I hope it's ok to +1 this, because I feel the same way about pretty much all of it.
I know balancing a Discord can be really tricky modwise and I sympathise with that as someone who has had to do it myself a few times. There are always going to be people who are more comfortable and less comfortable participating with the community in that environment, but the same can also be said for Plurk and OOC comms as well, and as long as there's no particular requirement for any of them I don't see the issue with allowing it to continue.
I honestly feel the same as Pytho in this -- a lot of my energy for the game was coming from the Discord chat and all the plotting going on in there, and when it was sort of shut down out of nowhere (the deletion of most of the channels and the updated rules to say we can't post plot in there), it felt like getting a bucket of cold water dumped on my excitement. I feel a little like we're being blamed or punished for something, which, idk? If that's how it's supposed to be? So now every time I load up the Discord all I can think is that I need to be careful not to annoy anyone, which sucks.
But yeah, if there's a reason why I've sort of drifted away a little bit, that's what it is. I also have some comments about the plot in general which I'll stick in a separate comment to keep things ~on track.
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I know balancing a Discord can be really tricky modwise and I sympathise with that as someone who has had to do it myself a few times. There are always going to be people who are more comfortable and less comfortable participating with the community in that environment, but the same can also be said for Plurk and OOC comms as well, and as long as there's no particular requirement for any of them I don't see the issue with allowing it to continue.
I honestly feel the same as Pytho in this -- a lot of my energy for the game was coming from the Discord chat and all the plotting going on in there, and when it was sort of shut down out of nowhere (the deletion of most of the channels and the updated rules to say we can't post plot in there), it felt like getting a bucket of cold water dumped on my excitement. I feel a little like we're being blamed or punished for something, which, idk? If that's how it's supposed to be? So now every time I load up the Discord all I can think is that I need to be careful not to annoy anyone, which sucks.
But yeah, if there's a reason why I've sort of drifted away a little bit, that's what it is. I also have some comments about the plot in general which I'll stick in a separate comment to keep things ~on track.