I watched yesterday from Zbrush a Twitch stream and this is something that stuck with me. It seems like many people here are stuck with there own ways. I believe that this is very much needed to open up the Community more. Links to said (very large) discord servers. Not saying your wrong, just saying, what may not be right for you may be right for some. Its seen huge success well outside of the game community, with the likes of Epic, Unity, Allegorithmic, Zbrush and Polygon having official discord servers, not to mention hordes of game development companies using it as a base for user testing and community building. (End of personal history affecting my current opinions.) I did that, and got past that "phase", and I don't want to be there again. I wouldn't want to stop anyone from trying out Discord if they want to feel like they belong to a closely knit community of like-minded people (depending on what group they join), and if you have plenty of time to spare and if your work does not require you to be focused. I completely understand how/why Discord enjoys great success among Gamers, but (IMHO) for grown-ups working on actual projects, it's nothing but a distraction. I view Discord being just more of the same. It felt good and I enjoyed my respected status on the channels - but in retrospect, it was a total waste of MY time, and barely any record of those chat-logs exist today.
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Then I would pause working (I was a device driver developer for a certain brand of Point-Of-Sale systems at the time) and I would switch to the IRC-client to read and answer any messages on the channel or maybe even just to greet new visitors to the channel. I would have my IRC-client open all the time, and I would get an audio notice for every new message. This feature comparison page is equally useful:īy their nature, these types of voice/text-chat systems are better suited for one-off realtime conversations, than for ongoing threaded discussion with persistent storage and content search.Īs an anecdote, around 20-years ago I used to spend huge amounts of time on various programmer/developer channels on IRC (text-chat only). This is, of course, something that everyone will have to evaluate for themselves, I do not speak for others. Lastly, instead of embracing this Discord idea, I (personally) will have to reject it, because I would not have time to be on Discord. Those channels are used mostly for news/marketing, and I do not see them as competing with the Forums. There is, of course, already a 3D-Coat Facebook community and Andrew has a Twitter account. My opinion is, that diversification of the 3D-Coat community, by introducing additional third-party supported "gathering places" (voice/text chat) will move talent and information away from the main community (which is the 3D-Coat Forums). But in this case, as a support solution, I think there is nothing better than the forums.) (Which is not to say that Discord cannot be used productively, I'm sure it can. I have very limited experience with Discord, but from what I can gather, using Discord would seem more like a distraction from doing actual work. The same questions and answer need to be repeated all the time? Discussions are not archived and not searchable? So, how does Discord compare to the forums? This forum works just fine the forum is easy to search, it's easy to track new posts, and most important of all - everything is archived.
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