Use discord server to host LAN games

Example: My friends and I are on a private discord server.

Often times we want to be able to play videogames together in a private server.

Sure, we can port forward our computers, but few of us do and

people end up having to get me involved, since I knew how to port forward my PC as a techie,

when it would be so much easier to just host a game on the discord server.

Sure, I can host games on my lan, but then only my family can access it.

Sure, I could use Hamachi, but that's a whole separate peice of software most people don't want

to install, and it only supports 5 people.

And, discord may actually benefit from doing this. Why?

because Nitro could boost your speeds when using LAN on a discord server.

That's an excellent reason for many gamers to want to buy Nitro.

In terms of privacy, not an issue. Just make users give consent to use the VPN part of a discord server.

And, if some big public server doesn't want to allow server bandwidth to be used for LAN, (granted maybe some extra bandwidth would be required), they could simply not enable it in their server.

For all these reasons, I think this would be an outstanding feature for discord to add.

Thank you for considering it.

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