This article will introduce Discord streamer mode in 5 aspects: what it is, why need it, what does it do, how to enable it and how to fix its not working problem.

Discord is one of the most popular social platforms for the gaming community. It has integrated with streaming services. Therefore, game players can make use of Discard to live stream their gaming session to others and create their own little fan community.

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What is Discord streamer mode?

What is Discord streamer mode? Discord Streamer Mode automatically hides users’ private information from others. With this streamer mode, Streamers and YouTubers are able to make their account private. If they open their profiles in streamer mode, their personal information is removed or blurred. For example, their username ID is anonymous. Therefore, they do not have to blur private info out in a video while using Discord.

Annoyingly, when you decide to stream your game, you aren’t just streaming your favorite FPS or MOBA title. You’re also streaming everything else that crops up on your display – including private messages and popups. Whilst this probably isn’t a huge problem for some individuals, bigger streamers that have a few million followers may feel obligated to protect their data.

Picture it, you’re streaming to 20,000 viewers, and all of a sudden, your buddy’s private message pops up with some intimate information that definitely shouldn’t be shared to that many strangers on the internet. Things could get messy real quick. For that reason, Discord decided to create Streamer mode.

Streamer mode is Discord’s safety facility that changes what your viewers can see when enabled. It blocks popups, private messages, and invitations that could be abused by some viewers.  By hiding personal information, it allows streamers to still utilize Discord to the fullest during streams – even letting you go onto your Discord server without giving away any personal information.

What Information Can Streamer Mode Hide?

But, what exactly do you mean when you say, “personal details”? Below we have outlined all the major information that Discord’s Streamer Mode suppresses during a live stream.

• Hides Personal Information: Personal information is a fairly broad term. That said, in this scenario, we reference things such as email addresses, accounts linked to your Discord server through the “connected accounts” section (E.g YouTube/XBOX), any notes that you may have left on friend’s accounts (visible when you click on a friend’s account), and it also hides the discriminators of Discord users.

• Invite Links: Enabling this setting will hide any invite links that you have generated, whether they be for yourself or not. This prevents random users who watch your stream to use the invitation code to join your private Discord server.

• Mutes all client sounds: This setting will suppress unwanted sounds from the discord client, including messages notifications, users entering your Discord channel, and any other notification sounds that might occur.
• Notification popups: Lastly, you can suppress all notifications from the Discord client itself. This stops accidentally showing private notifications that may air personal information you do not want sharing with random users on the internet.

How to Enable Streamer Mode

Step 1. Integrate Discord with Your Streaming Platform

For most Discord users, they already have their streaming platforms. Yet, if some of you have not yet started your streaming journey, you should first integrate this tool to one streaming platform that you like. There are many popular streaming platforms like YouTube and Twitch.

1. Click the User Settings (gear) at the bottom of Discord screen.
2. Select Connections.
3. Move to Server Settings and choose Integrations.
4. Select the platform that you want to sync your Discord account with.
5. Click Sync besides the platform.

Step 2. Enable XSplit Software

From Wikipedia, XSplit is a video-mixing and live streaming program. It is mainly used for capturing gameplay for streaming or video recording task.

1. Download and install XSplit.
2. Allow XSplit to access to certain aspects of your Discord client.
3. Customize XSplit overlay.

Step 3. Enable Discord Streamer Mode

1. Move to User Settings.

2. Click on Streamer Mode on the left menu.

3. Tick Enable Streamer Mode in the right area.

Other options that you can tick:

• Keybind settings – This feature enables you to set up a shortcut to turn on streamer mode.
• Automatically Enable/Disable – If you are using OBS or XSplit, enable this option will keep Discord streamer mode always on. So, you don’t have to worry about forgetting to hide privacy.
• Hide Personal Information – This option will hide email, connected accounts and anonymize DiscordTags.
• Hide Instant Invite Links – This choice is recommended to you if you don’t want random people accessing your Discord servers. It will hide your invitation code from the streaming video.
• Disable Sounds – Tick this option to turn off all sound effects.
• Disable Notifications – All desktop notifications will be disabled if it is chosen.

When you finish above operations, you can go to Account tab. If there is a picture shows “STREAMER MODE ENABLED”, it means you have successfully turned on streamer mode. Congratulations!

Optional: Third-Party Apps

When you enable Streaming mode, you can add extra third party apps using the same Integrations menu from the first step.

For example, you may want to add a ‘Nightbot’ to moderate your chat, and it can sync with the Discord bot that moderates your chat. There’s also the Muxy extension, which is essentially a Twitch extension that connects to your Discord server. You can alert your viewers when you go live, show analytics of your stream, and post subscriber messages on your Discord chat.

Stream Safely

Thanks to Discord’s Streamer mode, you can play any game without worrying about your personal data falling into the wrong hands.

The ‘enable automatically’ option will add an extra layer to your security, and integration with various widgets can help you have a carefree streaming experience.

Discord Streamer Mode Not Working

Sometimes, the streamer mode may not work for some reasons. You can try the following methods to fix this problem.

1. Go to Settings > Games, and turn off “Display currently running game as a status message”.
2. Disable and enable streamer mode once again.
3. Reinstall Discord, reconnect streaming platform and toolkits.

Conclusion

So, there you have it, our quick guide on how to use Streamer Mode on Discord. Thankfully, the process is pretty easy. And by enabling it, you’ll no longer have to worry about unveiling private information to the hundreds, or thousands, of people that are watching your stream.