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Should we move the chatroom to Discord?
Yes 24 (92.3%)
No 2 (7.7%)
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Total Votes: 26
POLL: Moving to Discord?
Topic Started: Jul 5 2017, 03:07 PM (650 Views)
FirebreathFishslap
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I'm the best! I'm the king of me! I'm gonna eat chips out of the garbage!

A lot of people have been expressing interest us setting up a proper Persona Rebirth Discord as a replacement for the current IRC set up. For those not familiar, Discord is a program similar to Skype and Teamspeak, and can be accessed both through a browser and through a separate program. This'd be a pretty major change for how we've been doing the chatroom so far, and has some pretty big pros and cons!

Pros:
- Discord has a reliable mobile app, so it can be accessed on the go a lot more easily than the IRC can be.
- Chatlogs. Just... having access to chatlogs.
- Just as a staffside thing, permissions are just so much easier to set up in Discord than they are on IRC.
- We can set up voice channels, in case people want to do voice calls and just chill! This is something we used to do on Sup's old Skype groups, but haven't really done in a while.
- Permanent text channels. We can already make separate chatrooms for when people need to talk about specific things in IRC, but these rooms aren't permanent, and disappear once everyone leaves the channel.

Cons:
- Discord isn't as easy for newbies to just hop into when they're just joining the site as IRC is. We currently have an IRC widget set up on the site for people to hop into when they're starting off, but with Discord, it would have to be a join link, and they'd have to make a basic account for it.
- Discord's server stability can be... unreliable. It goes down a lot more often than Esper does, and it does funky shit when it is down. It's a pretty new, pretty unreliable program.
- It's waaay less easy to pull people aside into a big group chat in Discord if it's needed than it is on IRC. Considering how often we've done that on IRC, that might be an issue looking into the future.
- Discord bans don't work the same way as IRC bans, and I don't believe it's possible to IP ban someone from the Discord. Correct me if I'm wrong!

If anyone has any thoughts, please reply with them!
Edited by FirebreathFishslap, Jul 5 2017, 03:23 PM.
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Supnitle
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Hey so a few thoughts:

-I believe you can just set up a perma-link to invite to a discord, and people can just enter a username and join in the chat without making an account proper. They can always make an account later.
-I believe discord IP bans by default? At least google told me so
-You can make PM groups for setting people aside, and also just like, having access to other forum people on discord to direct message whenever is a lot more convenient than sending them PMs or waiting for them to show up in IRC
-Discord's like reasonably popular already so a lot of new people are just going to have it already
-Cute emojis n shit
-I voted for discord can you tell
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Reach
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[uncomfortable whimpering]
Gosh, absolutely. IRC on mobile is such a hassle, personally, and being able to connect on Discord is super convenient when I (and a lot of others) already have a lot of contacts there.
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asano_man
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Thinkin bout abs
The only reason I never go into the main chat is because irc is really annoying on the phone, which for some reason is the main way I interact with this site, so I'm totally down for switching.
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GKG
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when ur team wipes but ur ult is at 15%
You get to have meme avatars in chat. NOW WE SWITCH
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Nonsequitur
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Yellow Bubblegum
More meme avatars? I switch my vote to 'no' then
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Supnitle
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Monika Apologist

close race huh
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FirebreathFishslap
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I'm the best! I'm the king of me! I'm gonna eat chips out of the garbage!

So the poll results have been.... pretty clear :V

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The Mibbit server will be left up over the next week (assuming people are in the chat long enough to keep the channel alive), but for those who want to go ahead and make the transition over to Discord, here's the link!

https://discord.gg/YJHhjJb
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ZXAlpha
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I don't know about this 'Discord', seems fishy to me. 🤔
Edited by ZXAlpha, Feb 12 2018, 09:31 PM.
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