[Withdrawn] Looking for players subforum proposal

[Thyrzul]

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.

You are right, the forums did change. However our forum accounts hold valuable information, history and character as opposed Discord accounts. If you type on Discord I don't have anything to go off than an image and name. On the forums you have their past actions, threads, posts, RP posts etc.

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.

Not everyone uses those features for multiple reasons. Not everyone lurks Discord too or goes on the individual channels inside it.

Oh, one doesn't have to use those features, they are optional, not mandatory - though one doesn't even use most of those features I mentioned other than looking at and matching nicknames between Discord and the forum. But then their availability makes it a choice for one to connect those identities, and thus whether Discord identities hold the same valuable information for them as forum identities do.

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.

Yes Discord is better at 60/30/10 minutes but this is now a community where people have jobs and that planning when to go in-game is the best way to get groups of people in-game. This is the reason why events are published on the forums a week + in advance. It is more effective to use the forum than Discord's instant messaging.

Sure, major events with more significance and required coordination have always been and will always be posted on the forum in advance, that hasn't changed and is unlikely to change, same goes for minor event alerts going off on Skype e-chats back then, going off on Discord e-chats these days, within short notice. But we already have the forum sections for major events.

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