United Kingdom, Feb. 25 -- Discord has delayed plans to begin verifying the age of its users.

The online chat service announced earlier this month that it would soon require users to verify their age with either a face scan or a form of ID but has now put the changes on hold until later this year after a backlash.

Discord explained that it would meet any specific legal obligations it has for user age verification and stressed that age verification will be part of the platform in the future.

However, Discord is now developing "more verification options" for users that won't need facial or ID scans, with one such method being credit card verification.

Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord's co-founder and chief technology officer, wrote in a b...