Discord is pushing back plans to start verifying the age of all users in March after weeks of user ire.
Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord's co-founder and chief technology officer, said a planned global rollout of a verification process to determine users under the age of 16 would be delayed until the latter half of this year.
Discord stressed it would meet any specific legal obligations it has for age verification of users, and that age verification will be part of the platform in the future
However, the platform said it was now developing "more verification options" for users that would not require facial or ID scans. One such option in development is credit card verification.
"We knew this rollout was going to be controversial," Vishnevskiy wrote in a Tuesday blog post.
