Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27980194-20170224234227/@comment-4423426-20170226203314

I was on the fence about this at first too. My reasoning though is a little different. The thing with that Discord server, is I noticed once it was made all the users from there flocked to this Wiki, so I sometimes worried that it'd end up replacing our chat, as a lot of the old users were leaving at the time. First of all, the Discord that Stick operates is not an official Wiki one and has never really claimed to be. It was a result of Destiny finding out that Discord seemed like a better alternative to Skype, because we'd have Skype sessions a lot and we'd have a Skype group, which functioned much like  our Discord server did now. It's more of a community one. The other Discord-- the one from Reddit has always felt like a Gumball one first and foremost, and why shouldn't it be? It was officially endorsed on the reddit at one time. It's like a seperate entity. It always seemed like I shouldn't be on it because it was Gumball related, and I wasn't as into the show any more, and I also barely knew the people there before they started joining the chatroom. I fully get what Noah means. Whatever problems happened with the Discord, I admittedly don't know about other than it got hostile, and a lot of users left as a result. If you remember me saying years ago, my first online chatroom experience was actually a lot called Soniczone, but I could never truly feel a part of it, and eventually sometime in 2015, their chatroom started slowing down, so they made a Discord that I'm still on to this day, though I barely use it or know what to say. This would be the equivalent of that-- just making a community one for this Wiki itself, and the fact that Mod/Admin positions will remain the same as on this Wiki is very promising. When Noah first brought this up on the chatroom, I worried that it would cause our current one to be neglected,  but I don't mind taking that risk any more. I know that the Sonic Wiki that Otis and Destiny go on, eventually has its chat prompt members to go onto their Discord server. The changes will happen slowly. I don't think that the Discord group will replace chat overnight, but even if it does--if we adjust to it enough, then it may not be so bad.