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Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by dorchadas »

WorldMaker wrote: post #136
dorchadas wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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 active users, which is probably why I would consider it small.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

They are charging $75/month for private threads, I understand they need to make money but that's a lot of money for small community servers. I own a support server and was excited for threads as they would allow me to pop out a private chat in the server to handle things rather than speaking in public or direct messaging the person, so this price point sadly makes this feature not very useful to every server I am currently in.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

#164

Post by erichdongubler »

binarymax wrote: post #28

The ideal thread implementation is in Flowdock (which not many people have heard of or use), but it's really the best of both worlds. Everything is a single stream of messages, and you can optionally group things as threads. There is a really nice blending of the two. Here's their implementation and you can see how well this works in practice. http://blog.flowdock.com/2017/08/31/the-1-customer-request-h... Far far be…

Hmmm, I wonder how Flowdock's threading implementation compared with Zulip's?

Re: Discord Launches Threads

#165

Post by eudoxus »

uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #162

They are charging $75/month for private threads, I understand they need to make money but that's a lot of money for small community servers. I own a support server and was excited for threads as they would allow me to pop out a private chat in the server to handle things rather than speaking in public or direct messaging the person, so this price point sadly makes this feature not very useful to every server I am cur…

$75 is a notable monthly fee for this, but its also important to remember all the other stuff that comes with Level 2 Boost for a server, and that its not a sole cost just for threads.

As for managing a support server and the channel clutter, have you used any of the various "Support/Ticket" bots for discord. TicketTool[1] is probably the most popular. I've used it, and its pretty nice.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with either Discord or TicketTool, just opinions.

[1]: https://tickettool.xyz/

Re: Discord Launches Threads

#166

Post by kibwen »

erichdongubler wrote: post #164
binarymax wrote: post #28

The ideal thread implementation is in Flowdock (which not many people have heard of or use), but it's really the best of both worlds. Everything is a single stream of messages, and you can optionally group things as threads. There is a really nice blending of the two. Here's their implementation and you can see how well this works in practice. http://blog.flowdock.com/2017/08/31/the-1-customer-request-h... Far far be…

Hmmm, I wonder how Flowdock's threading implementation compared with Zulip's?

The Rust developers largely use Zulip as an IRC replacement, and I find its UI to be excellent for my use cases: keeping up with advances to conversations that happened while I wasn't present, fully ignoring conversations that I'm not interested in, and focusing on individual conversations that are happening in parallel. An extremely good experience for such a thoroughly-distributed operation. The only downside is the slight friction for extremely minor conversation; it's good to have side channels just for idle, non-topical chitchat, which isn't a great fit for the Zulip UI.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

#168

Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

eudoxus wrote: post #165
uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #162

They are charging $75/month for private threads, I understand they need to make money but that's a lot of money for small community servers. I own a support server and was excited for threads as they would allow me to pop out a private chat in the server to handle things rather than speaking in public or direct messaging the person, so this price point sadly makes this feature not very useful to every server I am cur…

$75 is a notable monthly fee for this, but its also important to remember all the other stuff that comes with Level 2 Boost for a server, and that its not a sole cost just for threads. As for managing a support server and the channel clutter, have you used any of the various "Support/Ticket" bots for discord. TicketTool[1] is probably the most popular. I've used it, and its pretty nice. Disclaimer: I am not affiliate…

Yeah it does seem to be a problem with the "bundled perks" approach to monetization, if I only need one of the features in the high tier bundles I need to pay for it all to get it. It's less of a genuine complaint and more of a "oh well" reaction to it.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by patricklorio »

Finally! I've been using Discord as a place to field support issues for playit.gg and it's becoming a big burden now that we have ~800 active users. I've started stepping back and letting community members help eachother out as it's been too crazy for me to manage. With threads I might actually be able to help people again :).

Re: Discord Launches Threads

#170

Post by TheFreim »

VRay wrote: post #128
cjsawyer wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d gladly share that info with my gaming friends, but on not on professional/work servers

It wouldn't be a problem, except that Discord takes over your fucking computer and doesn't let you sign into different accounts via private browser windows when you have the client running Another problem with Discord is that its anti-spam measures are making it harder and harder to create an anonymous account There's no point in having an anonymous Discord account if you have to use the same account for everything i…

> doesn't let you sign into different accounts via private browser windows when you have the client running

What do you mean here? I have multiple discord accounts that I have logged in at once. One on the client, one in browser window, and another in a private window, working just fine.

> Another problem with Discord is that its anti-spam measures are making it harder and harder to create an anonymous account

Haven't made an account in a while, what has changed? Used to take only a couple minutes to get an account up and running.

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