Channel Restructuring Feedback

[quaint tide]

Feedback here!

[rustic gust]

glad to see #memes is still here with us

[timid mortar]

The best channel 😄

[plucky tendon]

It is a surprisingly useful tool

[quaint tide]

And they said we didn't have memes.

[odd saddle]

We do love #memes As a comunity. would have been a outrage if it got removed

[pallid shuttle]

Neat, I can hide the 80% of channels that I don't use.

[plucky tendon]

That's been an option for quite a while already

[pallid shuttle]

Now with less buttons!

[timid mortar]

This description doesn't make much sense any more, that fits more into #mod-dev-help

[quaint tide]

Would you like the opportunity to fuel my laziness pick a new description

[rustic gust]

"dis is da pwase fow moddie discuzzie-wuzzies! UwU… nyAAA!"

[quaint tide]

Uh... Not sure how much you'd have to pay me to make it that but it would be a lot of money

[timid mortar]

I am finding myself creatively bankrupt at the moment

[rustic gust]

by comparison?

[timid mortar]

General discussion about making mods is accurate but boring

[quaint tide]

This just in: Factorio Expansion... Creatively Bankrupt?

[timid mortar]

I'm not the creative one, that's Earendel's job 😛

I just write code

[rustic gust]

can't wait for the "why it sucks" YouTube vids

Factorio gone WOKE!

[quaint tide]

I asked ChatGPT... it came up with actually a good answer then the page refreshed and I'm not going to re-write the prompt.

@timid mortar Hope that one is to your liking

[timid mortar]

It works 👍

[plain swallow]

It would be nice to have separate threads for some of the big mods. I remember when I was trying to talk about Industrial Revolution 3, I didn't get a lot of responses because people are mostly playing different mods.

[sage patrol]

As far as I know, the big mods like that all have their own discord servers

I'm not sure there's a place where they're all linked from though. It might be useful to have a repository of links like that somewhere. Maybe someone could just make a post for it and have it pinned in #modded-chat.

[spiral musk]

For that I would recommend using the Forum Feature, where Mod Makers could post a link to there discord, there mod page & explain some of there mods. That could use some tags & with the search feature of forums its much better then a regular channel

And that post could also be used for feedback & updates, if wanted

[balmy prawn]

It'll take a bit of getting used to, but it's nice I can hide the channels I don't use instead of using favourite channels to split out the ones I do.

[copper flint]

Discoverability for the help/mod sections when you don't know about the browse channels enable feature is a bit rough, it might be good to default the channels to active and then let people thin them out further? (Not sure at all about this)

[balmy prawn]

I would assume you get taken to id:browse when you join the server.

[quaint tide]

I've added another option to the join quesstions for mod making id:customize

[quaint tide]

We've had a chat and decided to allow everyone to make threads in the public channels and see how that goes so now if you want to have a long conversation about IR3 you can make a thread in the appropriate channel.

[copper flint]

if true that is probably adequate

[past pecan]

Am I the only one that's missing the Subreddit channel? It feels like no one else has even noticed it's gone.

[gleaming wolf]

that kind of confirms how little people were actually using it

it didn't really offer anything different than just browsing the subreddit by new anyway

[balmy prawn]

I am already appreciating this. Definitely feeding my habit of arguing on the internet for longer than I should.

[tender flare]

the quick questions & question forum vanished for me, discord suggested "some" of them so i had to subscribe to the help category, there might be others that haven't realized it 👀

[plucky tendon]

That's why we made the announcement

[tender flare]

it didn't register to me that a new category got added, and discord only shoved the modded ones in my face

[past pecan]

And fortunately/unfortunately, I spent zero time answering posts on reddit yesterday. Needing to press F5 and notice a subtle difference in link color is something I am not going to keep doing on pc, and most assuredly not something I'm going to do from my phone. But I get it if no one else was using it.

I wonder how difficult it would be to set up that autopost in my own discord. Anyone know what bot was posting those?

[sage patrol]

It's not something I use but it must've been made for a reason right? Dunno why it'd be removed since the game has only grown over time.

[plain swallow]

Yeah, it's often hard to find the relevant server (use Google Search and pray), and in cases like IR3, it doesn't even exist.

[plain swallow]

Thanks! :)

[safe halo]

Why is #mod-dev-showcase a normal kind of channel? Wouldn’t it make more sense of it were like #1217403366796431380 ?

[tender flare]

can we use❔instead of ❓for the help category? the red color is very distracting

[flat monolith]

Thanks for posting the announcement, wouldn't have known to right-click --> show all channels otherwise (because it got reset for some godforsaken reason)

[gleaming wolf]

I felt as if the majority of #1217403366796431380 posts were going to be long form discussions about a single thing, so a "channel" would be good to have for each post

in contrast, I think #mod-dev-showcase is going to have a majority of quick posts that don't warrant discussion, like galdoc posting his minisembler art and such

if people do want long form discussion in #mod-dev-showcase over a long period of time, then they can create a thread off of their post

the other advantage with it not being a forum is that anyone can look at the channel and scroll back chronologically to see everything people are working on, instead of having to click/scroll through a bunch of posts

there's also #mod-dev-discussion if people just want to talk about something someone posted quickly, without creating a whole new "channel" for it every time

[quaint tide]

You’ll have to pick another emoji since that doesn’t work well in light mode

But I am happy to change it

[tender flare]

light mode? what's that

[past pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/deadbeat-light-mode-gif-24758217

People using light mode can't see that gif

[safe halo]

i get that, though you are gonna have to tell people "no talky" every other day or so :V

[gleaming wolf]

yeah I don't mind that honestly

once enough people know it won't happen anymore, if at all

[safe halo]

every other day might be a bit of an overstatement, but itll definitely come up like once every week or two

here's a lil bit from the se server

even when its right in the channel description >.<

[sage patrol]

Oh boy that channel is gunna have a lot of ghost messages. The channel name will be white but there won't be anything new there.

[gleaming wolf]

to be fair that is the SE server where people drop in constantly

and playing SE is much more common than making mods

so here I don't think it will be as bad

[covert ridge]

I started to think I was going crazy until I check #announcements

[finite juniper]

Switched to Light Mode out of curiosity, could see the gif just fine.