# Understand Discord

## The Discord App

Discord is a free and very popular real time chat application for building online communities. Anyone can start a community which discord calls a "Guild", and within guilds you can have many types of channels, which are rooms where many people can communicate and collaborate. 

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Discord Official Site
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## Realms and Discord

Realms interfaces with Discord as a "bot", it joins your server like a user, and interacts with users through displaying information in your channel or through Discord "commands", which users can submit through the chat input. Our bot gives you full power over the realm, we recommend trying the demo to better understand the usage.

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[Realm Tutorial](/explore-features/realm/realm-tutorial.md)
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