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Interest in Discord?

🕑 Added 2022-05-04 18:37:35 +0000 UTC

Comments

Lord of Nightmares

As someone who runs 2 servers and is a member of many, many more I suggest you take a moment to consider if you have the capacity to update and participate in a Discord often. Its a bit of a burden but if you don't keep the place lively it will just go into someones "junk discord" folder and get checked once in a blue-moon verse remaining in their actively monitored area. Also, as other have said you need to make sure you correctly set-up role and permissions from Day 1 or you will get spammy idiots so its a good idea to see how other Discord groups are set-up. But on a related note don't get suckered into thinking you need to add a Bot with fancy role-assigning functions, not every discord needs that. With all that said. Discord is fun. Go ahead, you can always shut it down if it doesn't work out.

Ben

Personally, I'm here for the art more than the community. But I'm not opposed to community.

Garth Graham

I don't think joining someone else's server would be conducive to the kind of community engagement I imagine Discord to be useful for.

Garth Graham

I totally understand your concern, but I would never abandon posting here to Patreon baring some sort of policy change that would make posting here problematic. I'm honestly looking at this not as a "new place to post content" but as a "place to build community."

Robert

My personal experience is that there are, like, 3 Discord servers that I can actually keep up with in any meaningful sense of the word. I love the number (and quality!) of notifications from this Patreon. My concern is that creators (reasonably!) want to try to minimize the number of places they need to post announcements and such, so they move everything to Discord and neglect those who can't keep up with yet another server (or don't set up permission on the server right, and everybody can @-mention everybody, so their own announcements can't make it above the noise floor). So, if you go Discord, please remember we curmudgeonly little people who are social-media-ed out and like or old-fashioned email notifications.