Delete all OOC channels from Aurora Relay, keep the discord for IC interactions only

[NG+7 Gael]

On 12/10/2023 at 12:03, Omicega said:

You can't expect anyone to take you seriously if all you're going to do is make vague allusions to some unknowable trauma that apparently, for some mysterious reason, only affects the main Discord and not the Relay server. If it really is that serious, whatever it is, I'd suggest you stop trying to be so subtle about it in public and take it directly to staff so it can be addressed. You aren't helping anyone by trying to express the strongest possible opposition with the weakest possible evidence, least of all yourself.

I get your point, but I'm not interested in bringing up my reasons for disliking using the main discord, publicly or privately to staff- it's not something for them to solve, it's purely a personal thing. The point was that myself and other people have reasons why we prefer to use the relay over the main discord, and it's not because of this ridiculous idea that all of us have some sense of 'superiority' because we use a different discord. Normally, I would say maybe some people do- but I really fucking doubt it. The claim is stupid as hell, and I think the people making claims like that seriously need to rethink what they're saying.

Overall, I don't really care too much either way. I don't need the relay to be around and I understand that there are likely a number of positives to merging from the perspective of staff. However, I do prefer being able to comfortably interact with the community OOCly, and that's what the relay offers to me. It's simply more comfortable. This is, of course, largely irrelevant to the community as a whole, so I don't expect it to mean anything. I don't believe my opinions to hold more weight than other people's within the community. My goal was more-or-less just speaking out against that frankly delusional claim as well as trying to explain that there are, in fact, actual reasons why some people prefer to interact with the relay and not the main discord. These reasons differ from person to person, so I can't exactly expand upon them. This may seem obvious and not worth pointing out, but again- considering what some people are saying, I think it is.

On 12/10/2023 at 15:58, Vulcenus said:

nuke all the discord servers and disable the global ooc on top of that honestly

This is an absolutely terrible idea, and a fantastic way to completely kill the community. A lot of us interact with each other via the discords OOCly, and completely separate from anything about the game. As a matter of fact, I'd argue the majority of OOC discussion in the relay is completely unrelated to the game. A lot of us aren't interested in talking about the game and only the game with each other, and a lot of us want to interact with each other outside of the game. A lot of us have also made friends within the community through OOC interactions- because how the fuck are you going to make friends with people OOCly through nothing but IC interactions? Sometimes problematic metacliques pop up, but it's infrequent and usually quickly dissipates. More often than not, these 'cliques' are just friend groups.

Even if your only interest is in the server itself and RP, I doubt the server would survive this- and if it somehow managed to, it would lose a significant portion of its population.

Edited October 15, 2023 by NG+7 Gael

[Alberyk]

This was implemented as the relay was unified with the main discord.

[canon35]

Are there any plans to integrate the Departmental or Lore discord into the main discord?

[Triogenix]

On 19/10/2023 at 00:44, canon35 said:

Are there any plans to integrate the Departmental or Lore discord into the main discord?

https://discord.com/channels/731155842862153838/731166974247305309/1163500041902755882 from what I can tell, this message says that the departmental discord at least will be merged.

As for the lore discord, I'm not against it, but nothing has been decided at this point. It'll require a lot of discussion before hand and is a bridge we'll cross when we come to it.

[Carver]

I’d hope Lore isn’t integrated, it’s really too large to maintain in its breadth even if you did cut the fat (meme channels, art channels). I don’t know if the main cord would port the ‘interested’ roles as well, though I would hope so.