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IF YOU WANT AN INVITE TO DISCORD, PM ME.

So I liked having an ACTIVE IRC channel, but I'm pretty tired of having IRC itself in general. I signed up for Discord, would people take a look at it and see if it may be something that could get more of us into a chat room regularly?

I guess I'm mostly talking to Hex folks, but I'd love to have it more active than that.

www.discordapp.com

As an aside, I'm amazed at how slow Steam has been to properly support guilds/groups. What a shitshow.

Steam groups are pretty decent for small group voice chats.

not voice, just chat room with chat rooms for whatever games. I really hate IRC.

I mean, we can use voice, but I don't care about voice.

I've used Discord before for Minecraft server groups, works fine. IRC is so... 90s.

Id prefer Slack but ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Seems strange for anything but business.

I like the fact that it keeps history for channels you are on even if you don't have it running (compared to a normal irc client).

It just seems all around good. Also, I kinda prefer chat to almost anything else these days.

Discord is basically gaming-flavored Slack, run by Curse. Anyway, I'll try to remember to hop on from time to time.

I downloaded it. Is there an f13 room set up?

https://discord.gg/W6BpD (f13 room)

I could jump in, but I'm on dirty Euro times now.  :why_so_serious:

How can you be tired of IRC? I've used it for 20 years (UO alpha/Meridian 59 launch) and don't plan on quitting.

Because it's fucking dreadful and always was, but it was so convenient there was no reason not to use it. Now there are reasons?

How is it dreadful? Tuck it away in a screen session (or use tmux if you are fancy - but if you're fancy you're probably using slack) and connect to it when you feel like it.

Cause you need an always on server to get real use out of that.  I have 3 different devices I check chats on (laptop, desktop, phone) and being able to have them all synced, view history, and get mobile notifications of messages if I'm away is extremely valuable without messing with the very complicated setup of mimicing that in IRC.

I don't mind IRC and hate change, but I guess I'll download this when I get home and give it a shot.

I really like discord and was trying to use it with a couple of different groups, and still sort of do. I also changed to using discord for the Landmark guild who never used teamspeak, and the discord I created for that was hardly used.

Some good info on permissions and setting it up is here > Discord Permissions (https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/206029707?flash_digest=604a106fb3591235681c0928b60e4622820d0e38)

I'm willing to put up with a lot of user-unfriendly Linuxy bullshit but "every user should just run their own server in addition to the actual server" is, uh, pretty squarely inside the boundaries of "dreadful".

I'd prefer slack too, since I already have it running all the time. I have other various interest group chats on there too, so not being business focused is fine.

Edit: checking it out though, I like the voice options ..

Does Discord work in a web browser?  I keep Slack open while I'm at work sometimes but don't want to download any extra software on my office computer.

"The instant invite is invalid or has expired."

yes it works in a web browser

Those links are only good for 24 hours if memory serves.

Here's a new one: https://discord.gg/a3ZRP

People with permissions can actually make permanent invites.

Honestly, there's a lot of really great things with discord, including phone support, and the voice quality was really good compared to TS/Ventrilo. I hadn't used the new ones with chat/forum things integrated, but really like discord and do think it's great for guilds, twitch broadcasters (where I was member of a few). Being free and under constant development, along with only being just over a year old, make this something to evolve with imo.

God, this app really is excellent, just in general.

I've been using Discord for several months now, and it's made it really really easy to keep in contact with multiple disparate groups from different games/MMOs I talk to. Image/file-sharing is absurdly simple, and it even has one-on-one voice chat, so it's ended up replacing both Skype and Mumble for me.

Discord is the most successful game f13 has played in months.

I'm already level ten.

Only because it hasn't hit the two week mark where everyone quits yet.

I think it's been falsely advertised to us and we should consider a class action lawsuit.

But is it Fun?

It will be, when they do updates.

Also, since the other invite (number 2) expired, I decided to create a permanent one for this thread.

Permanent invite:
https://discord.gg/6UFGUzB

Thanks for putting up the permanent link

Bump for folks who haven't seen this yet.

Server down?  :oh_i_see:

This was the second morning in a row that Discord servers kinda shit the bed. I was connected and disconnected, and some of the other 5 servers were intermittently showing down both yesterday and today for me. Also had discord completely fail to connect as well.

This is only a problem if you like HEX.

So it was a problem for all the people who mattered.

I haven't had any problems with Discord.

Why isn't this stickied?

Do you like HEX or Trump?

hey

we talk about other things, it's just brief

this election is eternal

we gazed into the abyss

and the abyss gave us trump

Is it down, or did I manage to get myself banned? Some bot named Clyde is telling me sending messages is disabled.

--Dave

Edit: Apparently it's not just me

https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/qk9cdgnqnhcn (https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/qk9cdgnqnhcn)

I'm on 4 servers and they're all down.

Thanks, Trump.

Linky no worky.

Yeah, killed it. You have a PM. Everyone else, see sticky.

PSA:

Discord is blocked by airplane wi-fi provided by T-Mobile (I guess because it has video chatting?).

I know for a fact that GoGo inflight does not block it.

whatever jetblue uses doesn't block it either

Now that the goddamn planet is quarantined, you all should really join discord. We stream movies, tv, games (rarely because we're old now), and uh

yeah

join

It's a good place and I really appreciate it as a place to interact with you fine folks.

Truth. Also I'm in there more than I'm on here.

I'm on there more than here because my new workplace does not firewall out Discord, but it does f13.

f13 Discord: For all your Road House or Sumo streaming needs.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/KaMwgoNp2MJPO/giphy.gif)

!chungus

I'm just there for the sumo adjacent content.

Is Discord down for anyone else? Not really sure where else to ask, but I'm unable to access it from my PC or phone.

It's working for others.

Working right now for me.

So uh updated link the one on page one is broken.

PM schild.

yeah it's worth mentioning discord is extremely active

also we do movie nights and shit

and Wordle

Can I get in on discord? (First page links did not work for me.)

Edit: thanks schild.

Not entirely sure how I missed that this was a thing for.. six plus years? Wow. Could I get in, as well?

sent

I wasted an f13 discord invite years ago on an account I've lost. Could I ask for another while you're at it please? I've got a proper Discord account now.

Me too please, been very late to the discord party.

Edit: Thanks Schild.

Sent to both of you.

https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-conversation

You are not the latest. Apparently permanent invite links don't last 6+ years.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=26388.msg1574655#msg1574655