Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27980194-20170224234227

For a while now we had a link on our homepage to a discord server. Now there's a number of reasons to want to integrate to a new server, let's try and go over them.

One: It would be easier for cross-mod communication.

Sometimes it's necessary for a discussion to be confidential between mods. The ability to create channels explicitly for cross-mod communication, would make it way easier for higher ups to debate on issues and other things, given the restrictions of the wiki would be gone.

Two: Easier for serious conversation and proposals.

The ability to seperate channels is pretty huge. We have had ideas and even some proposals in the wiki-chat. The issue is, with all else that is going on in there during prime hours, it can admittedly be pretty difficult for all of this to happen. With discord, we can seperate serious wiki discussion from the usual sort of chat.

Three: More convenient.

While you can access normal chat from mobile, it's admittedly pretty poor, with it being awkward and clunky to use. Discord on mobile is so much smoother to use than wiki-chat on mobile, there's not really much doubt about that.

While we're on the topic of wiki-chat, this is not meant to REPLACE wiki-chat, but rather provide an alternative. I love wiki chat, the nostalgia factor is real, and I have no intentions of making it go away.

Four: Better identity.

Regardless of what you think about the current discord server (honestly it has a lot of problems, but that's a debate for another thread), it honestly doesn't really fit the identity of the Gumball Wiki discord server. It doesn't really represent our community or our interests very well, therefore I think we're better off seperating from it.

Q & A

Q. How would it work?

A. Very similar to how our current chat works. We would hold similar standards for chat, and practically use the same ruleset for the discord server. Granted, we would likely have to add some new rules as Discord is a pretty different platform and we would need to account for that, no doubt.

Staff would be the same. People with rights to chat ban would be moderators on the new discord server. Administrators and Buros would have Administrator rights on the discord server.

If I recall, there's also some sort of discord integrator program that we can now make use of, should we put this server into place.

Q. What about the old server?

A.  Not sure what we can really do about it, I'd imagine it would find some way to bounce back. While doing this may be cruel, honestly I find this seperation to be necessary.

Q. What if the Wiki-Chat dies?

A. Honestly this feels like such an unlikely outcome that I feel it's hardly even worth discussing. The thesis is, given both chats would be an option, the only time the chat would actually die, is if we let it die.

That's about all I can think of, If you have more Questions I'll try and answer them. Until then, what do you think about this notion? Would you use this server? Feel free to use the support, neutral, and oppose template if you wish. 