Time to move the forums to Discord

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We are already in 2023 and still using old forums for games. CCP should strongly consider shutting down this forum and moving everything to Discord.

Pro’s

  • Save money
  • Save time
  • Easier to use
  • Cater to the entire community

Con’s

  • No cons

Hopefully everyone can agree on this.

Paija

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Incorrect.

Until Discord brings out a version of Discord that can be considered for Business use. (Dictating data residency and location, SLA, quality of services, and many more) No business in their right mind would do that.

I would push my company to Discord if they had a Business version that I can look at and like. Because I hate Teams and Slack with a passion. Until then, I will boost my own private server for personal use.

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I don’t know, while I do like Discord there are times when I cant find what im looking for whereas a forum post is great for a few things

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  • No more trolls.
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Ccp does have a discord for eve online and they are active there

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I can think of some cons already.

Cons:

  • discord is not searchable from internet, which means people always need to repeat the same questions instead of using a search engine
  • discord is a real-time communication tool, unlike a forum where threads are able to be active for months, years even

While discord has some advantages too, it cannot replace the functionality of a forum.

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You’re late to the party, and have misunderstood the use of topic-based forums vs. a chat app.

Check it out for yourself, invite all your friends!

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Absolutely not catering to me.

While I use discord for voice communications it is not a forum substitute.

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Except to the people who dislike discord.

Another game that I enjoyed playing had a forum I participated on and contributed to for years.

They then moved to discord only to save costs. That was the moment I stopped engaging with their community.

Game was enjoyable though. Was, because it recently died.

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Didnt you know, searching is too hard. Lol

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What I enjoy about forums is that I can get my EVE questions answered by some post made on the old forum in 2007.

Discord cannot do that, as it is not searchable with search engines, and if it was, the unstructured chat channels make it useless for that purpose.

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I agree, ive even searched and helped find answers from the old forum that are still relevant to the game today.

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Discord, that’s nothing like a good old fashioned forum where people can actually debate and reason - and the rest of it.

It’s not like ccp encourages the use of its forums currently:

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Yep, posted today. Nope, no official feedback thread. I’d like to have a discussion on “color books in space”, and “yay, finally crayons”, and “we ran out of design ideas, so you be creative now, and use up those popular EverMarks for your space crayons”. Sadly, there is no feedback thread on that topic. Which is not to say that someone won’t make a thread about it, and we can be harsh and passionate and caring and involved at the same time … without having to verify your phone before you’re allowed to pipe up.

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discord
noun

  1. disagreement between people.

forum

  1. a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

No, I think me likes forum better

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I see you haven’t yet hopped on the Eve Discord.

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The question could be clarified. There is already an official discord server.

Therefore : Closed

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