jcsnider Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 I understand that this is going to be an unpopular decision but I have decided to close down the official AGD Discord server and remove the ad for it on the sidebar of our site.  This decision has not been made lightly, I understand that there are about a dozen users who routinely check the discord channel or chat there and even more who have signed up while it has been available.  As an owner and one of the mods here at AGD there are just too many complexities to justify keeping it around: Discord is rarely or never used for voice chat. This means 95% or more communication is shouting/text chat. We already have a shoutbox on the site. Discord is taking away from site activity and vice versa. Discord is unlinked from the forum database Membergroups are not kept in sync and have to be manually updated. Usernames are often not the same. Bans/Warnings are not carried over. Discord is completely unmoderated. No one on our admin/mod team uses Discord, and asking them to moderate the site is already too much. Trying to moderate two different shoutboxes simply isn't fair to our team and it would only be more work as the site grows.  All that said we are gonna close the AGD Discord server and move on. We are going to keep it open/available for about a week and we will close it on Saturday November 12th.  We are hoping that this gives our Discord users time to process this change and add friends or come up with alternate ways to contact those you'd like to stay in touch with  Moving forward we encourage all of our Discord fans to keep chatting with us. The shoutbox is open 24/7 on our home page https://ascensiongamedev.com after you've been a member for 2 weeks.  Best, JC Mcadams, Kibbelz, Grizzy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SneakBug8 Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Please, don't. If u want, i can moderate Discord, but don't remove it, because i can't check ur website every hour and i (not only me) get news only from Discord channel. Phenomenal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranqe Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 About time, it was really annoying how it split the community up. Kibbelz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varinyc Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 United again at laaast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelFox Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 I agree with this change, with a small community it is best to keep everyone to one place. Â Â Also the reason why I hate Map DLC in video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giligis Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 23 hours ago, SneakBug8 said: Please, don't. If u want, i can moderate Discord, but don't remove it, because i can't check ur website every hour and i (not only me) get news only from Discord channel.   This is EXACTLY why we are shutting it down. This was your first post on the forums, we are trying to stear away from splitting the community, we have a shoutbox, in which I believe we are removing the 2 week period in which you cant see it, so you will be able to talk there.  Phenomenal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SneakBug8 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 16 hours ago, yeroC said:  This is EXACTLY why we are shutting it down. This was your first post on the forums, we are trying to stear away from splitting the community, we have a shoutbox, in which I believe we are removing the 2 week period in which you cant see it, so you will be able to talk there.  It isn't my first post on forum Mcadams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giligis Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Oops your correct, I looked at your reputation  I sincerely apolgize Nonetheless, we still don't want to split the community!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcsnider Posted November 11, 2016 Author Share Posted November 11, 2016 Just a quick reminder for everyone about this. The Discord will be closed down here in a few hours. Feel free to goof off and make sure to add friends if you want to keep in touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcadams Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 The deeds been done. Good night sweet prince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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