#Looking to restructure this Discord - Ideas?

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sterile glade
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Back at this: 🙂

@here: So, I'm still mulling over how to change the Discord setup. Some things (topics) are longer-lasting and deserve a thread or a forum post, others are just a stream of conversation and is not, in the long run, that important.

Examples: I'd like to conduct discussions on aspects of the game, and I'd not want to see those just transiently disappear.

But the conversations in #creeperworld4 , for instance, are mostly transient, Focusing on a the here-and-now.

So ideally we should have the normal text channels. Are one for each game required? - I think so.
Then we should have a forum-channel for

  • older games
  • Current game (CW4)
  • General topics relating Knuckle Cracker
  • Support topics
    and then voice/streaming channels and the social channels?

Does this make sense?

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So, I'm looking to restructure the Discord. Everything is up for discussion.

Categories - (Currently WE have (visible to all users) #info, #games, #Support, #Social, et.

Since I'm planning to make #Support a forum, I was wondering if the SMF Forum structure would make sense.

That would have high-level Categories of

  - Knuckle Cracker
     - Announcements
     - Info
     - Support (forum)
     - all the rest
 - CW4
    - Discussion
    - Mapmaking-support ? (not good here)
    - Custom maps discussion (forum)
Older games
    - CW3
    - CW2
    - CW1
    - Chopraider
  - Social
    - Mapmaking chatter
    - General
    - Etc,

Clearly this is not ideal as yet, so ideas and suggestions welcome

I'm also planning to restore #general to open chat later today as the forums experiment winds down and we kick off phase 2 :)

faint ridge
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Seems quite good.

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What would happen to the current channels tho? They have a pretty good history of questions asked and answered already.

sterile glade
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What would happen to the current channels tho?

I guess "read-only" mode? At least for a while.

valid sun
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General thoughts:
Mapmaking channels should be located together.
Might be a good idea to have a forum channel for each game (?)
The thought being able to put things like 'impossible tormented space maps' or 'wallis tips' or 'Mark V seeds' in a common post that can be referred back to.

sterile glade
# valid sun General thoughts: Mapmaking channels should be located together. Might be a good...

Mapmaking channels should be located together.
Is that #mapmaking_support and #mapmaking_chatter ?
Might be a good idea to have a forum channel for each game (?)
Hmm,,, That's going to take some thinking. I see what you are driving at, but I don't know exactly how we'll go about it. We're only looking to "port" (if you can call it that) CW4-related content in order to learn and prepare for IXE (provisional name).

valid sun
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yes those 2 are the mapmaking ones

Here's an idea combining our ideas:
`- Knuckle Cracker
- Announcements
- Info
- Support (forum)
- all the rest

  • CW4
    • Discussion
    • CW4 Forum
    • Custom maps discussion (forum)
      -Mapmaking
    • Mapmaking Chatter
    • Mapmaking Support
      -Older games
    • Older Games Forum
    • CW3
    • CW2
    • CW1
    • Chopraider
  • Social
    • General
    • Etc, `