Write.as/WriteFreely Community Discord!

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Hello, Community!

I’m here to pull the trigger on the Discord server I’ve wanted to create with you for just about as long as I’ve been around. This project means a lot to me and I’d like to contribute in a substantial way.

I also know that I’m almost certainly going to need help doing so, so the primary purpose of this first post is to ask that anyone interested in moderating/administrating/otherwise contributing please contact me here, via Email, or even by phone if you’d like: +1 (573) 823-4380.

My apologies if you came to this post looking for an invite… It shouldn’t be very long at all (as in, two weeks at most.) In establishing this buffer period, I am working to avoid the common mistake (which I have made) of distributing invites to a space which is still being configured.

If you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, Discord themselves have published a handy landing page about their platform as a collaborative space for open source communities.

If you’re familiar with Slack, I wrote a brief explanation of why I chose to use Discord in its place for my little media company.

For the record, I want to do this with as close to zero labor required from the team as possible. I intend to contribute as much or as little as the community decides I should.

(Also, I did run this by Matt today, if you were wondering.)

I hope to hear from you soon! Thank you!

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Invites

Well folks, that didn’t work hehe. I’m going to go ahead and open the server to invites.

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@DavidBlue , I apologize, but I am unclear: what is there that isn’t here?

With abandon,
Patrick

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Please don’t apologize! I actually can’t think of a better question to ask.

I suppose the fundamental difference between these forums and a Discord server is a sense of real time, if that makes sense. Ultimately, it’s a chatroom where people can just be.

I’m not sure if it’ll help but I can tell you my personal motivation for launching a WriteFreely community Discord server centers around a desire to be in a live space with other users. Exploring the rationale of that desire is a bit too existential of a task, but I hope that makes sense.

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Thank you, @DavidBlue. It funny, because I like this for it’s not being real time, so it’s more akin to analog letter writing. Grin. Enjoy!

With abandon,
Patrick

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Thanks! This is exactly what i have been searching fopr. Thank god someone made a discord server where i can discuss my problems openly without having to post on this discuss page. The closest thing to this discord server i had was from discordserverlists but im so glad someone finally made a discord for writefreely.

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Karen,

I appreciate your excitement, but unfortunately I’ve more or less abandoned the Discord due to lack of activity. I was about to try a Telegram group instead. (My arguments for Telegram over Discord can be found here if you’re willing.) Let me know what you think.