Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

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Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby MattWithoos » Wed May 10, 2017 1:21 am

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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby MonkeyPants4736 » Wed May 10, 2017 1:50 am

April 20th is probably a fair date to consider the start of the Discord chats, since that is likely when most people had time to learn about it and because such a large number of players at least logged in to the discord channels that day.

You would need to wait until, say, 35 days have passed and maybe figure out a way to easily take forum posts counts for the last 30 sets of 35 days. Toss that on whatever sort of trend line you like to use. That should answer the question.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby Millhouse » Wed May 10, 2017 2:15 am

I haven't tried discord so I dunno. I thought we just had a lull in the forum. Those things happen.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby Wolfsong » Wed May 10, 2017 2:57 am

It's amusing that a game that prides itself on being slow paced prefers a fast paced OOC chatroom instead of slower forums.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby Millhouse » Wed May 10, 2017 3:23 am

It's voice chat, right? Like Skype for groups?
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby the_antisocial_hermit » Wed May 10, 2017 4:34 am

I completely forgot about Discord being announced. The forum lulls are so common nowadays that it didn't cross my mind. Not likely to use it, just as I have abstained from IRC this time around. :P Now I have "Video Killed the Radio Star" stuck in my head.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby MattWithoos » Wed May 10, 2017 5:28 am

Guys, get on Discord! :shock: :shock: :lol:

It's like IRC, except with a better interface, and you can actually see the chat logs (so you don't miss out on a conversation if you have to leave / go to work / etc).

There's literally hundreds of players in there now!

https://discord.gg/8EamRse

You can regularly chat with staff, including GreeK, Pies and Czez, at least more so than here. And they're wonderful to talk with.

edit: Just as an example, right now, there's 12 people online, and if you want to chat with someone you can just @tag them - and assuming they've got the mobile version, they'll likely appear straight away. It's awesome!
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby sherman » Wed May 10, 2017 7:47 am

I don't think it killed forums, forums have always been quite quiet and beside, it seems people favor easy to use than say forums
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby the_antisocial_hermit » Wed May 10, 2017 1:25 pm

Not always quiet..
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby witia1 » Wed May 10, 2017 1:37 pm

I think it's kiling mostly not directly game related topics. Like forum games or non game discussion in general.

Real time discussion creates way for better thoughts exchange so also "ideas forum" might suffer a bit but in other hand not so many people where active in this forum, so maybe now it will be more popular on discord.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby nateflory » Wed May 10, 2017 1:53 pm

I don't Discord. it doesn't seem to work on my laptop, and I don't have one of them there Fancy SmartFone gadgets.... *he says in his best old man voice* So, hoping I'm not missing much there. :P
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby Millhouse » Wed May 10, 2017 3:23 pm

Yeah, as long as the forum is still a reliable way to report bugs, make suggestions and just have general discussion I don't see it dying off over what's basically "improved irc". At least I hope not. Judging by the number of replies to this thread so far, I'd say it's just a lull. There's just no active discussions happening and nobody has started or revived a topic in a while.

For me personally, I avoid things like irc because 99% of my non-work related online activities are done over my smart phone, and I don't really need another reason to stare at my phone's screen. That's probably just me. Maybe I'm missing out on something but I'm ok with that.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby SekoETC » Wed May 10, 2017 5:11 pm

I assumed Discord would be as dead as Cantr irc channel, so I didn't bother checking it out. I don't believe there would be 100 players there.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby Joshuamonkey » Wed May 10, 2017 5:36 pm

The fact that you don't have to have it open constantly to see previous messages or be spoken to (and the nice app, with notifications) I think is what makes Discord more effective and popular than IRC, and also why we decided to try it in the first place. I like IRC, but I'm a computer nerd. I'm not sure it appeals to everyone these days.
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Re: Did Discord kill the forum? How do you feel about that?

Postby Rmak » Wed May 10, 2017 7:59 pm

"kill" would indicate that the forum was alive to begin with

SekoETC wrote:I assumed Discord would be as dead as Cantr irc channel, so I didn't bother checking it out. I don't believe there would be 100 players there.


followed by 12 people......

I think its also a telling sign of the game status and environment when staff won't converse with people on its own forum.
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