#Can we promote a Discord server in #project-launches?

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shrewd pendant
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I created a Discord server where a bot shares every new Fab product release. I think it might interest a few folks here (especially in #fab), I just use it personally to get a feed/notifications of new releases, and I thought it may be worth sharing.

Looking at the rules, we have rule 8, which says

Use [...] the Community Creations category for self promotion
But also rule 7
No [...] unsolicited Discord invites

So I'm wondering: can we promote another Discord server in the Community Creations category? Or is this not allowed, period? I'm fine with either, I'm just asking as to avoid confusion.

tranquil patio
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Generally speaking, no. Since these are your customers you're talking about that would find that information useful, perhaps marketing directly to your user base is more appropriate and letting them know you have a discord for that purpose would be useful to them. Though the general population here on this server not so much. Thank you for asking ^_^

shrewd pendant
# tranquil patio Generally speaking, no. Since these are your customers you're talking about that...

I think there's confusion: I'm not a Fab creator. I'm a Fab customer, and I buy a lot of things over there. As such, I like to have a feed with all the new releases (not related to any creator in particular, just everything Unreal), so that I can sort what's interesting and what's not over time, instead of having to go through pages and pages of unhelpful search results.

I don't have any customer nor do I plan to have, I don't have a user base nor do I plan on having one. I just needed a feed with the new Unreal products on Fab, and now that I have one, I thought it might be of use to others.

If that's still not allowed I have no problem with that decision, I just want to explain my case as clearly as possible. Thanks!

tranquil patio
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I see I see, you're correct, I did misunderstand. Thank you for the clarification. Let's get some feedback from the community as they see this thread, and the other staff members, and see where it goes. I'm not immediately opposed to it, product curation has value, but going to wait for more voices before a decision is made. Thanks!

quaint halo
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I can see arguments for both side.
On one hand, discord links for this sort of thing could be super useful, and it would also be useful to be able to post links to say, benui's discord and such.

On the other hand, greenlighting discord links means greenlighting them all, so now every post you run across in #1054845120236757103 is going to be everyone and their grandma attempting to foster a game community off the back of here, which is going to get annoying quickly.

dusk kettle
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Yeah I agree with ACuppaTea it's all great until people just abuse it constantly it's a tough one

gusty lance
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I'd rather just have the new releases dumped on this server in #fab 😛 But that might get very spammy.

shrewd pendant
gusty lance
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A thread it reports to in #fab might be neat. Save spamming the main channel. You can opt out by just muting it.

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A forum channel would be best.

urban parcel
tawdry beacon
shrewd pendant
# tawdry beacon Is that an off the shelf bot or something you wrote? If you wrote it, is there a...

The bot is just a Python script that needs a Discord webhook where it sends new updates. The code is here, though pretty undocumented (but it's less than 200 lines). Just give it the webhook URL, remove the Twitter stuff, hook that to a cron job and you should be done.

The idea behind the Discord server was also to send those messages on an Announcement channel, that way people could just subscribe to it on their own server (or however that feature works, I don't really know). But I'm not sure that actually works, I'd need to look into it (it seems new messages aren't actually pushed to subscribers, something on Discord's side of things).