MFGG is entertaining again and I find myself spending more and more time there

What can we do to one-up our rival once again

make mw gay again

How much gayer can we be

How much gayer can we be

none. none more gayer

we could resume active development

let's make our own game development community with blackjacks and hookers

It's time




We must fuse back into MFGG

we need peanus on the boardes

hi

There's only one way.

Boku wa Chode.

honestly, killing game is our main driving force of activity; the discord has eaten most threads and the meaningful input we'd have because it's easier to go there

the option is clear, as the discord is a problem for killing game is well

we must kill the discord

honestly, killing game is our main driving force of activity; the discord has eaten most threads and the meaningful input we'd have because it's easier to go there

the option is clear, as the discord is a problem for killing game is well

we must kill the discord

i agree

I also hate the Discord.

Discord is definitely bad for the health of the board itself. IDK if that means the community takes a hit too, Discord is behind an invite so nobody can really see it until they join, whereas the board is public- maybe we're making the board less attractive by having most discussions on discord. (or maybe not, idk).

It'd be really good to chart out what the discord can do that the board can't and see what if anything we can do to get some of that magic if possible.

This reminds me, I recently came across Twist by the people behind Todoist. The short version is they tried out slack but a chat room environment for Work stuff ends up being a huge mess for a lot of different reasons (they have a good read here about that), so they ended up making their own slack-like tool that's a lot more like a forum. It'd be cool to try and re-think how forums work in a way like that too.

but I think the big thing is active development, even if it's just optimizing what we already have. We went big on the gimmicks here and when they get neglected I think it only makes sense activity dies down.

Mobile performance is something we really need because apparently I am the only person here who owns a phone that doesn't kill itself on MW. That's part of what makes Discord more attractive for a lot of members.

The thing with Discord/IRC is that it allows for faster conversation. We could, as a community, try to make it so that we only use the Discord for stuff that we want to talk about quickly and be done with it, and take the conversations that we don't want to "lose in the scrollback" back in here as topics that can go on for longer.

Mobile performance is something we really need because apparently I am the only person here who owns a phone that doesn't kill itself on MW. That's part of what makes Discord more attractive for a lot of members.

It's actually not just MW itself on mobile. The chat boxes are largely what is totally busted, and create fucking insane lag when you use them. Just browsing is fine, actually.

No idea why this is, mind you

its absolutely the discord because mw is basically just a splinter circlejerk community so of course people are just going to move to the instant gratification platform instead of the slow burn one

you could just

try to post better on the forums

This post was last modified: Jul 22, 2017 at 7:29 PM by Spritanium.

I think it'd be cool if there was some kind of discord integration, even if it wasn't automatic just something to bridge the gap between the platforms, like a daily recap thread of what went on in the discord today

The real issue lies in the fact that for shorter discussions, a chat is just a better format. Forums really excel when we want the discussion to last and/or we're trying to articulate really complex positions. I think the forum could do better if we had more surreal experimental threads, or themed threads like mario lore

Basically debates, forum games, and ironic roleplaying (i.e. not trying to have an actual discussion but instead trying to generate humor through a fake discussion, see mario lore thread) are the three last bastions of message boards; we must do whatever it takes to preserve them