Discord is a great way to keep up with your community. The platform allows you to chat via text, voice, and video with server members when needed and offers the ability to link your games on the platform. This can help server members identify when you are gaming so they can join you if they want to. Discord communities can grow quite large with thousands of members. This can make it a bit difficult to have a conversation with someone in particular or to connect with a specific server member. In such cases, you can opt to ping someone on Discord. Let’s learn more about pinging on the platform and how you can use it to your advantage.

Pinging sends a special notification to the pinged user, allowing them to jump directly to your message by clicking on it. So you can ping someone to get their attention, send them a personalized message, or start a special conversation in a text channel with a lot of ongoing conversations.

Pinging can also help you reach offline users, as well as members with special roles, moderators, and administrators in case of emergency. So when you need to reach someone in particular on Discord, you can ping them to easily get their attention.

There are a few different types of pings you can use on Discord. These usually vary depending on what you’re using to ping someone and who you choose to ping. Here are all the different types of pings you can send on Discord.