SGM Official Discord? - A Proposal

beavis-fu · Oct 25, 2017

Do it, I use discord for all my voice chats, the whole reason I am never on TS anymore is because I have discord. The interface is more user-friendly, and it has more of a 'community' feeling than TS.

Edit: If you by any chance need testers add me on discord: beavis_fu, I am willing to test!

4sea · Nov 2, 2017

Toest · Nov 2, 2017

I think many many many more people would use discord. I would also really like to get important announcements on my phone!

Dr.Death · Nov 2, 2017

I'd use discord, also force I watched that whole video, I don't even know why.

Skyrossm · Nov 2, 2017

Dr.Death said: ↑

I'd use discord, also force I watched that whole video, I don't even know why.
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That's the linus tech tips effect.

opal where the heck is this i need to @ spam people

Nebula · Nov 5, 2017

+1 :-0

Circle of Psi · Nov 11, 2017

I'll love to have one

Dolph1n · Nov 18, 2017

What do y'all think about custom text colors for the upcoming server? It's definitely possible, and would make this seem a lot like shoutbox.

Circle of Psi · Nov 19, 2017

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What do y'all think about custom text colors for the upcoming server? It's definitely possible, and would make this seem a lot like shoutbox.
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Sounds good, a lot of discords have it, in order to tell whos rank is who and what they are etc.

Agent Knockout · Nov 19, 2017

Same opinion here!

Eventful · Dec 2, 2017

Opalium said: ↑

The Plan(?):
Now, to give you a better idea on what exactly we are discussing here, I figured the best idea would be to detail the general plan I have in mind regarding our Discord, should it be accepted. Hopefully with this in mind, you will be able to make up your mind.

THIS IS JUST THE IDEA. THIS IS NOT FINAL. AND IT WILL CHANGE ACCORDING TO YOUR FEEDBACK.
PLEASE DON'T TRIGGER YOURSELVES OVER THIS.

So, here it is: the SGM Discord project rundown.

Our Discord server will serve as the main hub for community members communication and interaction, both through text chat and voice chat.
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It will offer both public and private channels of both types, allowing users to dynamically set up their own channels for whatever purpose they wish, under certain restrictions:

There will be multiple public text and voice channels, and also channels dedicated to the games hosted by our community. They will be permanent, of course.

User-created channels will have a limit, to avoid flooding the server.

The user-created channels will not be permanent, and will automatically close after being unused for a period of time.
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The management of the Discord will be mostly automatic with the help of your best new friend, OpalBot.

OpalBot is a fully custom bot, written from scratch by myself, and tailored specifically for our needs. It's SGM exclusive, yo.

OpalBot will be responsible for things like channel management, user management, commands handling, permissions management, automatic moderation, and more.

I am currently considering adding more fun options to OpalBot, like music streaming, minigames, fun and silly stuff, and more. However, these will most likely only be added after the server launch to avoid delaying the project for too long.

One main concept I followed when writing OpalBot is to avoid the spam and annoyance other Discord bots usually cause. OpalBot is much quieter and is very unlikely to bother you unless you directly interact with it. Hell, it even cleans up after itself!
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Our Discord, with the help of OpalBot and some technical wizardry, will have special integration with our game servers. More details on this as we continue to develop the idea.
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The Discord server will be open for everyone to use.

However, to avoid spam, attacks and other nuisance, unauthenticated users will have limited access.

Limited users cannot create channels, and cannot use some of OpalBot's options. In addition, their chat will be restricted as well.

To authenticate yourself, you will need to link your Discord account to your forums account. This will be done through a new button on the forums, and once done will immediately set your permissions and lift any limitations.
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Our shoutbox will undergo changes as well. Currently there are two options:

The first option is to completely remove the Shoutbox, and replace it with a dedicated Discord chat widget, allowing direct chatting with Discord through the forums. This is the preferred option as it's cleaner, more stable, and much much easier to implement.

The second option is that the Shoutbox will be powered by the Discord server, instead of being a standalone module. This means that it will technically be a "window" into our Discord, and will simply reflect a dedicated text channel in the server - but will maintain the same look and interface it currently has. This will still include automatic moderation by OpalBot. I am less in favor of this one because it's far more complex and error-prone.
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TeamSpeak will remain operational for a while after the Discord launch. We will be monitoring its usage and see if it's influenced by the Discord server.

Should most people ditch TS in favor of Discord, we will most likely shut it down.

If Discord will not catch well and a significant amount of players will still prefer TS, it will remain online.

Woo. That's a lot of details. Like I said, this is the general plan, and is subject to change according to what you guys will suggest.

Now it's your turn.
Let's get into this. What do you think? Is it time for SGM to progress towards the age of Discord? Or is this not something we should look into? How is the plan I offered? Is it good? Bad? How can I improve it? What about TS and SB? These are all big questions.
Let's hear you out.

Have a great one, friends.
~Opalium

EDIT: Just to clear out some things:

OpalBot is not a replacement to our staff, but an addition. We will still have human moderation - our admins and mods (which thanks to Discord's flexibility can also help in moderating now, instead of just the admins like in SB right now). OpalBot will monitor and moderate for things like spam, illegal content and other issues like these, but it is not meant to come in place of the usual moderation. It's mainly there to both reduce the load from the staff and allow them to focus on the actual moderation, and to protect the server from trouble makers when staff are not immediately available (late night or mornings, for instance).
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Voice quality mostly depends on your distance from the server. Currently the base location will be US Central, as the largest portion of our players can benefit from this.
Discord allows instant location changing, so one idea I had in mind is to automatically rotate the server location between US Central and Europe when its peak hours for those regions. In other words: during the US daytime it will operate at US Central, and during EU peak day hours it will switch to Central Europe. Then it'll just cycle through those. That's just an idea though, and I don't know how well it will work. What do you think?
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I'm still checking our options for SB. It seems the second option I suggested is more wanted, and I will be researching in this direction, but I cannot guarantee what the final outcome will be. There's still a lot of work ahead so it'll take some time, but once I have more to tell I will.

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I would absolutely love to see a SGM discord!

Onion Wizard · Dec 27, 2017

+1 in favor of a Discord server.

Opalium · Feb 8, 2018

Brace yourselves...

DarkMage · Feb 8, 2018

I love you

Cash · Feb 8, 2018

Opalium said: ↑

Brace yourselves...

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SGM skype grroup confirmed?

Grimoire+ · Feb 8, 2018

Hype train incoming

Lion · Feb 8, 2018

Grimoire+ said: ↑

Hype train incoming
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HYPE

Zypther · Feb 8, 2018

HYPE

Toest · Feb 8, 2018

HYPE

Penius · Feb 8, 2018

HYPE

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