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Discord Channel

Postby Mojave » 04/27/2017 5:33 PM

What's Discord, you ask?

Discord is a chat option used by many games and gamers, and it's quickly (as far as I've seen) becoming a popular platform for groups to socialize. One of the ARPG games I play has thsir own channel, there are flight specific channels for FR, and my husband's milsim team has one.

You can participate in as many servers as you want, have a different nickname for each server (extra helpful for those of us that play multiple games), and if the servers are set up for it, have a voice chat for the extra chatty. It's accessible as web browser you keep open, an app on your desktop, and/or it can be an app on your phone.

So what does everyone think about setting up an Evelon channel?
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Re: Discord Channel

Postby zapdragon555 » 04/27/2017 5:43 PM

I've actually been entertaining the idea of this for awhile! I'm not sure if it would be official since the IRC has always been our official chat channel but Discord is a pretty rad thing and having different channels for different things (sharing doodles / art for people to see, etc) would be really neat.

My other instinct says that we should use the forums for sharing art and stories and whatnot but the addition of voice chat is really nice! It's up to mods on whether or not its official, but I can't imagine making an unofficial one would be a problem!



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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Mojave » 04/27/2017 5:47 PM

Well not everyone wants to change browsers to Firefox for chatzilla and mibbet is a pain in the @ss, so I figured we could ditch the slashnet channel and have this instead?
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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Jaykobell » 04/27/2017 6:32 PM

Mojave wrote:Well not everyone wants to change browsers to Firefox for chatzilla and mibbet is a pain in the @ss, so I figured we could ditch the slashnet channel and have this instead?


I was about to say, a whole lot of people can't access the IRC; or it's a hassle for them to access it period (Mibbit looks kind of antique TBH...... Lol)

I've never used a Discord room, but I'm wondering if it might be more stable / accessible than an IRC one? If so I'd say we should forego the IRC and move over to Discord.
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Re: Discord Channel

Postby zapdragon555 » 04/27/2017 7:23 PM

I didn't know some users had trouble with the IRC :0 It's always worked on Chrome for me!
But in that case, yeah, a Discord server sounds pretty darn nice.



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Re: Discord Channel

Postby SpringsSong » 04/27/2017 8:01 PM

I've lost track of how many times I've almost posted a similar topic about this since discovering Discord myself XD While the IRC is nice and all, Discord has less hiccups than the IRC.  With mobile, web, and desktop clients, I'd say it's also definitely more accessible than the IRC.  While it's something that's "always there" when you've joined it (assuming you have an actual account), you can choose to mute it if you need to.
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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Jaykobell » 04/27/2017 8:21 PM

zapdragon555 wrote:I didn't know some users had trouble with the IRC :0 It's always worked on Chrome for me!
But in that case, yeah, a Discord server sounds pretty darn nice.


Oh yeah that's been a fact ever since the beginning of time. xD TBH I think that's why it's always empty more than anything. A lot of people have a really hard time making it connect, and then programs like Mibbit are definitely not for everyone. I personally never had any issues with it that I can remember, but yeah I know a handful of people who kinda just gave up. xD

So yeah if Discord is more stable, I'd say it's worth looking into. A useable chat platform might help spur some community spirit and stuff. ;0 Or something. lol.
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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Redd » 04/29/2017 11:57 PM

I mean, I'm quite happy to set up a little trial for an official Evelon server if you guys want! Just means it'll be managed/moderated by the Evelon team, rather than you guys manage if yourself, but if it's liked and used, I can pop it up into the nav bar at the top of the forums?

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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Mojave » 04/30/2017 12:01 AM

That would be great Kreepy! C:
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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Redd » 04/30/2017 12:16 AM



I've done this before but I'm a bit eehh with the settings. Lemme know if there's anything that needs changing. I popped a voice channel in (I'm.. a little iffy on the concept but I'm happy to run a trial) but obviously, I have no control over content in there. There's also a trial #announcements channel for event reminders, new news posts, that sorta thing. Regular users... shouldn't be able to post in it but if you can, lemme know and I'll fiddle more.

Also if this works, then yeah, I'll make it more public in Announcements c:

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Re: Discord Channel

Postby Mojave » 04/30/2017 12:45 AM

Says you do not have permissions to view the message history of #announcements.
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