Guilded is a proprietary group organization platform that was developed and publicly released by “Guilded, Inc.” on March 16, 2017,¹⁾²⁾ but then Roblox Corporation acquired it on August 16, 2021³⁾⁴⁾ and forced users to have Roblox accounts⁵⁾ which damaged its reputation.

In the beginning, Guilded was introduced to Reddit⁶⁾ as a one-stop team coordination hub, that intended to alleviate the stress of coordination by coming with its own calendar, forums, recruiting system, scheduling tools, and so on.⁷⁾⁸⁾⁹⁾ The project left beta on May 18, 2020,¹⁰⁾ where it started to gain traction as a Discord alternative,¹¹⁾ then Guilded was acquired by Roblox Corporation on August 16, 2021.^12)13)14)15)

This had an inverse effect on Guilded, since Roblox arguably had a reputation of being a game for kids with tons of micro-transactions rather than a standalone corporation. Then on May 30, 2024, Guilded made a controversial announcement that they will discontinue email logins, forcing users to have a Roblox account to use the platform after July 15, 2024.¹⁶⁾

For starters, Guilded offers several paywalled Discord features for free (e.g. 500 MB upload limit, animated avatars, banners, custom invite links, global animated emotes, stream quality controls, etc.). Furthermore, Guilded offers a wide variety of channel types and coordination tools, which does fulfill its purpose as a one-stop team coordination hub. The ten channel types, as of June 2024, are listed below:

1. Chat - The usual instant messaging channel.
2. Streaming - For screen sharing, video chat, and voice chat.
3. Voice - Voice chat, but with subrooms as well. Quite similar to TeamSpeak.
4. Calendar - For organizing and scheduling events.
5. Scheduling - A tool that lets people provide their availability, very useful for scheduling.
6. Announcement - Blog-like channel for announcements and comments.
7. Forums - You should know what an internet forum is by now.
8. List - It's a to-do list, but people also can also add comments to items on the list.
9. Docs - Presumably for easier file sharing.
10. Media - A gallery-like channel where you can upload media.

• A better analogy would be “Discord with Google Drive”, rather than calling it a Discord alternative.
• Regardless of its status, Guilded is still a competitor to Discord nonetheless. Whether it has actually caused Discord into adding or copying new features from Guilded remains up for debate.

• Guilded - The front page of Guilded.
  • Guilded Blog and Changelog - General information about the platform.
  • @teamguilded on Twitter - The official Twitter account.