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Should we get our own Discord server?
Spotty Len:
I didn't mention it, but I would gladly join a Discord if there was one.
IRC is a bit too... "user-unfriendly"? I don't know a lot of people in IRC and it is a bit intimidating, so I don't have much motivation for launching the client. Discord is much friendlier and is easy to set up, and I got more reasons to launch it than for IRC.
Zerviscos:
I would say we could make one our own without an admin's permission. But that would prolly cause trouble, and tbh, it'll just touhou in general which the r/touhou's discord can also fulfill. Other than that, it'll be unofficial server.
Helepolis:
--- Quote from: Failure McFailFace on June 16, 2016, 09:43:12 PM ---Just in case if the forums go down again (for any reason at all), we could just move to the Discord for the time being, wait for information from TSO, among other things.
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IRC and forums aren't run on the same server afaik. This makes no sense.
Reu:
Sure why not, a Touhou guild on another game(Getamped2) already got me to get it, I wouldn't mind being on it for discussions, I prefer it to a forum format at the very least.
aUsernameIsFineToo:
Something I noticed is that it's currently not possible to set up a private (read: MoTK-owned) Discord server. Sure, you can host a chatroom on public servers, but it would not have the degree of control our administrators have over our three (forum, IRC, TeamSpeak) servers. This has certain security implications, as well as reliability being affected by factors beyond our control. If in the future Discord releases their server software it might be possible to get the forum administrators to set that up, be it multitasking on an existing server or as a dedicated instance.