Anyone familiar with discord, we got a server, so come join us. If you are not familiar, download discord on your desktop or phone, and come join us. Linky:
https://discord.gg/65WHx5f
Discord server up and running
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Galadhrim Bowmaster
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Thanks again for getting this set up, Aduchil!
I hope people who aren't yet on Discord will consider signing up. It's a great adjunct to the forum experience in the same way that IRC, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc were back in the day. And, for me at least, the Plaza wouldn't quite be the Plaza without group chats.
I hope people who aren't yet on Discord will consider signing up. It's a great adjunct to the forum experience in the same way that IRC, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc were back in the day. And, for me at least, the Plaza wouldn't quite be the Plaza without group chats.
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Niiiiiiiiiice!!!
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Awesome! I’ll try and make my over there later today.
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this has the Official Unofficial Narv Seal of Approval
Note that the 'admin team' (such as it is) isn't running this or anything but we are there if people want to contact us. Hopefully this will help a bit with the contacting-people-outside-of-posts issue (but I will still try to fix that for people who don't want to join the discord).
[edit: That means that if any issues come up on the Discord (technical or otherwise) our power to help with that is gonna be limited. It looks awesome and I don't foresee any problems there but just wanted to make that a little more clear]
Note that the 'admin team' (such as it is) isn't running this or anything but we are there if people want to contact us. Hopefully this will help a bit with the contacting-people-outside-of-posts issue (but I will still try to fix that for people who don't want to join the discord).
[edit: That means that if any issues come up on the Discord (technical or otherwise) our power to help with that is gonna be limited. It looks awesome and I don't foresee any problems there but just wanted to make that a little more clear]
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Wainrider
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Oh man...do we need to resurrect Hotel California on Discord as a surrogate for the AIM Group Chats of yore?!
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Snaga
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Is bumping still a thing? :D
There's about 80 of us on there so far, but the more the merrier folks!
There's about 80 of us on there so far, but the more the merrier folks!
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New Soul
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I told my husband about the Plaza being back up and on Discord. He geeked out and tried to tell me everything about it. A lot of it went over my head, but I got the gist.
He's considering joining the Plaza too, but he already has a full time job in the software/ database industry. So if he does join us on here, it would be just occasionally. He's also trying to resist offering his help. (Such a sweet guy! Glad I met him.)
Ironically, he is logging into Discord right now for his Minecraft Mondays with one of his good buddies from our church. With the shelter in place, we definitely want our writing and roleplaying outlets!
He's considering joining the Plaza too, but he already has a full time job in the software/ database industry. So if he does join us on here, it would be just occasionally. He's also trying to resist offering his help. (Such a sweet guy! Glad I met him.)
Ironically, he is logging into Discord right now for his Minecraft Mondays with one of his good buddies from our church. With the shelter in place, we definitely want our writing and roleplaying outlets!
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Anyone whether they can be here a lot of a little is more than welcome! And Narv has said, if anyone wants to help with the coding, his answer is YES PLEASE :PIstya Alassea wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 12:16 am I told my husband about the Plaza being back up and on Discord. He geeked out and tried to tell me everything about it. A lot of it went over my head, but I got the gist.
He's considering joining the Plaza too, but he already has a full time job in the software/ database industry. So if he does join us on here, it would be just occasionally. He's also trying to resist offering his help. (Such a sweet guy! Glad I met him.)
Ironically, he is logging into Discord right now for his Minecraft Mondays with one of his good buddies from our church. With the shelter in place, we definitely want our writing and roleplaying outlets!
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Bard of Imladris
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I don't see why we can't have some occassional people here :D. A lot of us are busy and will be busy in the future, after all.
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wot iz discord :D
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Come on peeps, come have a chat with us :)
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Galadhrim Bowmaster
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The link in the top post has been disabled. If anyone out there would like to join the discord still, post in this thread, and a temporary link will be provided.
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Snaga
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Is the temporary link thing intentional? Just wondering because you can actually change it so the link becomes permanent and you don't have to keep providing temp links. Just below the invite link you can 'edit invite link' and set it to never expire, or whatever timeframe you want
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Yea, so that we dont get random people joining that arent on the Plaza :)
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Snaga
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we could always point them to the plaza then 
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Sage of Khazad-dûm
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I think it needs to be private because people are quite openly discussing where they live, their personal lives etc.
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I'll take a link, thankya kindly.
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Wise Ent
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How do I get in?
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Ent Ancient
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Ahhh right ok. I finally just gave in. I have no self discipline. My username is lailerin#3157. Not sure what the number means, though. Thank you for organizing this!
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I knew I shouldn't'a asked when I didn't have the capability of actually logging in to Discord.
Link expired. Sad panda Fool.
Will trade panda badger burgers for new link.
Link expired. Sad panda Fool.
Will trade panda badger burgers for new link.
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Here you go @Wamba_the_Fool <3 https://discord.gg/w63PSs
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Ent Ancient
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Oh shoot did I use someone's link?? ahhh sorry!!! 
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@Lailyn No you didnt lol, it expires after a while and Wamba was not quick enough first time around :P
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Got it! These badger burgers for you - ignore the bite out of that one. *surreptitiously wipes mouth*
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Yea.. you're good.. thanks..
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Ent Ancient
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Ok good. Always feel free to say "Bad Lail" and slap my hand. For serious I do this in real life. (admittedly, jokingly).
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I only slap people in the Pits :P
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The arm or face sounds like an easier target.
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Ent Ancient
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Ohh should I head on over then? 
Not volunteering my face, but thanks anyway Wamba!
Not volunteering my face, but thanks anyway Wamba!
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Chef
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It's too bad there's no way to have maybe a public link, but then make it such that accessing it only requests access instead of letting you in.. then @Aduchil or whoever could verify people before letting them in and we wouldn't have these expiring links. I don't suppose there's a way to do something like that with Discord permissions? I don't anything about it personally..
anyway I agree the current temp-link setup is definitely better than the fully public link, now that we seem to be at least somewhat accessible via google and such
anyway I agree the current temp-link setup is definitely better than the fully public link, now that we seem to be at least somewhat accessible via google and such
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It is possible to do, though it would require more admins. I'll give it some thought what might be the best solution, whether to stick with temporary links on request or separate new arrivals on the server.
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A suggestion was made (came up when neither you nor Din were on) was to maybe have the new admin team get rights on the discord? Cause if anything ever does happen there, they could deal with it too.
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I'm cautious about treating the discord as any kind of official extension of the site since it's pretty much impossible to moderate it to the same degree as the site itself, and I've liked having the separation of powers.. but I def take your point that it would be helpful to be able to coordinate in the event of bad stuff happening. And also the discord gets significantly more activity than the actual site (which is great btw, saves us mad bandwidth on chat threads), so I imagine it can be a lot for Aduchil and Din to handle. So it's definitely something I'm open to figuring out with the incoming team + the current discord runners.
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I think it's best to select admins for the server separately for a few reasons. Narv mentions keeping a degree of separation, which I think is wise. Also being an admin on plaza is work enough without asking the same people to also devote time to discord, or feel that they must be "on duty" rather than chat and relax.
But there could be reasons why overlap of admin responsibility is useful, and I just haven't thought of them. So delaying the decision for now.
But there could be reasons why overlap of admin responsibility is useful, and I just haven't thought of them. So delaying the decision for now.
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To build a quick metaphor, as a custodian, the last thing I want to do when I get home is start cleaning again. Admins on one side don't need to be admins on the other. Just a quick 2 cents.
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Makes sense to me @Aduchil, maybe once this election thing is through we can figure out to what extent we want to coordinate the two. Long may there be concord with the Discord
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Galadhrim Bowmaster
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But everything changed, when the Zoom Nation attacked
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I used to play bass for Concord Discord!
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since the discord server is not up and running, what I was last saying to everyone is, well I finished watching Frozen 2 and eh, predictable
cave anserem
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Ha!
Yeah it seems it's an issue with Cloudflare affecting a lot of the internet
Yeah it seems it's an issue with Cloudflare affecting a lot of the internet
she/her | Esta tierra no es mía, soy de la nocheósfera.
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Its back :P
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And now we need to resort to the old fashioned form of communication via the forum.
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New Soul
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Watch as the number of posts in OOME explode since the Discord's down ...
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Its back!
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Arien
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It’s not back for me, BOOOOOOO!
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New Soul
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Yeah, not back for me either.
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I think it's back on for me now.
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