11-29-2017, 08:39 PM
i'm personally okay with the idea of it becoming the official discord but i understand the appeal of having our own chat as well.
while we are for the most part a fairly small and self-contained community, it's very important for us to socialize with our "neighbors" so we can get fresh eyes going both in and out. i think a large part of our recent problems stem from inadvertently shutting ourselves out from the rest of the world, which caused some pretty large upsets the few times we got new groups of users who saw the mess we made for ourselves. having our own personal in-community chat is nice to have for more casual discussions, yea, but when every time someone new joins the discord before the forums they're met with "WHO ARE YOU ON MFGG?", then i think there's a problem.
the affiliation would help regardless, but i'm with cake in that having it be the official discord would result in a lot of really great cross promotion stuff. i mean, they're already discord partners, this is the kind of opportunity we need to take when it comes our way. crossing over our events with theirs sounds like a really great and fun idea (the monthly faction battles immediately spring to mind), plus the potential additional presence on sites like reddit on top of our pre-existing facebook and twitter is even better.
while we are for the most part a fairly small and self-contained community, it's very important for us to socialize with our "neighbors" so we can get fresh eyes going both in and out. i think a large part of our recent problems stem from inadvertently shutting ourselves out from the rest of the world, which caused some pretty large upsets the few times we got new groups of users who saw the mess we made for ourselves. having our own personal in-community chat is nice to have for more casual discussions, yea, but when every time someone new joins the discord before the forums they're met with "WHO ARE YOU ON MFGG?", then i think there's a problem.
the affiliation would help regardless, but i'm with cake in that having it be the official discord would result in a lot of really great cross promotion stuff. i mean, they're already discord partners, this is the kind of opportunity we need to take when it comes our way. crossing over our events with theirs sounds like a really great and fun idea (the monthly faction battles immediately spring to mind), plus the potential additional presence on sites like reddit on top of our pre-existing facebook and twitter is even better.