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I [and household] are now in a similar situation. At first, students got to use what they were already use to, but when the pandemic got painful and everybody
by O_H_E 5y ago
I [and household] are now in a similar situation.
At first, students got to use what they were already use to, but when the pandemic got painful and everybody flooded to online, thing went crazy.
Discord is freaking enormous in that area rn. Servers for High school classes, university cohorts (ie. CS'24), university programs (ie. Electrical Engineering), There is even a course I am taking at uni where we have an official server with the teaching team, profs, auth with uni credentials, and a freaking ad-hoc ticketing system.
It is bonkers how much systematization is done through these bots.
- hemloc_io 5y agoHaha love how people have rediscovered the functionality and joys of IRC and the like!
- holler 5y agoTotally... If you enjoy the text/irc aspect, I welcome you to check out https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im, a new realtime public discussion site very much inspired by growing up using aol chat/irc/icq/aim and others. I think we live at an amazing juncture of technology and ideas, where excellent communication software like irc that was always limited by it's own access requirements (install something, client, server, huh?), can now be made accessible to the masses, unlocking and hopefully creating entirely new experiences for people to enjoy! I'll be doing a livestream on AWS Twitch on Thursday discussing Sqwok.im if you're interested check it out.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoOr, if you enjoy the text/irc aspect, irc is still very much a thing!
- holler 5y agoCertainly agree! but it's still limited in use by design.. with Sqwok I'm trying to build something that anyone can use without any technical knowledge at all - Just open the url. I'm on freenode daily :D
- indigodaddy 5y agoWow, I visited the site. This is a super cool idea/concept! I hope it takes off and good luck!
- holler 5y agothank you! appreciate the comment
- akamaozu 5y agoSqwok looks amazing :)
- holler 5y agothank you! let me know if you have any questions
- remram 5y agoOne thing that would probably be welcome is some builtin support for threads. On the Python discord for example, there is a system of help channels which get assigned to the first person talking in it and returned to the pool after 30min of inactivity or once the problem has been solved. A bot keeps a few channels in a "free" pool, marks some as "occupied", and moves the surplus to a "dormant" section for UX purposes. Newcomers often get confused and ask questions in already-occupied channels, etc. Bots make this possible but it's never as good as the threading that exists in Slack or Zulip. I'm sure any sizeable organization (like a University) is running into this as well.
- ed312 5y agoPersonally I think threads ruin conversation flow. If you want to have an in-depth conversation about a topic limited to a few people, you should either open up another channel or do a DM. Just my opinion, but I hate Slack threads and love Discord's system.
- anticensor 5y agoThat is impossible in Discord as up to 250 channels per guild are permitted at a time.
- remram 5y agoThe point is not to break a single conversation into multiple threads, it is to split a single conversation away from the other conversations happening simultaneously in your #help channel. Effectively creating a channel, without having to bug a mod to get a new channel for your 5min conversation.
- lmm 5y agoSlack became a much worse experience when they added full threads IMO. Discord's new approach of allowing you to reply to a specific message, but not outright fork the channel, is a much better compromise.
- judge2020 5y ago
- anticensor 5y agoHow would you cope with 100 guilds limit?