YakYak Discord...

[RiK]

Oh, ace, been hoping for a YY discord. Bit nicer than IRC, innit.

Yeah loads, early days but it seems to be a popular idea, about 25 people in there now.

[Cloudane]

RIP forum

Hardly. Two different things entirely.

You can't beat a forum for separate threaded conversations, but it is nice to have something a bit more up to date for real-time chat eh?

I completely agree with you, but have also seen forums become a bit of a ghost town after Facebook, Telegram or Discord groups were formed as a lot of the chatter goes there. Maybe it'll be a bit different here though as it's largely older people more set in their ways

[RiK]

but have also seen forums become a bit of a ghost town after Facebook, Telegram or Discord groups were formed as a lot of the chatter goes there.

I've been using all sorts for years. Chat rooms have always felt different to forums. Years ago we were all over IRC and that didn't detract from the forum, just complimented it. Discourse is the same thing, only a bit more up to date.

For me, the only place I really think detracted from forum use was Facebook and personally I've been really weaning myself off there the past year or so. The signal to noise ratio is useless and I only really keep a presence as I manage a couple of work-related pages and need to be there for those.

I'd been using Slack a lot recently for group chats, but one regular group decided to migrate to Discord (having reached our free hosting limit on Slack) so it just seemed an opportune moment to set up one for YY too.

[Devlin]

the invite link expired. I'm down for a discord, but please please just use irc instead

[RiK]

the invite link expired. I'm down for a discord, but please please just use irc instead

Sorry, thought it was set to not expire. Updated https://discord.gg/fgWSTU2

[RiK]

Growing nicely, over 30 people in there now :-)

[nyarla]

great idea i will always love IRC but discord's way more convenient. *joins to lurk forever*

[RiK]

great idea i will always love IRC but discord's way more convenient.

Absolutely, decent cross-platform app support, drag and drop for media files etc. Way better in every way :-)

[RiK]

Fair quiet on there at the mo, but we've got 45 members so far so it's building nicely..

[Portland]

A wild portland appears

[RiK]

Minor downside of the discord is that a few of the people over there have a different username on Discord to the one they have on YY so it’s a job to figure out who’s who.

maybe if you’re one of the people that falls into that category you could drop the note below of your discord nick?

[TFO]

TFO -> The Frozen One

[Portland]

I accidentally cross posted about bees the other day, but still pop on to see what's going on here. Portland in both places, just Eric Morecambe vs red mana symbol.

[corrosive]

Yay, another place to lurk!

[RiK]

Discord is building slowly but surely, got about 75 members over there now :-)