Having an official Discord Server owned by Glitch and maintained by the community would be great; if someone has a programming/glitch/etc question they can get real time help from anybody there. Becoming a Partner with Discord would also allow a custom invite link, like discord.gg/glitch
I’d like to bring attention back to this. A Discord server would not only promote community interactions, it would allow developers to more easily collaborate and find people with similar interests. I’m not saying that staff have to join the server, nor do they have to manage the server if they join. I think that with the help of active Glitch community members, the server would do well.
right now we’re putting all of our resources into creating a solid system for supporting the community – that’s through handling requests on and off the forum, creating documentation and guides to help everyone find and build the apps of their dreams, and lots of other great stuff in the works to help y’all succeed!
so while i can’t say we would never have an official place to real-time chat for the community in the future, we don’t have plans on creating and managing one in the near future. we’d have to make sure we set it up so it’s welcoming and friendly and safe for everyone, which is an important investment that will take us some time to make.
or vanity urls(custom links that aren’t random). I had a fun time trying out random urls to see where they led in the spam section of a server. Extremely safe is a sort of incorrect, it kind of depends on how you’ve set your security settings and how well server admins moderate the server.
I deleted the account. and @javaarchive, I’m not using just one egg. On Discord, majority of the people were very mean. You had a few nice people there. But on Glitch, people are nicer. They seem to behave properly, honestly. I mean, no one here on glitch has been mean to kaito, but they have been mean to him on discord.
uh those eggs have more yolk in them, and through the millions of people who use discord, of course you’ll find someone that is rude to you, over the few people that are active on this Discourse forum, which is civilized discussion. It says so on the front page.
1 in 7.5 trillion may not be the right odds, but I also wouldn’t count on this happening anytime soon. Due to the nature of fast conversations and many channels in Discord, we’d need a lot more resources to help out and moderate, and we’re simply not at that level yet!
Before this gets out of hand, I’d like to say that the 1 in 7.5 trillion statisitics things was just a joke reference to something that happened recently in the gaming community, sorry about the misunderstanding!
Yeah you’re right, the user interface of discord makes you want to type out messages pretty fast while in discourse we take time to look over our messages a bit more and feel obliged to check for punctuation/grammar/spelling errors making it feel more civilized. The size of a discourse post might also make people want to include a lot of descriptive information in a single post while Some users might seem to blurt out by sending multiple message in quick succession making it feel like they are talking fast but they actually just haven’t figured out that shift+enter creates a new line without sending a message. Most discord messages are sentences or short paragraphs (yes, I left out memes and all the ways to display content) so users are obliged to do the same.
Another reason I prefer Discourse over Discord for Glitch community help is because search engines can crawl these pages in the forum and direct users looking for help by Googling, for example. If most of the conversations and support move to Discord, most of the knowledge becomes ephemeral and hard to find. I find catching up on threads and searching for info on Discord to be really hard. This is why communities like Next and Ghost had moved off of Slack and onto forums like Discourse and Github Community discussions.
I think it makes sense to bump feature ideas - otherwise, there will be loads of feature requests for the same thing, and people can’t comment on why they think it’s a good idea.