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chocolateshake:
The issue I see with this is that it splits the forum. There will be people that never use discord. At best, now we have to monitor two sites. This was a problem during the last comic-con. I never looked at discord. Some posts made on this site weren't seen until later. I don't understand why making and reading posts on this website is so slow that we need discord. Messages show up instantly. It's quite common to have a real time dialog using posts.
May I suggest that instead of disposing of the chatbox, that it be re-implemented using discord as it's back end. It's possible to embed a discord discussion onto a page. That way, this site can still be the common place for all friends to meet.
alyssa:
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Register or LoginThe issue I see with this is that it splits the forum. There will be people that never use discord. At best, now we have to monitor two sites. This was a problem during the last comic-con. I never looked at discord. Some posts made on this site weren't seen until later. I don't understand why making and reading posts on this website is so slow that we need discord. Messages show up instantly. It's quite common to have a real time dialog using posts.
May I suggest that instead of disposing of the chatbox, that it be re-implemented using discord as it's back end. It's possible to embed a discord discussion onto a page. That way, this site can still be the common place for all friends to meet.
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Interesting idea [member=6586]chocolateshake[/member]
there are folks working on integration of discord and SMF You are not allowed to view links.
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[member=3710]SteveD[/member] [member=13]Car_Low[/member] ....thoughts ?
Car_Low:
Problem I had with the forum is you can't curate notifications to only be on just the announcement of something you have to get it for all the messages. With the role tags if you only want Conan updates on discord someone can just type "@Conan tickets are up for CocoHouse" and you will only get the notification for that instead of the hundreds of comments on the thread saying "I wonder when the tickets will drop I think it probably will be on X". Its more for time sensitive things rather than long term discussion. Many times by the time its posted on discord its gone within a minute or two so you have to have that instant role tag notification so it doesnt get lost in the shuffle of other things. Also, I found that the discord was a lot more active when on site during con. I found that during the actual con the forum would be a ghost town there would only be a few posts here and there that come in at the end of the day after stuff had happened where as the discord had people posting right away when they found things with the role tags. You don't have to monitor discord like you would the forum just have the right roles selected and mobile notifications on and you can set it and forget it until something important comes up.
alyssa:
i've long wanted an integration of a chat feature and the forum.
I'm not sure the package from smfhack will further that goal or not
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Register or LoginSo is this platform going away?
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no!
the forum is the easiest way of dealing with big goals- like planing for hotels, badge sales. Discord is the easiest way of communicating while at con. Tapatalk is too cumbersom, the old chatbox it too generic as [member=13]Car_Low[/member] said
chocolateshake:
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Register or LoginI found that during the actual con the forum would be a ghost town there would only be a few posts here and there that come in at the end of the day after stuff had happened where as the discord had people posting right away when they found things with the role tags.
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That's the split I described earlier. During the last comic-con there were the discord people and the non-discord people. Effectively, discord became just another comic-con forum separate from this forum. This year there was definitely a noticeable loss of activity during comic-con on this forum because of that.
Discord by it's design, requires an account. You just can't browse it without one, even if it's a temporary account. It's effectively private. The majority of people that visit friends don't have accounts or don't log in. Right now there are 58 guests and only 8 people logged in. Those guests won't transfer over to discord. The lack of activity here because it's happening on discord leads to less content here. During this last comic-con, I had to look elsewhere to see what was going on.
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