Darkcity Discord

So I've been seeing more and more discord servers appearing in various communities on reddit and gaming groups and thought it might be something to recommend to the admins here to consider. Its a pretty good app with both voice and text chat so I'd recommend it if admins were looking to expand on/change the chat feature on the website. Just an idea.

Personally, I am somewhat social media challenged , but thank you very much for the suggestion, Vindicavi, and we will definitely look into it.

Cheers.

What's a discord server?

It's basically a voice over IP chat room where you can talk to other people with a microphone instead of typing.

Potential for an evil laugh competition????

Ahh how the world moves forward! Damn I am getting old!

Def up for an evil laugh comp......mwahahahaha!!!!

You can both type and use a microphone. Can set up different chats and mic rooms for various discussions within a server too. Been using it alot with a gaming group and its been pretty useful, thought it would be worth sharing, as I always have trouble with the chat here for some reason.

Sounds really good. Will def look into this for the forum

Any status on this at all?

Having a discord channel would be a great opportunity for this forum I think. Granted at the cost of having something else to manage for the moderators. It'd be much better than the chatbox I think, and be a great place for instant advice, questions, clarifications, and other discussions.

Bear in mind as well that discord isn't all just VOIP (voice chat), it's namely a chat program as well, where you can create separate channels and the like for different topics.

Personally I think this would be a great idea, and I really hope we do set one up. If Adhemar or anyone needs help with it, I don't mind assisting.

Must confess I know nothing about this sort of thing. If anyone can PM me some details on what it is, what it does and how it would be integrated into the forum I will take it up with the other moderators.

Slack would be a good alternative.
Free for unlimited users, only costs if you want extra features.

https://slack.com/get-started

Why would you need a free alternative to something that is already free to begin with?

The limit for a discord server is 1000 people online at the same time which is more than enough.

In case someone thinks about it, I will write Count Adhemar a bit about discord.

edit: Actually, there is no limit for a discord server, it's 1k people per voice channel max.

Hey, I think that's a great idea! I use Discord regularly, and would happily join another community on there

I went ahead and made one, I'll transfer the controls once a mod joins.



Download discord, https://discordapp.com/apps

make an account, then click the link

Here's the 24 hour link: https://discord.gg/XrsEwj

while discord is open and you should be able to join. Click on a voice channel to join the channel, it'll work if your avatar shows up under the chat list.

Also I made the server based in London, if that's all right with y'all.

P.S. PM me if you need help setting it up or anything.

Here's the new 24 hour link:https://discord.gg/CXVqCT

We're at 4 members already!

Make that 5!

You can make permanent links to join if you want. Totally joined up (Yraen/Taco is my discord name due to various mmo's)

https://youtu.be/p0FtA3nGLPI

I have a Chromebook and just recently got Linux on it, haven't figured out how to download Discord there yet, so I've been using my phone. Phone settings are greatly restricted . Do you have access to the perma link? If you could post that here that would be lovely.

Edit: https://discord.gg/pvNtaSq this link should be permanent.

Cmon guys! Lets spread some Discord!

aurynn wrote:

Cmon guys! Lets spread some Discord!

Eyyyyyyy

Just a reminder that this still exists if more people want to join, especially a mod, I'd love to hand over controls.

I joined the one that Arani set up. Not heard anything back from most of the other mods but my main issue is whether it can be embedded on the website or not. If it can then I think it's a useful addition. If not then there's a risk of drawing traffic away from the site.

https://blog.discordapp.com/add-the-discord-widget-to-your-site-d45ffcd718c6 From what i can read it should be possible.

Excellent find Keast.

And aww shoot. Arani already set one up? Didn't realize that. If you'd be kind enough to share the link, we got 9 more people that would love to join the channel. Or y'all could come join our party

Indeed! We can easily jump over