On Discord.
Discord is more the IRC / Skype / other real time discussion group killer. It's really good for what it does. Â
It's key benefits are it's stupid-simple to set up, easy to use, easy to get other people into it, and it removes the need for paying for voice server for most groups. It's also very likely that someone you want on your discord server is already on discord for something else so there's no "yet another product" problem.
It is lacking in quite a number of ways and a large scale community tool, however.
It lacks permanence. Â
It's a pain to export content to a more permanent medium from.Â
Discussions are mostly exclusive to who's on at the moment and are mostly limited to one per channel at a time.
Event tracking. You need at least two third party tools to do this (a calendar and a relay bot)
User tracking. (All you get, user ID and the name#1234 tag one of those requires a bot to acquire.)
For most small groups this isn't much of a problem. You don't need to worry about permanence, and they're mostly TZ centric.
The biggest advantage to a forum like the RPC is the permanence feature and the easy of copying your stuff to a different medium.
That permanence allows people to participate in more of the discussions that happen off hour for them or even earlier in the week. Â
On Discord (or IRC/Slack), said interesting topic has already been scrolled past and four or five other discussions may have happened since you were last online. With discord in trafficked channels "necroposting" becomes a matter of hours instead of months on heavily trafficked discord channels.
That permanence thing also allows forum RP to happen between people that may not be around at the moment. (read: RP by mail)
Anyway, TL;DR side of things, discord is nifty, but it's not a full solution to what a decent community needs, in my opinion.
Discord is more the IRC / Skype / other real time discussion group killer. It's really good for what it does. Â
It's key benefits are it's stupid-simple to set up, easy to use, easy to get other people into it, and it removes the need for paying for voice server for most groups. It's also very likely that someone you want on your discord server is already on discord for something else so there's no "yet another product" problem.
It is lacking in quite a number of ways and a large scale community tool, however.
It lacks permanence. Â
It's a pain to export content to a more permanent medium from.Â
Discussions are mostly exclusive to who's on at the moment and are mostly limited to one per channel at a time.
Event tracking. You need at least two third party tools to do this (a calendar and a relay bot)
User tracking. (All you get, user ID and the name#1234 tag one of those requires a bot to acquire.)
For most small groups this isn't much of a problem. You don't need to worry about permanence, and they're mostly TZ centric.
The biggest advantage to a forum like the RPC is the permanence feature and the easy of copying your stuff to a different medium.
That permanence allows people to participate in more of the discussions that happen off hour for them or even earlier in the week. Â
On Discord (or IRC/Slack), said interesting topic has already been scrolled past and four or five other discussions may have happened since you were last online. With discord in trafficked channels "necroposting" becomes a matter of hours instead of months on heavily trafficked discord channels.
That permanence thing also allows forum RP to happen between people that may not be around at the moment. (read: RP by mail)
Anyway, TL;DR side of things, discord is nifty, but it's not a full solution to what a decent community needs, in my opinion.
