Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing

Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. 

Discord cofounder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy said in a Tuesday blog post that, okay, maybe the company messed up when it announced it was going to verify the ages of users beginning in March and restrict unverified accounts from accessing potentially adult spaces. 

"We've made mistakes. I won't pretend we haven't," Vishnevskiy said. "Many of you walked away thinking we're requiring face scans and ID uploads from everyone just to use Discord."

The Discord CTO said the company has no plans to do that, as we explained in our story earlier this month, "but the fact that so many people believe it tells us we failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why ...