Have you guys thought of making a Discord server for the wiki? There's a few others I've noticed that have done this before. Just a thought I wanted to throw out there.
Have you guys thought of making a Discord server for the wiki? There's a few others I've noticed that have done this before. Just a thought I wanted to throw out there.
The server region, what would that be? All of us are from across the globe
Is there an International option? Could just put that.
That really doesn’t matter much. You can set it near your own location if you wish, or to one that you think many people would be from (such as East Coast America). Officially whichever region you pick will be faster for people near there, & slower for people farther away, but I’ve never had any lag before.
Well, the wiki has a chat that literally no one has used for months, so I'm not sure if Discord would be any more active.
If users are flocking to Discussions in numbers, but not to chat, then I think it’s a problem with the medium, not a lack of willing participants. It might actually be worth it to close chat entirely, if it’s as dead as you say.
Agreed. And a lot of the people here use the phone app, which you can't access the chat, only the discussion. I'm just worried how out of hand it'll get however
You can't use the chat on the mobile app? That seems like a major misstep on wikia's part. I don't really think we need to close it, though, as it's there if anyone wants it and we do have separate moderators for it.
I'm not necessarily opposed to Discord, but how do other wikis handle the moderation of it?
I agree about the chat bit, & I’ve argued to include chat into the Discussions Apps, but I doubt I made any headway with higher ups.
Discord is a pretty mixed bag. Some Wikis insist that user rights carry over to their Discord before they’ll consider it official, while a lot more (including mine) allow the Discord to choose its own leadership, & they’re pretty independent from the Wiki itself.
Fortunately there is a useful Script that allows a Discord entry module to be added to the right rail of the Wiki itself, on desktop at least:
Wow... It's been a long, long time since I've been active on this wiki!
Yes, the chat is dead. I'm in it sometimes just for the sake of being a chatmod, but during that time noone else joined so far. Closing the chat however would make me very sad since I have many fond memories of it (together with as many other good people not on this wiki anymore... So if any of you guys read this, come visit me in the chat! It's been a load of fun with you!).
Other than that: I don't have Discord and I still don't see a reason to change it. Well... If I am ever going to change my mind and install it, I would offer myself as a mod there. Same with my current status as chatmod.
And I don't even know why noone joins it sometimes?
I'm going to be in there more often for the last few weeks, so just write me something. I'll answer but it may probably take some time, since the notification system is bugged and never fixed and I won't have that tab open all the time. But I'll answer!
Having written this made me kind of sad. Sniff. Memories.
P.S.: Oh... I just now realized that this thread is oooold. Is necroing stuff still frowned upon?