Glorantha Discord

[Shub-Nullgurath]

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To those of you who don't know what Discord is, it's basically everything that made IRC, Skype and TeamSpeak good rolled into one package. It's what all them hip cool kids are using nowadays instead of other chats.

I've set one up for Glorantha for smaller lore questions and the like.

[Noita]

I use Google +. I personally don't see the point of having more places to post.

[David Scott]

It looks like you need to have an account to be able to see anything. Personally I prefer sites that let you look without a login. My other preference is not to spread the community too thin. We already have established G+, Facebook and BRP communities, previously there have been attempts to spread to tumblr and a few other social media systems. They always (in my opinion), seem to stagnate very quickly. If you have a use for other systems that is of course fine, I for example have a Pinterest page I use for clipping stuff I think is useful, but to really see it you need an account, so not a generally useful system for everyone. If you want input from MD / Chaosium or writers who are involved with them I'd stick with the three mentioned, otherwise it's personal preference.

[Roko Joko]

It's a live text and voice chat server, not a place where you post or look in.

No, it probably won't catch on, but it doesn't overlap with anything that's already established.

[Roko Joko]

Personally - I'm not really motivated to hang out in Discord, but as it happens I do use IRC for other things, so if someone ran a Glorantha IRC channel I might hang out in that.

[Shub-Nullgurath]

10 hours ago, Iskallor said:

I use Google +. I personally don't see the point of having more places to post.

 

6 hours ago, David Scott said:

It looks like you need to have an account to be able to see anything. Personally I prefer sites that let you look without a login. My other preference is not to spread the community too thin. We already have established G+, Facebook and BRP communities, previously there have been attempts to spread to tumblr and a few other social media systems. They always (in my opinion), seem to stagnate very quickly. If you have a use for other systems that is of course fine, I for example have a Pinterest page I use for clipping stuff I think is useful, but to really see it you need an account, so not a generally useful system for everyone. If you want input from MD / Chaosium or writers who are involved with them I'd stick with the three mentioned, otherwise it's personal preference.

Basically what Roko said. Instead of having to make a forum post about an obscure little lore thing, you can post on there and hopefully get a response. IMO, it's a lot faster than standard forum and Google+ posting and I'm usually on there for other chats anyway.

[g33k]

19 minutes ago, Shub-Nullgurath said:

Basically what Roko said. Instead of having to make a forum post about an obscure little lore thing, you can post on there and hopefully get a response. IMO, it's a lot faster than standard forum and Google+ posting and I'm usually on there for other chats anyway.

Um.  It's only going to be "faster" if it has a large-ish contingent of folk who are regulars; particularly for "obscure little lore things" they must be pretty deep Gloranthaphiles.  Personally, I have multiple devices that I might prefer to connect with; I certainly don't want to lurk on a chat-server on all of those!  

Chat is wonderful for what it is; but it ISN'T a good replacement for a "forum" type site. As a non-public site (needs login to access) it's IMHO inherently less-attractive as a community resource.  At least once per week on average (usually more often) I hit BRPCentral un-logged-in (via shared/public computer) just to review recent posts.  The ability to be web-indexed & retention of past topics is INVALUABLE, for cognoscenti delving into obscure elements, for n00b's who are just meeting Glorantha/RQ/HQ/wtfDucks/whatever for the first time, and for author/publishers reaching out to fans.

Chat is inherently transient; when that's desirable, then a "Forum" site is in turn less-desirable, possibly even inadequate to the need.  As noted, "chat" doesn't really overlap with other/current resources; it may well prove to be a wonderful addition!  But I don't think it's a viable "replacement" or "instead of" site for any of the existing resources.

 

That all said, Discord claims to be gamer-centric:  color me interested!  My 2 oldest kids are off at (different) colleges; we have run *ONE* gaming-session remotely, and were not entirely satisfied.  How is Discord different/better from e.g. FantasyGrounds, Roll20, etc?  And from a roll-your-own such as a Google-centric solution (vid/voice chat, shared GoogleDocs, online dice-roller, etc)?   

 

[jajagappa]

2 hours ago, g33k said:

It's only going to be "faster" if it has a large-ish contingent of folk who are regulars; particularly for "obscure little lore things" they must be pretty deep Gloranthaphiles. 

Two sites for posting and responding to those "obscure little lore things" is more than enough for me, particularly where I'm also running PbP games on RPGGeek which I need to keep track of.

[soltakss]

On 12/7/2016 at 7:09 AM, Shub-Nullgurath said:

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To those of you who don't know what Discord is, it's basically everything that made IRC, Skype and TeamSpeak good rolled into one package. It's what all them hip cool kids are using nowadays instead of other chats.

I've set one up for Glorantha for smaller lore questions and the like.

Sounds a bit too modern for me, but thanks for setting it up. The more avenues into Glorantha the better.

[HeartQuintessence]

If anyone has a refreshed  'current' link to that Glorantha discord, I'd quite like it. (I don't actually expect a response on this thread), but sometimers having a place to  shoot the breeze in real time is quite nice. Also consistence. It's like IRC... only... modern.

[goldenwheeldancer]

Discord is taking off. I see discord groups forming in all my online haunts. Accept the future!