and FUCK discord

true

we tried to have a zero tolerance policy on discord and it failed miserably

I tried only posting here and it was lonely rip

my thoughts as a relatively new (reluctant) discord convert

discord works well as a replacement for the chat thread, which seemed to be most of boyah activity anyway

discord is a lot worse for themed threads. it was nice having threads that you could go back to and know where the conversation would be focused. instead you often end up feeling like you're interrupting whatever everyone else is talking about if you want to talk about something specific

i think for the forum to actually work the site itself would need a LOT of love. boyah 2.0 was a failure and didn't introduce a single good feature (correct me if i'm wrong) and instead broke a lot of finely tuned, boyah-specific features. discord is a fresh piece of technology with a lot of niceties and i feel like there is really nothing special about boyah.net besides the emotes (which are also on discord lol)

i preferred the old boyah format and it is kind of sad to think that we may never get it back. the discord community is still nice and seems to bring in a lot more activity than the forum was bringing in (even pre-boyah 2.0) so it's not black and white imo

i think discord is just more conducive to having a greater amount of activity, the format of the platform itself just makes it way easier to have quick random convos about any little thing. it's similar to chat thread in terms of the types of conversation but just way more efficient and organised. it's like if the chat thread was instant with the messages taking up less space on the screen and you didn't have to load 50 pages of php generated content just to catch up on what people were talking about.

the forum at a glance just looks like the remains of a community that once was, on a site that isn't properly maintained anymore. the old school forum format with the slower paced more divided out convos has its own appeal i guess but idk what to talk about when it's so dead. like there would be more to post about if there were more posts, but there can't be more posts without posting..

just use both tbh

My other issue is that i still don't know who half the people on discord are

Like I didn't even know you were on it ikanaide lol

Huh I didn't realize he was on there either

Good point about the focused threads. Sometimes I come in too late and it feels bad to necro a topic and yeah other times you have something offtopic you want to talk about but you don't want to interrupt the current flow of conversation

But yea unfortunately the forum doesn't really work for discussion right now because only about 10 people check it

Quote from: strongbad on December 17, 2021, 08:43:26 AMMy other issue is that i still don't know who half the people on discord are

Like I didn't even know you were on it ikanaide lol

he is???

anyway my problem with the discord is that there are genuinely shitty people there that i really don't want to interact with at all

and the general humor style of the boyah discord seems to be stuck in 2007 with a lot of edgy bullshit with stuff like racism, misogyny, and bizarre "anti-sjw" discourse that teeters between ironic and genuine

it's fuckin stupid tbh and there's no real reason for me to ever say much in there when i have much better communities to hang out in. and that makes me genuinely miss when this forum was active after all the shitters were purged out

^^^agreed

we could be the change we want to see

I wouldn't be opposed to helping implement some site improvements

Yea I'm not sure why we had to send out notifications to everyone that makes conversations feel like you're on 4chan but pandoras box is open I guess

Wait when did we do that

I didn't realize boyah was so divided

Quote from: Samus Aran on December 17, 2021, 02:50:12 PM

Quote from: strongbad on December 17, 2021, 08:43:26 AMMy other issue is that i still don't know who half the people on discord are

Like I didn't even know you were on it ikanaide lol

he is???

anyway my problem with the discord is that there are genuinely shitty people there that i really don't want to interact with at all

and the general humor style of the boyah discord seems to be stuck in 2007 with a lot of edgy bullshit with stuff like racism, misogyny, and bizarre "anti-sjw" discourse that teeters between ironic and genuine

it's fuckin stupid tbh and there's no real reason for me to ever say much in there when i have much better communities to hang out in. and that makes me genuinely miss when this forum was active after all the shitters were purged out

ah, glad it's not just me lmao