We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community.

Zark Muckerburg

@Gargron matrix has been a bit of a challenge with voice chat in the past. But for text chat is great. There is also Stoat Chat which does have wonderful group chat system
In place. Lastly if your a happy tinkerer than you an look into the many discord clone projects out there and build the instance locally from the many GitHub repos

Andy L.

@Gargron Oh, I guess it is. Then I retract my criticism. Sorry.

Rachel Rawlings

@Gargron I quit a writing group on Discord years ago when I noticed it was broadcasting every time I opened a game in steam, and wondered what other things it was spying on.

pounce

@Gargron don't forget us IRC folks have been working to reach feature parity with discord the whole time that people have been moving away from it

it's a pretty good alternative these days!

Mischa

@Gargron Zulip doesn’t have voice right? What are you using as an alternative for that?

Netraven

@Gargron Not a participant, but I hope discord dies just because of how many communities it has destroyed.

Richard

@Gargron So, should we discontinue Patreon donations? And wait until you are set up in the new location?

Eugen Rochko

@waystation Why would you need to do that? You don’t have to use Discord even now, it is optional.

Dmian 🇪🇺

@lefteristrip23 @Gargron I’m just guessing, but maybe because they’re a small team that needs a solution and not another service to manage and maintain? Sometimes you just want a no-friction service that won’t add extra load on your employees. But that’s me speculating. There could be a way different but completely justified reason. These are smart people, and I trust they know what they’re doing.

Richard

@Gargron I don't use discord. I never even visit the Patreon. I just didn't know if Patreon is becoming an unsafe space.

Григорий Клюшников

I don't understand why all centralized services suddenly insist on actually verifying their users' age for real. What was wrong with asking for a birth date or even just presenting a "yes I'm 18 or older" button? NSFW websites somehow still do just fine with that, but Discord, which is much less "risky" in comparison, somehow needs real verification?

Gosh I miss the old internet.

Eugen Rochko

@waystation We have a Discord for people who support us on Patreon. We’re planning to move from Discord to Zulip for that purpose instead.

Λευτέρης Τ.

@dmian @Gargron to be fair, matrix isn't quite there yet, indeed

Richard

@Gargron Ah, I misread. My apologies. I've been under the weather since last night.

The Net is Vast and Infinite

@Gargron @waystation Rather stupidly, a lot of software support and wiki's are now contained only on Discord, which has been a stupid move to be clear. Even purely social communities for almost anything host on Discord now.

The internet is a lonelier place for all the social interactivity it has hoovered up.

Time will tell if Discord have pointed both barrels at their feet and pulled the trigger... But nobody seems happy with the decision.

Dmian 🇪🇺

@lefteristrip23 @Gargron Even if it was, and it will be a mature platform one day, you always need someone to take care of it. It’s the same with everything you install on a server. And sometimes, you’re not eager to do that.

Scale Theory

@Gargron

Make sure you use a different account name if you submit yourself to 1984 dystopia, so you screw up facial recognition subversion.

Dmian 🇪🇺

@targrus @Gargron Same. Also, thanks to this Discord affair, I learned about Stoat (formerly Revolt) https://stoat.chat

Benjamin Alan Jamie

@Gargron Thank you for the move and for talking about this publicly!

Angela Scholder

@Gargron Never heard of that one..

Wandering Adventure Party

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community.