Post by Nightmare on Aug 11, 2017 16:34:05 GMT -5
Hello everyone! Have I got an exciting announcement for you all today.
For years some members have complained that too much of ZV is reliant on activity in the chat room, and that you can't be a part of the everyday goings on in ZV without spending hours a day in the IRC chat. And while I don't fully agree with that assessment, there's some truth to it. Most of us don't spend that much time on the forum anymore, and it can be a bit of a commitment to spend time in the chat since you can't exactly check it whenever you want unless you're logged in constantly, which isn't that easy.
Our Discord server on the other hand has taken off in recent months, due in large part to the RP but other factors have influenced it as well, and it's become part of my daily routine to check Discord a couple of times a day at least, which is super easy now that I can do that on my phone. Discord is a unique experience that sits in between the forum's ease of access and the IRC chat's instant communication. We've even toyed with the thought of switching the chat over to Discord from IRC, but there are too many reasons not to do that.
And then Aerin hit me with a brilliant question the other night: "Could it be possible to make a room on the ZV Discord that would let you view the chat?"
And so I did a bunch of research and then cracked a whip at Ed (who deserves the credit, he did all the actual work), and now we've been able to do just that! Through a pair of bots that sit in on our Discord server and IRC channel, we're able to effectively put the chat on Discord, and allow people who use Discord to view and interact with the chat without logging into IRC. You can't use all of the commands from Bob and Phil correctly through Discord (yet) but you have the luxury of checking in on the chat and reading up, as well as communicating with it whenever you want.
You can join in the fun by joining our Discord Server by clicking this link. Now you can choose to access the chat via IRC like we always have, or Discord if that's easier and more preferable!
Please leave your thoughts in this thread as we work to improve this new feature.
For years some members have complained that too much of ZV is reliant on activity in the chat room, and that you can't be a part of the everyday goings on in ZV without spending hours a day in the IRC chat. And while I don't fully agree with that assessment, there's some truth to it. Most of us don't spend that much time on the forum anymore, and it can be a bit of a commitment to spend time in the chat since you can't exactly check it whenever you want unless you're logged in constantly, which isn't that easy.
Our Discord server on the other hand has taken off in recent months, due in large part to the RP but other factors have influenced it as well, and it's become part of my daily routine to check Discord a couple of times a day at least, which is super easy now that I can do that on my phone. Discord is a unique experience that sits in between the forum's ease of access and the IRC chat's instant communication. We've even toyed with the thought of switching the chat over to Discord from IRC, but there are too many reasons not to do that.
And then Aerin hit me with a brilliant question the other night: "Could it be possible to make a room on the ZV Discord that would let you view the chat?"
And so I did a bunch of research and then cracked a whip at Ed (who deserves the credit, he did all the actual work), and now we've been able to do just that! Through a pair of bots that sit in on our Discord server and IRC channel, we're able to effectively put the chat on Discord, and allow people who use Discord to view and interact with the chat without logging into IRC. You can't use all of the commands from Bob and Phil correctly through Discord (yet) but you have the luxury of checking in on the chat and reading up, as well as communicating with it whenever you want.
You can join in the fun by joining our Discord Server by clicking this link. Now you can choose to access the chat via IRC like we always have, or Discord if that's easier and more preferable!
Please leave your thoughts in this thread as we work to improve this new feature.
