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Discord server
I was going through the responses to /u/Kat's Tildes Survey Results and it looks like a good bunch of us use Discord, me included. I decided a Tildes discord server might be of use. It's not officially endorsed or anything, but I thought there might be interest. Any suggestions would be great :)
Am I the only one who thinks a discord server for a discussion board is unnecessary? The whole point of ~ is to talk, and I am not certain what niche discord fills for this community that posting on ~ itself does not.
You'll be talking to only a fraction of the current userbase so it'll more or less just turn into an echo chamber.
That's a good point. I feel like there are some discussions that would be better suited to not take place on a message board, like more informal conversations. This is really just to gauge the interest, it would be fine for this to be completely unused
yo dawg, I heard you like talking...
Of all of the available options I don't understand why you'd pair an AGPL licensed security and privacy focused application with Discord, a proprietary application that plans to make money off of collecting and selling user information (if they don't do so already they have clauses in their TOS that allow for it).
An official irc server or mumble server would make more sense.
But I think it's a bit premature to do either right now.
Another good suggestion. Another possibility would be Riot, although I haven't used the platform so I'm not sure how well fleshed out it is.
EDIT: Link
Yeah, a Matrix server hosted on the tildes.net domain would be preferable (to a Discord server). Might want to wait until Dendrite releases, though; it's a new Matrix backend that should significantly lower ram consumption and message latency (it'll also replace Synapse, the current default implementation). That's due in ~6 months or so, if I'm not mistaken.
It's worth noting that the French government is adopting Matrix for its internal communications infrastructure.
I don't think a discord is a good idea. It'll create cliques of people who use discord and then the people who don't will get left out, and when the sites userbase is this small that would significantly fracture the culture.
Adding to this guy's comment: I think unless you're a big enough community, having a Discord chat could be a bad idea and as Pbuddy says, it can detract from the actual forum itself. Plus some people prefer the structure of a forum like this to an IM chat and there are certainly users such as myself who find it difficult to jump into an IM group chat. If there's not enough people on the forum, then the users that don't like IM won't stick around for very long and it'll kill the community.