Forum/discord discussion

[kristof65]

2 hours ago, Arc 724 said:

Discord's metric's, at Reapers level, is freakin sick! Not to mention user friendly to both the users and the managers. 

I completely disagree with this. I hate the Discord interface/layout. I don't find it intuitive at all, and it just frustrates the broccoli out of me every time I try and use it. It bamboozles me in the same way people get frustrated with the Campaign Cartographer interface, which I am 100% comfortable with. 
 

48 minutes ago, CashWiley said:

I really don't like Discord (which is fine, people should use what they prefer!), though I'd say it's well-titled.

Ditto to everything you said here, but especially this. 
 

6 minutes ago, Glitterwolf said:

One of the benefits of this forum to me is the International aspect.

I'm in Europe a lot of you are in the USA, I believe Discord is more real time.

Here I can post something, you guys read and respond later and so on.

In discord this would probably get lost.

 

I can't emphasize enough that I really appreciate both Reaper and the Forumites here for keeping this such a cool and friendly place.

 

My apologies if my fear of losing this Forum rubbed someone the wrong way.

That was not my intent.

It's just that a lot of things nowadays tend to get thrown away to be replaced by newer stuff which is sometimes better but certainly not always.

I'm happy to hear that's not the plan here.

 

Again, a big thank you to @Guindyloo and @buglips*the*goblin 

Ditto was well. 

[Arc 724]

25 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

frustrates the broccoli out of me 

HAHA ! I'm adding that one to my phrase book.  

To each his own 🤷‍♂️. I've been managing discord for a while so I'm use to it. 

[Glitterwolf]

Wow! Thanks @Reaper_Jon!

[malefactus]

I see the Discord link thingy has gotten smaller & somewhat paler. WELL DONE!

[ManvsMini]

1 hour ago, malefactus said:

I see the Discord link thingy has gotten smaller & somewhat paler. WELL DONE!

 

To add another "Well done!" and acknowledge a feature I find extremely thoughtful, they've added Upcoming Events on the sidebar. Right now it's displaying when the Twitch shows are airing next, and also a separate one for what looks like Reaper model challenges (not the RCL). Well done, Reaper team!

[ttuckerman]

On 12/8/2021 at 5:38 PM, ManvsMini said:

 

To add another "Well done!" and acknowledge a feature I find extremely thoughtful, they've added Upcoming Events on the sidebar. Right now it's displaying when the Twitch shows are airing next, and also a separate one for what looks like Reaper model challenges (not the RCL). Well done, Reaper team!

You have cluttered up the forum with information that we already know or do not want to know.  My perspective is that most of the "improvements" to the forum are not improvements.

[WhiteWulfe]

While I can see the use for some (or even many people), I find it rather cluttering to have all those events, and would love to have the ability to hide them (and y'know, have the main section be larger).  But I also don't like cluttered interfaces when I'm on a forum. 

[buglips*the*goblin]

The sidebar has been a forum feature for some years now, way back in 2016/2017 when the software was upgraded and broken some usernames (making me, for some time, buglips*the*gobli  n).  It didn't really have a purpose, it was just there and showed recent topics and posts as a new feature.  The board itself is big enough, top to bottom, to give a lot of empty space on that side and even now still has a lot once you scroll down far enough.  The recent additions are using that unused space in order to cross-advertise other parts of the Reaper community, and it should be a self-evident truth that the best place for Reaper to advertise its community stuff is where it engages most directly with its core community audience.  The alternative, which we could call the former system, was for information to be scattered here and there like breadcrumbs and many people found it frustrating to determine what the twitch schedule was or where contests and other events were.  Now that information is provided, and all it cost us was wasted space that only appears on the main forum page anyways.  It is objectively an improvement over having to wander hither and yon to find anything out.  It is also objectively an improvement over forcing everyone here to go to the discord to find information out.  The forum can either be a part of things or not a part of things, but it cannot be both at the same time like schroedinger's message board.  

 

The twitch show information, in particular, has been a bugbear of mine for far too long and it was well past due for that to be added here since an awful lot of people only knew shows were on when @Serenity posted about them (I gave at least one gift cert in thanks for doing that).  It's all well and good to say this is all stuff you already knew, and I have no doubt that this is true for you, but I can tell you for a fact that for too many people it was not true and I've seen the complaints.  Changes that are made are made with the view of achieving the most good for the least cost, and this does that.  There may be additional tweaks to come in the future to refine this.  But I do not agree that adding three boxes into the white space of the already extant sideboard is introducing an obtrusive element.  

[ttuckerman]

So two problems with your post.  You said that the non forum community post are where it "engages most directly with its core community audience"  I think that it is least engaging. And Twitch has the schedule so that anyone with a mind can find it.  

[Auberon]

I kind of feel like I should have a strong opinion on this, but I really don't.  Discord is there, I have an account, but I don't really use it.

 

The events sidebar doesn't bother me as it is just one more in the stack, but it looks like all it is doing is just duplicating information already in the Calendar?