Is there a plan if this message board goes down?

[SuperLake]

I think the more open communication the better. Who cares if there's an alt on Reddit and Discord, if one goes down, at least we'll have backup

[Miss Martian]

I think the more open communication the better. Who cares if there's an alt on Reddit and Discord, if one goes down, at least we'll have backup

a voice of reason

[anjinash]

Oh, by all means create a Discord. It's not going to cost me any sleep. Just don't expect a 1:1 transfer if/when this board goes down. Certainly the same can be said of the subreddit. I do think it's worth noting, as a previous commenter did, that a Discord channel required an invite... and if you don't visit frequently enough you need to be re-invited. That could prove a difficulty as a replacement for these boards if these boards go down. In that case, you'd kind of need the subreddit to exist even to gain access to the Discord.

I don't think it's unreasonable to discuss the pros and cons of potential replacement locations.

[SuperLake]

Oh I didn't think Reddit or Discord would be 1:1 replacement, more like a temporary space till we recover or transition to another message board/forum.

The biggest takeaway from Pirates-Forum going down was there was no place where we could be informed of the latest updates and figure out a game plan of "where do we go next".

[tripletap006]

Oh I didn't think Reddit or Discord would be 1:1 replacement, more like a temporary space till we recover or transition to another message board/forum.

The biggest takeaway from Pirates-Forum going down was there was no place where we could be informed of the latest updates and figure out a game plan of "where do we go next".

Yeah I'm more on the Reddit side of things because Discord just seems like a mess (albeit a mess that some people really seem to enjoy) but any way you slice it, a "bad" backup plan is better than none at all.

[NexusWraith]

Oh I didn't think Reddit or Discord would be 1:1 replacement, more like a temporary space till we recover or transition to another message board/forum.

The biggest takeaway from Pirates-Forum going down was there was no place where we could be informed of the latest updates and figure out a game plan of "where do we go next".

While this forum was down, but after we started getting updates from the admins, I started to re-post them with a link on r/Piracy. Every post I made got immediately deleted by the anti-spam bot.

So, yeah, it would be nice to have a place to post or read updates where that doesn't happen.

[Miss Martian]

public discords dont require invites. theres even a Satellite of Love discord already. Where many of us sometimes watch new rifftrax together when they are released.

[maarkeeta]

i tried to attend some riff-related discord stuff recently but honestly I found it confusing and discord makes me feel like a merging of grandpa simpson yelling at a cloud & describing music. My phone is a mess of notifications, and whatever the stream thing I tried to attend was, I couldn't figure out how cast it in any way to my tv, and when I tried getting onto it on my computer I just gave up. I'm generally tech savvy and don't have these sorts of issues, but I definitely have a massive brain-blockage when it comes to utilizing discord, and I fully recognize this is a "me" issue, not a discord issue. That being said, I'm very happy people have that place if it is easy for them to manoeuvre. It's awesome when you find a place you can meld with in that way. I really wish I could as there's a few communities unrelated to riffing I'd also be part of, but I just can't "get" it.

During the big outage, I found myself repeatedly visiting a reddit page asking about the superbay outage, plus reloaded my superbay tab that i never close daily. I am not a huge part of any riffing community, but it was nice to see some familiar people over on Reddit being sad this place was missing. So if people do go and create a discord if this place goes down and doesn't come back, I hope someone casts a net over onto Reddit on occasion.

[Cephus]

Discord is a mess and I want nothing to do with it, frankly.  It's a big ugly, un-optimized chat web-app loaded up with more cheezy GIFS than an old MySpace page. It's a resource hog that's ugly and hard to navigate.  I genuinely don't understand why it's popular so I chock it up to me just being old.

Also frankly, I'm well aware my stance won't change anyone's mind either way and you're all gonna do it anyway... just be aware that a significant chunk of users simply won't follow you to Discord. Ever.

Let's just say that IRC was a hell of a lot better, back in the day.

[moondoggy1111]

During the Dark Ages I looked far and wide for other Rifftrax communities. I did find one on IRC. It's not pretty but it works.