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> we have seen 1000 people taking turns speaking Wow. Has anyone here been in a channel like that? I'd imagine it to be complete chaos. But I suppose it's pos

• wwwigham 8y ago
  Yeah. Typically it starts with a priority speaker giving a speech, ends with a Q&A moderated via text chat.
• Operyl 8y ago
  There's usually some sort of moderator, and a bot to facilitate turn taking, at least in the channels that I had these in :).
• crystalPalace 8y ago
  I've been in a couple channels with several hundred people. The admins handled it by shouting until everyone was quiet, enforcing one person speaking at a time, and swiftly muting, moving, or banning anyone who disobeyed. I'm not sure if Discord's API is flexible enough for a bot like that.
  • Operyl 8y ago
    The API is flexible enough for a bot like this, I'm contemplating opensourcing mine at some point! :)
    • zrobotics 8y ago
      Please do, it would be an actual act of charity! I've left a lot of interest i 8 servers due to the voice chat being clogged.
• Kagerjay 8y ago
  1000 people taking their turn speaking? It must be some political rally or reddit discord channel for a large national outbreak news story All I know is that official fortnite (discord's largest gaming server last year AFAIK) had serious amounts of disconnect issues, only on that server though Fortnite didn't have more than 100 battlerooms (4 players max) at any given point in time. There's a few battle royale scrimming servers with 70-100 players in one room for tournaments. But the rule is everyone needs to be mute & deafened though