Discord bug causing unexpected crashes for some

Many users are reporting a frustrating bug in Discord that’s leading to unexpected app crashes. The problem seems to pop up most often when people try to join voice or video calls. This issue isn’t isolated to one version of the app either. People using the desktop application, the web browser version, and even the mobile app have shared similar experiences.

The specific triggers for the crash vary somewhat. For some, like Reddit user Brown_ie_, the crash, displaying a “Well, this is awkward” error screen, happens immediately upon joining a direct message call. They noted, “If I join a call in a server, but don’t fully open the vc screen it works, but the second I click into it fully it crashes.” Interestingly, they could still hear and talk to friends despite the crash screen being visible.

Another user, evanlee01, suspects the issue is linked to video processing. “It seems to happen only when there’s any video-related stuff,” they commented, adding that enabling their camera or joining a call where another person’s camera is active would cause Discord to crash.

Users have been trying all the usual fixes. These include restarting their devices, reinstalling the Discord app, clearing the cache, updating drivers, and tweaking various in-app audio and video settings like hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, for many, these standard troubleshooting steps haven’t resolved the problem. User teeth_cake shared their experience, “for me it doesn’t crash instantly but rather when i try to open the call window, i tried every possible solution that i found online and still nothing.”

There might be a glimmer of hope with an unusual workaround. A few users discovered that changing Discord’s language setting from UK English to US English surprisingly fixed the crashing. User Substantial_Cloud724 mentioned, “I’ve found that when i changed my client from UK English to US English it crashed once more than magically fixed, really strange but let me know if that works for you <3”. Another user, No-Pear-6949, confirmed, “It worked 😀 ty!”

Separately, some mobile users have reported a different crashing issue. Their Discord app unexpectedly closes when they try to view messages from blocked users. User Kita posted, “discord is actually fu**ed with the mobile builds. for some weird reason, trying to read blocked messages just hard crashes the app.”

Several other users also confirmed the same issue happening on their devices. One of them even shared a screen recording that you can check out below:

For now, many affected users are stuck, hoping Discord addresses these bugs in an upcoming update. While the language-setting workaround offers some relief for the call-related crashes, it’s not a universal fix, and the blocked message issue on mobile remains a separate concern.

Featured image credit: No-Pear-6949 / Reddit