Thoughts on making a MonoGame Discord server?

Carpetwurm 2016-07-12 00:43:55 UTC #1

I've noticed that the MonoGame community doesn't have anything in the way of an IRC server or anything, so what would you all think of having a MonoGame Discord server? Maybe just for discussing development, getting quick help, general discussion, etc. I'm asking here before making one, just to get all of your opinions on the idea. (Since I'm new to the community and am not sure to what you guys would think of an IRC type thing) Anyways, thanks for reading, can't wait to hear your responses.

(If you don't know what Discord is, check here, the site likes to advertise it's voice chat over it's text chat, but it has a very good text chat service.)

KonajuGames 2016-07-12 02:51:09 UTC #2

We already use Gitter for instant chat. It's linked from the GitHub page, and there's a (non-obvious, admittedly) link at the bottom of the front of monogame.net.

Carpetwurm 2016-07-12 03:06:11 UTC #3

Gitter is rather limited though, and doesn't offer much over the Slack/Discord formula of having multiple channels and such. But it's pretty hard to get a community to switch to something new, so I don't think it will be worth trying to get a Discord server going.

cra0zy 2016-07-12 07:49:25 UTC #4

Gitter offers multiple rooms, and it does have good GitHub integration.

lozzajp 2016-07-12 08:06:50 UTC #5

I quite like gitter, there usually isn't a lot of activity anyway so I think its perfect for MonoGame.

Carpetwurm 2016-07-12 15:18:51 UTC #6

Well of course Gitter has good GitHub integration, that's what it's meant for. Also, is this what you mean by multiple rooms? (Image)

cra0zy 2016-07-12 16:48:18 UTC #7

Yes and no. Besides repos, groups can also have rooms and these are the rooms I was referring to.

Carpetwurm 2016-07-12 17:02:24 UTC #8

I was imagining something like the HaxeFlixel server, where the rooms were more specific. Like this

cra0zy 2016-07-12 18:29:48 UTC #9

That can be done with Gitter, tho usually 2 rooms are enough per repo (one private and one public).

Carpetwurm 2016-07-12 21:17:53 UTC #10

But the gitter doesn't have rooms for showing off your work or anything specific, does it?Just general discussion about anything MonoGame I'm guessing

KonajuGames 2016-07-12 22:55:18 UTC #11

Showing off work is best done in the more persistent forums than a temporal chat. There's not that much traffic on instant messaging that we need separate rooms.

Apostolique 2018-11-05 22:05:48 UTC #12

Here is the MonoGame Discord link: https://discord.gg/FpzVawT

There's a lot of people in there, including Tom Spilman.