates for the overlay released a couple days ago as well as a preview of some more updates to come.

We’ve got pictures for all these things, so please leave if you hate pictures.

What’s Already Available?

Overlay Performance Boost

We know how unreliable the Discord overlay has historically been. We understand how annoying that can be (we use it too!), so we’ve invested heavily in improving overlay performance. We’ve managed to get our overlay success rate up a lot. So basically, it should work most of the time instead of not working.

Furthermore, we’ve squashed some bugs like your mouse sticking on screen, pink screen of death, and render failures after alt-tabbing.

A Hot New Look

We’ve finessed our overlay to look more like the app. This redesign also gives us more room to expand and flex the overlay into the future.

Anyway, now you’ll see mute and deafen icons next to the voice indicators on the overlay. You can also move the voice indicators anywhere on your game screen now. The rectangle is freeeeee!!!