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I kind of feel similar. I already thought that the Replies feature was a better compromise for a chat room than Slack's threads (which I hated because so much c

I kind of feel similar. I already thought that the Replies feature was a better compromise for a chat room than Slack's threads (which I hated because so much conversation would just "disappear" from channels only to find out it was still happening in a thread from days or weeks before), but I'm also in several Discords that migrated from Slack and I know how many of my friends have been complaining that they missed Slack style threads for whatever reason. I'm going to give this a shot a bit: an in depth reading of this blog post has given me some appreciation that Discord is trying to keep it better than Slack's. They have moderation mentioned front and center, so that feels good to me that they kept it strongly in mind. I also like that they will be visible in the channel list as "sub-channels" and that they will auto-archive with a time limit (defaulting to 24 hours to start). Those two things do try to address things I disliked about Slack's implementation, so I'm hopeful to give it a shot. Maybe my remaining criticism here is I think I'd prefer the default time limit to be something smaller and related more directly to activity. Maybe something like "after an hour or maybe two hours of silence" to keep them to "active conversation sidebars" only. I also don't like that currently changing the time limit is a Level 2 Boost server feature if I wanted to explore options on smaller servers I control/moderate. On smaller servers your main option is just to turn them off entirely. (Though I sort of understand that it is a Level 2 Boost because from their perspective servers are going to want to increase the time limit as a perk. I wonder if they could make it free to decrease it, if it's not a "perk".)

dorchadas 5y ago
> They have moderation mentioned front and center, so that feels good to me that they kept it strongly in mind. What's annoying about this is it was sprung, default on, with no warning. I'm a mod (not the owner) of a server that got them, and we weren't given the permissions to disable them from @everyone, only the admin can do that at first. And he's not currently been on because of time zone differences. Which means it's just an easy open vector for someone to come in an raid and just cause chaos. They should've had it off by default, at least for a few days to let server owners experiment and play around with it.
- WorldMaker 5y ago
  They've given that choice to servers that are labeled "Community Servers" at least (giving them until mid-August before it is forced on by default) which will help some of the largest servers, but yes they maybe should have given that a wider option to the medium/smaller servers too.
  - dorchadas 5y ago
    Yep, we're a small server (~2700) that just randomly had it turned on. We've currently got about 10, just from random members thinking to test if they can create them. 10 that we can't delete. Thankfully nobody has tried to abuse it by naming any anything offensive, or mass creating them yet. Hopefully they won't before the admin gets back on when he wakes up.
    - WorldMaker 5y ago
      2700 users? I'd classify that as more than a "small" or a "medium" server myself. That's definitely in the range where setting it as a "Community Server" could be beneficial for a lot of other reasons.
      - dorchadas 5y ago
        What are these reasons? It's a pretty niche server, focusing on a specific language family, and I doubt the admin or the other moderators would really want it to be super available. We also have probably <20 really active users, which is probably why I would consider it small.
        WorldMaker 5y ago
        Yeah, 20 active users would still feel small. That's fair. I probably wouldn't recommend a Community Server with only 20 active users. To answer your question, though: Community Servers get a couple more security and safety features that help with moderation. They get a "Welcome Screen" for helping new users not feel quite so lost on first joining the server. Discord is generally better about notifying Community Servers of upcoming updates and slower about rolling out new features to them (such as Threads). https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-E...

dorchadas 5y ago

> They have moderation mentioned front and center, so that feels good to me that they kept it strongly in mind. What's annoying about this is it was sprung, default on, with no warning. I'm a mod (not the owner) of a server that got them, and we weren't given the permissions to disable them from @everyone, only the admin can do that at first. And he's not currently been on because of time zone differences. Which means it's just an easy open vector for someone to come in an raid and just cause chaos. They should've had it off by default, at least for a few days to let server owners experiment and play around with it.

WorldMaker 5y ago
They've given that choice to servers that are labeled "Community Servers" at least (giving them until mid-August before it is forced on by default) which will help some of the largest servers, but yes they maybe should have given that a wider option to the medium/smaller servers too.
- dorchadas 5y ago
  Yep, we're a small server (~2700) that just randomly had it turned on. We've currently got about 10, just from random members thinking to test if they can create them. 10 that we can't delete. Thankfully nobody has tried to abuse it by naming any anything offensive, or mass creating them yet. Hopefully they won't before the admin gets back on when he wakes up.
  - WorldMaker 5y ago
    2700 users? I'd classify that as more than a "small" or a "medium" server myself. That's definitely in the range where setting it as a "Community Server" could be beneficial for a lot of other reasons.
    - dorchadas 5y ago
      What are these reasons? It's a pretty niche server, focusing on a specific language family, and I doubt the admin or the other moderators would really want it to be super available. We also have probably <20 really active users, which is probably why I would consider it small.
      - WorldMaker 5y ago
        Yeah, 20 active users would still feel small. That's fair. I probably wouldn't recommend a Community Server with only 20 active users. To answer your question, though: Community Servers get a couple more security and safety features that help with moderation. They get a "Welcome Screen" for helping new users not feel quite so lost on first joining the server. Discord is generally better about notifying Community Servers of upcoming updates and slower about rolling out new features to them (such as Threads). https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-E...