Shipbucket

I was thinking of creating a Discord for the forums so that we could have a much more well-known and accessible platform for discussion and sharing projects. It's a pretty user-friendly program with lots of ways to easily customize servers, including role customization and bots that provide additional functionality like unit conversion and Wolfram Alpha access in-client.

Anybody else on-board?

is this not what we have our IRC chat for?

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Yes, but it's a bit outdated and not very user-friendly IMO. Discord has a lot more functionality and is overall easier to use.

This is very true.

Discord also has chat history, allows uploading of files up to 8mb directly into a chat, and massive customisability in terms of channels (voice and text), roles for members, notifications etc.

It has applications for computers, mobiles and can be just in a browser.

It's also all free to both use, and set up servers on. No ads either. The only way they get money is with paid premium profiles that give you gif avatars, 50mb uploads and the ability to use custom emotes on every server you are in even if the admin/s on that server haven't added them.

I had asked Comrade Doggo to post this thread. Most of us have always used IRC so we don't really think of it as being "outdated", but I would definitely agree that Discord is a bit more user-friendly. The real question is "would anyone use it?" Based on the historically low turnout on the IRC, I'm not sure it would really provide much more value, and that's not because IRC isn't user-friendly but rather because Shipbucket isn't the type of community that gravitates towards chat rooms.

You are free to create it and I will probably join the channel whenever I can, but I won't promise that it will become a replacement for the long-standing Shipbucket IRC channel or that it will ever get more than a few users.

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I went ahead and created the channel here: https://discord.gg/5PHq8Dk

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