Discord

[NotMiki]

Any reason we shouldn't migrate to it from irc?  Seems more robust and user-friendly to me.

[SnowFire]

I'm in favor of it.  Create a #rpgdl Discord and we'll be good.

The only possible drawback is losing IRC bots, and most of them don't run anymore anyway.

EDIT: It was one off-hand comment about specific bots like Hatbot which haven't run for years.  Sheesh.  Okay okay okay we can safely consider re-enabling bots an advantage of Discord, you win, I wasn't actually fighting this to begin with and was in favor of moving to Discord anyway, etc.

[Ranmilia]

Compared to IRC, Discord doesn't run on all platforms, is not anywhere near as configurable, can be very difficult to sort through long-term logs, and is centralized, proprietary and beholden to a single corporation that is trying to make it into a for-profit service.  It's fine, I've been using it more (and there are already a few DL servers), but I think I'll always want IRC around too. 

[Sierra]

I've spent time using both and prefer IRC's no-frills B&W to Discord's display. I find it a lot easier to scroll through a lot of old lines to get caught up after being away for a while in IRC than in Discord.

[NotMiki]

Is there some me hidden irc magic that lets you see all the stuff that was said when uou were disconnected?

[jsh357]

Discord servers are ridiculously easy to set up if you want to give it a trial run.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I love Discord but straight up can't use it anywhere I have time to actually hang out in DL chat (work, mobile, specifically). Whereas IRC makes downtime at work into DL time~

[Grefter]

Is the android app really bad?  I use the iOS version. To swear at guildies and Zenny all the time.

[jsh357]

I have personally found Discord nothing but user-friendly and mostly superior to IRC (aside from IRC being more lightweight, which is a nice advantage, mind). The Android app is good, but does have a couple of minor bugs I've noticed.

Still, if it's not something the majority of the community wants, well, there's a good reason not to move over.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I don't really care; don't have a problem with either. El Cid and Jim have hit on what I consider the main advantage of each already, though neither is a dealbreaker for me.

Though does Discord seriously not have bots for dicerolls etc.? For a program that's supposed to be about chat for gamers that's really weird.

[Meeplelard]

I'm personally fine with whatever.  I think an advantage of IRC has is that it's already established for us, though this isn't to say we can do a gradual shift in having both running concurrently and people slowly migrate from one to the other.

[Yakumo]

Discord has all kinds of bots and they aren't terribly hard to program either, I'm not sure why that's being mentioned as a negative. 

[Grefter]

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/4vfbqi/looking_for_a_dice_bot/

[Veryslightlymad]

Thread revivification.


It seems like we stuck with (at least officially) IRC, but if there is a dedicated discord chat floating around, especially if any of us want to game together, could someone throw a brotha a link?

[NotMiki]

SnowFire posted this in the DLCon topic but just so you're all aware, there's an RPGDL discord now and here's the address.  The link expires after a certain number of joins, so if it doesn't work for you, pm SnowFire for an invite.

https://discord.gg/Jb9J2Mp