[Withdrawn] Looking for players subforum proposal

[Thyrzul]

If tomorrow Discord/Skype/Etc dies, this forum would live on. If tomorrow the forum dies, our community and the essence of why we are all here is instantly broken. Discord would die eventually after. The reason, Thyrzul, I propose this new subforum is because of one particular simple fact. This forum is our communities beating heart. This forum came before everything else. It holds yours, mine and every members Discovery identify and expressions.

These are just platforms of communication, one for rapid, dynamic chats with relatively short messages, the other for longer discourses and bigger amounts of thoughts to exchange. If either dies or becomes obsolete, the community moves on and looks for an alternative, just like how we moved from Skype to Discord or how the forum used to migrate a few times in the past from one host to the other. Neither seems to have the potential to just die out on its own before the community does, causing it, more like the other way around: the forum dies once (and because) the community dies too.

Furthermore, as I said before, this forum holds our Discovery identities, our Discovery forum accounts. On Discord I do not know who half the people are. But here? Here if I see you, Thyrzul or Silverlight, Durandal, Pillow, Altzek, Miloslav, WPeregrine and everyone else post a thread saying "Going in-game in an hour. Trading from Kusari to Rheinland via Sigma" then I know who you are and I know I can expect a bloody good time interacting with you in game. An added benefit being when you go in-game you know other players are holding your actions in-game as a reflection of your forum account. Ultimately likely to improve your enthusiasm in game and RP/PvP better than ever.

The Discord name/ID combinations, the nickname handling, the role/permission system, the option to write self-notes to each profile, and the general habit of people using the same names on both platforms and/or rarely renaming themselves help a lot at connecting identities and essentially make the above a non-issue.

Threads also hold records better than Discord. I could browse this proposed subforum and see all the players agreeing to meet up in-game and perhaps along the way some semi-major events unfold. Imagine threads saying "Alright in 12 hours, myself and two other LNS caps are invading Rheinland. LNS-Hampshire, LNS-Wilco & LNS-Washington". Then within that 12 hours leading up suddenly 4 or 5 other great community members reply "Ha! Me and the RM boys will be ready". And then after you go back onto that thread and it's "Kudos for the fight. Loved the Roleplay". That sort of community spirit and interaction is the most important thing we can ever share on this forum.

Being able to cut that 12 hours down to 60/30/10 minutes is where dynamic messaging platforms can beat forums. E-chats in general were used for that even back in the times of Skype. Dynamic messaging platforms are also better at handling greater amounts of shorter and less important messages than the forums.

In the end it all boils down to whether it causes as little harm as little benefits it can have and whether the Staff considers it worthy to implement or not.

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