Textpattern CMS support forum
You are not logged in. Register | Login | Help
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
Pages: 1
Discord
Do we have a discord channel? If not, why not?
Offline
Re: Discord
TheEric wrote #338743:
Do we have a discord channel? If not, why not?
We are trying to centralise the support in this forum as it is self-hosted and we can fully control it. Third party services are not as well visited by the community as some are blocked by firewalls, whereas others are just too geeky.
Yiannis
——————————
NeMe | hblack.art | EMAP | A Sea change | Toolkit of Care
I do my best editing after I click on the submit button.
Offline
Re: Discord
Bummer. I’m a huge fan of Discord.
Offline
Re: Discord
I like having the majority of the Textpattern content in one place. Especially since search engines seem to being sunsetting.
I don’t mind Discord as a social platform, but on tech-oriented servers, people tend to ask the same questions over and over. It’s exhausting. Nothing prevents you from setting up your own Textpattern Discord server, though.
Last edited by skewray (2025-01-12 16:35:37)
Offline
Re: Discord
I don’t mind discord either, but I only find it successful when there’s a critical mass of participants to keep the flow going. If a long time passes between questions and answers, a channel soon resembles just a string of questions.
There have been attempts in the past to set up a chat variant for Textpattern, and I think, in the end, it always gravitated back to the forum because a) we’re a small community and spreading us thinly across several platforms ended up diluting the already limited resources, and b) the forum seemed to provide more reliable long-term search results.
TXP Builders – finely-crafted code, design and txp
Offline
Re: Discord
Like some others, I vastly prefer to see most support and tips centralised in one place, such as here, the famously helpful Textpattern forum.
Nothing prevents someone from starting a Discord channel, I don’t think I’ll ever have a look. There are also Twitter/X and Mastodon channels.
Speaking of which, someone could also open a bsky.app channel… (avis au amateurs…textpattern.bsky.social is available).
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
Sand space – admin theme for Textpattern
Offline
#7 2025-01-13 09:13:04
- Algaris
- Member
- From: England
- Registered: 2006-01-27
- Posts: 565
Re: Discord
I find Discord overwhelming. Every time I log in it’s like getting hit by a firehose of posts. With multiple conversations all going on at the same time I find it hard to keep up and trying to find anything is nearly impossible. Infinitely scrolling and scanning a jumble of conversations doesn’t work well for me.
Forums on the other hand are neatly organised with everything in its own topic, when I want to find something I just go back to the topic it was posted in.
Offline
Re: Discord
jakob wrote #338752:
If a long time passes between questions and answers, a channel soon resembles just a string of questions.
e.g., old.reddit.com/r/textpattern/
There have been attempts in the past to set up a chat variant for Textpattern, and I think, in the end, it always gravitated back to the forum because a) we’re a small community and spreading us thinly across several platforms ended up diluting the already limited resources, and b) the forum seemed to provide more reliable long-term search results.
^^ This. We tried (a few times) with Slack back in the day, but it didn’t get traction for the exact reasons jakob outlined.
Last edited by gaekwad (2025-01-13 17:17:18)
Offline
Pages: 1