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RE: Mateus (and other servers) Takeover? - Erah'sae - 01-15-2018
Just to give it a little nudge.... info on that Mataus event calendar (and associated discord bot) I mentioned earlier in the thread can be found here:Â Â http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=21224
Contacts Neneso for hitting release!
RE: Mateus (and other servers) Takeover? - ArmachiA - 01-16-2018
I'm in the Mateus Discord but I never really post, I just like to see how the server is doing and... hooboy
I have a Discord for my guild (Who doesn't?) but we still have a forum for more permanent things like Events, Character Journals, Timelines, Summaries, etc etc. The Mateus Discord tries way too hard to be a forum. There's a million chatrooms, all of them beep at you when someone posts (I've had to mute all of them, but more seem to pop up every few weeks), the FC and Character section is pretty much a mess. While the FC section is BETTER, the "Here's my character" section of it is really hard to navigate and if you don't put it out there in peak time it's easy to get lost. The discussions are really only for people online at the time and if you don't have a lot of time on your hands, or don't say anything unless it's important, you're going to get lost in the shuffle. I help clarify lore sometimes, but my words easily get lost in there.
Discord is super useful, but Forums are still better for a permanent information base. I don't think Tumblr is that great considering how hard it is to shift things around. A lot of those things on the Mateus discord would be much, much better suited for a forum.
On in-fighting - That happens, I've seen it happen on the Mateus Discord. It happens on Tumblr almost hourly it seems like. I wouldn't let that stop anyone from joining. Drama is inevitable, I mean... look at the drama we get in game. It's actually pretty sparse here, it's just discussions people can get blunt (Nothing wrong with that).
I hope Mateus does consider coming here, this was never a Balmung only forum. It just ended up that way because Gilgamesh died.