Overview
- TeamSpeak said on February 14 that an “incredible surge of new users” pushed hosting capacity to its limits in many regions, especially the United States.
- The company is expanding infrastructure and on February 16 added new community regions labeled Frankfurt 3 and Toronto 1 to handle demand.
- Discord’s Teen By Default rollout is slated for early March worldwide, introducing facial age estimation and government ID verification through external vendors for users the system cannot confidently classify.
- Discord has clarified that many accounts may be age‑grouped using information it already holds, reducing how often people are asked to complete explicit checks.
- Reports of a 2025 incident exposing roughly 70,000 age‑verification ID images are fueling migration interest, and TeamSpeak is positioning privacy features such as optional self‑hosting as differentiators.