[Un]Official TBT Discord?

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There's currently an unofficial discord group at the moment :)

I think people would prefer one moderated by TBT staff instead of some random forum users. I would be less inclined to go on user run ones (if I don't know the people) simply because of friend groups and the favouritism that comes with that. That and I don't want to talk about ACNL 24/7, or ever really. haha
 
I think people would prefer one moderated by TBT staff instead of some random forum users. I would be less inclined to go on user run ones (if I don't know the people) simply because of friend groups and the favouritism that comes with that. That and I don't want to talk about ACNL 24/7, or ever really. haha

we barely have animal crossing discussion at all. ask anyone, its unbiased. discord has multiple different channels, and the server currently run by Enzo has many members from tbt and has channels for off topic, on topic (animal crossing discussion), etc. the mods are mature and old enough that there is no favoritism, and any chat group that gets started is going to bring together friend groups. sorry bud- its inevitable :p but if you ask anyone its not hard to fit in. everyones superbly nice and its really an amazing place to meet friends :)
 
we barely have animal crossing discussion at all. ask anyone, its unbiased. discord has multiple different channels, and the server currently run by Enzo has many members from tbt and has channels for off topic, on topic (animal crossing discussion), etc. the mods are mature and old enough that there is no favoritism, and any chat group that gets started is going to bring together friend groups. sorry bud- its inevitable :p but if you ask anyone its not hard to fit in. everyones superbly nice and its really an amazing place to meet friends :)

I prefer my cellar friends.

Not trying to argue with you, but I would still never join a "TBT Discord" that was not run by staff. I'm obviously not alone considering this thread exists. I'm not saying you should take your discord down or anything, I don't really care about it because I don't use it. I would just really like to see a TBT discord that was official and a replacement for the now dead IRC, so I think it's a great idea and hope Justin can implement it.

Also there's always favouritism, everywhere (even unintentional). It's human nature.
 
I prefer my cellar friends.

Not trying to argue with you, but I would still never join a "TBT Discord" that was not run by staff. I'm obviously not alone considering this thread exists. I'm not saying you should take your discord down or anything, I don't really care about it because I don't use it. I would just really like to see a TBT discord that was official and a replacement for the now dead IRC, so I think it's a great idea and hope Justin can implement it.

Also there's always favouritism, everywhere (even unintentional). It's human nature.

wasn't arguing and I respect your opinion, it'd be cool. i'm just saying, not everyone fits in with your "cellar friends" and thats exactly what you just said you were trying to ignore, friend groups and favoritism lol. but its cool! i get where you're coming from
 
are there any cons to it that made you guys reconsider/hold it off?

Well, we were originally thinking about using it as a Mumble or voice chat, not really in the context of IRC or text chat. Looking at it as just voice chat, it seemed like it'd probably end up being a waste of time that wouldn't take off. But looking at it more recently as like IRC, I could see it being pretty active if it gets off to a good start.

In terms of downsides, I'm (Jeremy as well) naturally never a fan of things off-site if we can avoid it. While IRC is still technically on another server, it's so old that we know it's never going to disappear and we are also able to embed a chat right into the site directly. As far as I know, Discord doesn't have any proper embed option for the actual chat beyond a small widget to join, meaning that we have to send users off to a completely external site for the chat. Arguably, that's actually less user-friendly than IRC. Discord is also a fairly new service that appears to be solely run off investment right now without any real business plan in action, so I have my doubts as to its longevity. I'm not sure we really have the moderator capacity right now at this moment for a very active chat either. To be frank, moderating IRC when it was active back in the day could be a real pain in the butt sometimes. :p

Also in regards to other existing servers, I've been aware of a few although not quite sure how large they are. Regardless, people are of course always free to have their own groups. An official one would be more for the purpose of what IRC was once upon a time -- a general open chat for everyone.
 
Well, we were originally thinking about using it as a Mumble or voice chat, not really in the context of IRC or text chat. Looking at it as just voice chat, it seemed like it'd probably end up being a waste of time that wouldn't take off. But looking at it more recently as like IRC, I could see it being pretty active if it gets off to a good start.

In terms of downsides, I'm (Jeremy as well) naturally never a fan of things off-site if we can avoid it. While IRC is still technically on another server, it's so old that we know it's never going to disappear and we are also able to embed a chat right into the site directly. As far as I know, Discord doesn't have any proper embed option for the actual chat beyond a small widget to join, meaning that we have to send users off to a completely external site for the chat. Arguably, that's actually less user-friendly than IRC. Discord is also a fairly new service that appears to be solely run off investment right now without any real business plan in action, so I have my doubts as to its longevity. I'm not sure we really have the moderator capacity right now at this moment for a very active chat either. To be frank, moderating IRC when it was active back in the day could be a real pain in the butt sometimes. :p

Also in regards to other existing servers, I've been aware of a few although not quite sure how large they are. Regardless, people are of course always free to have their own groups. An official one would be more for the purpose of what IRC was once upon a time -- a general open chat for everyone.

but irc never works for me
if i use it on mobile, the sign in doesn't even pop up, its just a white box
on my computer, i sign in or whatever, it says "connecting to chat" or something, and takes me back to the sign in..

I'm interested in joining a chat though! I remember awhile back the TBT user melanie martinez made a TBT chatzy here, however it hasn't been active at all..
 
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You guys should join the Soda Pop+ Discord! There's chat there all the time, and several channels of different topics to talk in, both for voice and text chat.
We're suggesting for an official discord for TBT. The thing is, the mods of the channel are most likely a small friend group who have power and dictation over everything that happens and most would much rather the staff of TBT to run it if it were to be official.
 
Definitely support it. A lot of users have trouble running IRC(though really, it's not that hard at all) and the Bell Tree server/channels are pretty inactive. Discord is a similar platform a lot of people use.

One thing that's gonna cause problems is the invitations to the server. Invite links are only valid for 24 hours and the mods will have to update them every day. That, or personally inviting every user by the mods is practically impossible.
 
Definitely support it. A lot of users have trouble running IRC(though really, it's not that hard at all) and the Bell Tree server/channels are pretty inactive. Discord is a similar platform a lot of people use.

One thing that's gonna cause problems is the invitations to the server. Invite links are only valid for 24 hours and the mods will have to update them every day. That, or personally inviting every user by the mods is practically impossible.

I believe there's an option for permanent invite links actually. I'm assuming the widget essentially acts as one anyway.

EDIT: god dammit karla
 
I think moving to Discord would be good, considering that the IRC is dead. I honestly don't see too many problems with it either, so it should be fine for use and all.
 
We're suggesting for an official discord for TBT. The thing is, the mods of the channel are most likely a small friend group who have power and dictation over everything that happens and most would much rather the staff of TBT to run it if it were to be official.

Hello! I run the aforementioned Discord server and I wanted to clear up any misconceptions about it. :)
Everyone in the server started off as strangers with myself as the only mod. I picked out the mods based on a variety of factors, definitely not who I liked the most (otherwise we'd have lots of mods!) Obviously, the mods and I have become good friends over time, but I treat them no different than I treat the rest of our server members and they're subject to the same rules as everyone else. It's the same as would happen to any group of mods on anything, basically.

I know it sounds intimidating, feeling like you'd be walking into a closed circle of friends, but I promise everyone in the server is very welcoming and I'm very happy to have met everyone there. :)
I care a lot about everyone in our server, and I hope you at least give us a chance. :D
 
I'm not trying discredit you or your group, the point of my post would to have a officially made/sponsored one by the people who run this site. Also things like kicks and bans come up, for example I was taken out of a line chat for not talking. I think a site run chat would be better, as bans and that type of that stuff would be private and not public. If this doesn't make sense I'm sorry it sounded much better in my head.
 
I'm not trying discredit you or your group, the point of my post would to have a officially made/sponsored one by the people who run this site. Also things like kicks and bans come up, for example I was taken out of a line chat for not talking. I think a site run chat would be better, as bans and that type of that stuff would be private and not public. If this doesn't make sense I'm sorry it sounded much better in my head.

This is spot on what I was trying to say earlier. Nail on the head Crys. That is why official ones would be better.
 
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