I’m sure a lot of us didn’t use it much because it was overwhelming and difficult to follow sometimes, but I know that lots of people loved it, and I’m one of them.
Just feeling reflective and thinking about what lessons can be learned from the whole experience, what we can use going forwards for the betterment of our community, and what we think are things we want to build towards.
I’m so utterly proud of this community, many wonderful things happened on the discord and in the weeks after the sub was banned, so many people came together and worked hard for the betterment of their comrades, we’ve witnessed a glimpse of the power of our solidarity with one another, and I can’t wait to see how far we can go.
I love you all, and you know I mean it <3
It moved too fast for me personally. I stuck to lurking a handful of channels (opsec, veganism, debate-veganism, and everything in the server deets section) because otherwise I couldn’t keep up fully with conversations that were taking place. I barely posted at all on reddit too so it’s not much different for me I guess.
I think things like discord/matrix are better used for asking/answering simple questions like ‘Does anybody have any movie recommendations in x genre?’ and less good for longer/more complex discussions that require full paragraphs of text to get ideas across. I liked the megathreads on the sub because you could see a ton of different conversations happening in the same space which just isn’t possible to do in a discord chat channel.
It was better than nothing though. I hadn’t realized how much of my time on reddit was spent on cth and how shitty the rest of reddit was until I was kind of forced to go without.
I agree with you, better than nothing but not the best for proper discussion.
It was also really hard to follow multiple different conversational threads across more than a few a hours, so most of the time you’d start a discussion and it’d go nowhere.
I generally didn’t even try to follow conversations as they happened. Just check in on a channel whenever I got bored and scroll through the 200+ messages til I caught up, but yeah it sounds impossible to stay on top of more than one conversation.
I’m just happy we’re here now.
Random thoughts:
Never entering a megathread is the only way to use Discord. Extremely online cliques are poison and should have been scattered to the winds at inception rather than being given the megaphone for endless votes of no-confidence. #mod-feedback was a masterclass in tantrum politics and demonstrated the weakness of “the online vanguard” to shitty people who will not shut the fuck up. There were some good memes, I guess, but the format lends itself to cliquishness and personality cults. Whinging about “transparency” but not proposing or helping to create tools to make such transparency easier to realize is wrecker shit. Approximately 1% of users fundamentally do not understand that “discomfort” does not immediately make “conflict” nor make a place “unsafe”. 90% of drama could have been defused with a 30 minute mute and a temporary struggle sesh channel to be nuked upon resolution. Abusing unpaid volunteer mods is fucked up. Sectarian distrust and assumptions of bad faith no matter how transparently innocuous the interaction was very offputting. People taking themselves seriously on gray gamer site should be derided; internet is not real.
chat rooms, especially busy ones, are just not my cup of tea
it feels like you are expected to speak up in an active conversation, some people flourish in that environment, for some people it’s a barrier
the threaded forum style of reddit is much more my cup of tea, but a barrier for some people for different reasons
I feel like you need both available to meet everyone’s need
yeah i definetly agree with this, i am sure all the people are tired from launching this fast but at some point maybe we can get a live chat like reddit here for discord lovers too.
matrix integration is definitely on the cards although it’s not a top priority at the moment.
Fucking great - Unite the tribes - the chat format isn’t for me and fuck discord’s corporate policies but matrix integration would be cool for whoever wants chat.
Have chapo.chat like a twitch page with the chat box on the right, except instead of video just the chapo forums on the left. Best of both worlds on one page.
It’s so hard to follow along a Discord. I hate it. The news and electoralism bit was nice though
I just can’t fucking do it, even if i sat down for like 30 mins and started chatting, I just can’t keep up. Coming back online and being completely out a a conversation that feels like it’s been going for an hour and you don’t want to butt in was also a hard feeling to get over.
ikd adhd gang couldn’t deal other than opening discord on my phone on the shitter and posting “cum” in the fast megathread 3 times daily
God I love the discord. It was overwhelming, a ceaseless attention-grab, and I truly love it. I found a part of myself there; it turned me, for the first time in my 10+ years as an internet lurker, into a poster. And now… here I am .
I’m really loving chapo.chat though, already. The slower pace allows for a lot more depth and nuance. But also, I feel that the autorefresh system makes for more back-and-forth engagements in threads, which is really nice too.
What I’m getting at is that I love this community, and all the ways we’ve found to come together :heart-sickle:
HELL YEAH! That’s fucking awesome comrade!
It really does feel like we’re home now, whatever that actually means :)
Same here, I think I posted maybe one or two comments back in the subreddit, but Discord turned me a bit too. Certainly helps that the emotes make shitposting way easier and more fun, glad those have been brought over
:og-hex-bear: :john-brown: :heart-sickle: :stalin-shining: :AyyyyyOC: :PIGPOOPBALLS:
