Discord introduces Forum Channels feature
Discord is giving channel owners a new way to organize conversations and keep new voices from getting lost in the shuffle with Forum Channels.
When it comes to conversation, linking up, and sharing common interests, Discord is one of the prime applications in the social field right now. Whether for business, gaming, hobbies, or other interests, it serves its communities in a way other services simply don’t at the moment. Discord is growing its conversational toolkit too. Forum Channels have just been introduced, and with them, Discord channel owners will be able to organize special interest topics in their space while keeping voices from being buried in rapid-fire live conversations.
Discord announced the release and implementation of Forum Channels on its app with a blog post and explanatory YouTube video on September 14, 2022. The purpose of Forum Channels is to help better organize conversation and give users new options for engaging in topics without being drowned out if a channel is popular and has a lot of folks talking regularly.
“Forum Channels create dedicated spaces for each new topic of discussion,” the post reads. “You’ll be able to see everything people are chatting about before you jump in, allowing you to engage in an existing discussion —or start a new one — without worrying about breaking up or getting in the way of other ongoing conversations.”
Discord goes on to share that not only will Forum Channels give channel owners better ways to organize and keep conversations going, but it will also give them new moderation tools that will help to keep those conversations civil. Automod has been updated to aid in filtering out unnecessary and perhaps even problematic comments and inputs. Moreover, a new suite of moderation options applies specifically to Forum Channels. In theory, it should ensure that Forum Channels are also a safe and effective place to discuss whatever niche category you want to within the confines of the server you’re on.
With Discord also having recently integrated voice chat on Xbox, it will be interesting to see what comes next for the platform. Stay tuned for more Discord coverage as updates are revealed, right here at Shacknews.
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replyTJ Denzer posted a new article, Discord introduces Forum Channels feature
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Discord has forums now:
https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-conversation-
and we've come full circle!
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lol might need to make a shacknews discord bot and just do all my shacking within Discord.
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I think a lot of people go to discord for the community chat, and I think it will be used quite a bit
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I'm down for a competitor to reddit.
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After thinking about it a little more I think this makes a ton of sense. Lots of Internet personalities have built very large communities centralized around Discord.
This lets them have a place that people can have less ephemeral discussion and it's available in a place where their community already resides and is incredibly active without having to pay additional hosting costs or send people to a separate application or website.-
Right. For example the Tested discord has a bunch of channels where people talk about projects and stuff, same with Brad and Will's Tech Pod. Forums would lend themselves well to that kind of thing.
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There are also a lot of channels dedicated to just posting information and never meant to be replied to.
For instance, I'm in a gaming discord where they play a lot of modded games and there are tons of channels that just have instructions sets for setting up mods or gameplay rules.
D&D players will also find this useful and... Holy shit I just realized how much piracy can be done with these forums and a bot lol-
The more I think about it the more I think the Forums with a bot would be a good way to carry PC information in TTRPGs that can be integrated with a bot / transferred back and forth from DnDBeyond and a VTT.
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Huh didn't know about this.
https://i.imgur.com/iJ7vvRn.jpg
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whoa, weird. I guess that's neat?
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Maybe it's so folks who can't own a switch can get part of the experience?
Actually this is cool as fuck for all the cross console multiplayer games.-
oooh, good point on the cross-console thing!
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Oh. They're functionally just threads with a new entry UI lol
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should have just licensed the shacknews.com chatty tbh
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Maybe I'm spoiled, but I would expect a forum to be threaded in 2022. The "This is just a chat room but we pretend that it's going to stay on one subject" kinda thing isn't very interesting or useful to me.
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I would say the majority of visited forums these days are threaded. Just look at Reddit.
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Yeah I'm guessing they are just starting simple so there's less to break and less new UI stuff and if it seems like it's needed/wanted they can roll out more over time.
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