United Kingdom, July 8 -- Discord has apologised for a bug which meant more than 8,000 accounts were mistakenly banned since May.

Over the past week, users have reported being banned for posting "benign images" with grids, like chessboards, Minecraft inventories and game textures.

Discord co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy wrote on X: "I want to apologize for a bug we fixed that over the weekend wrongly banned ~200 users over grid-like images, and ~8,000 more since May over other benign images.

"Everyone affected has now been unbanned."

He directed people to a support thread on the main Discord account on X, which went into more detail about the situation and how it has been resolved.

The Discord team wrote...