Kevin Carr's Gloves 4416 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 08:17, Andrew said: tbh It might be handy as a backup but I wouldn't want us to change platform unless we really really had to, I like the old school-ness of this place and the format works for the relatively chaotic discussion style here. Discord would be a fuckin shitshow without a lot of pre-setup. While catastrophising today I have thought about this a lot and landed on the idea that if TT was dead I would rather build a completely new forum than move to discord or reddit or whatever. Expand This word has totally fucked my brain. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6501 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Discord is for active continuous mass conversation so the format wouldn't work as a replacement for here. Forums encourage longer form responses whereas discord is really just chat. But as a backup, I think it's a good idea. I had the same thought yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 46557 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 I propose our back up is the comments section on a specific video on xhamster. No sign up required, everyone knows where to go, free and easy to drop when things are fixed. We should pick something unlikely to be removed for copyright claims or whatever, so I’d suggest German Housewife Gets Split in Two by Romanian Plumber. (1993). 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 13003 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 I thought we used Reddit last time at least for news when the site explodes. I checked but clearly no one else remembered. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 5576 Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:19, RobinRobin said: I thought we used Reddit last time at least for news when the site explodes. I checked but clearly no one else remembered. 🙂 Expand It was largely out of necessity and no one liked it. I did think about it but I ended up posting on the Patreon and most of the members were asleep while I was fixing stuff so it didn't matter too much. As a note, you dont have to be a paying patron to see the patreon posts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 5434 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Must say the discords I am on are virtually identical to posting here in every way. I would guess that those having a bad issue are on very fast moving discords. Not a problem we have. The good thing about setting it up is everyone has a chance to get on whilst this place is functioning, rather than the old timers not ever being able to regroup if this place goes pop. Personally, I find the discord layout much cleaner and the fun we could have with the voice stage! Fish and gemmil could do presentations on Xg etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 13003 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:26, Christmas Tree said: Must say the discords I am on are virtually identical to posting here in every way. I would guess that those having a bad issue are on very fast moving discords. Not a problem we have. The good thing about setting it up is everyone has a chance to get on whilst this place is functioning, rather than the old timers not ever being able to regroup if this place goes pop. Personally, I find the discord layout much cleaner and the fun we could have with the voice stage! Fish and gemmil could do presentations on Xg etc. Expand 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawb 4780 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Be some proper rascal accents on the voice chat if we ever did use discord, I reckon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7573 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:11, Monkeys Fist said: I propose our back up is the comments section on a specific video on xhamster. No sign up required, everyone knows where to go, free and easy to drop when things are fixed. We should pick something unlikely to be removed for copyright claims or whatever, so I’d suggest German Housewife Gets Split in Two by Romanian Plumber. (1993). Expand This is a ridiculous idea. Surely we’d choose a Daniella Rush video ffs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 5434 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:29, strawb said: Be some proper rascal accents on the voice chat if we ever did use discord, I reckon. Expand Aye, @ewerk would obvs be a good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 46557 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:39, trophyshy said: This is a ridiculous idea. Surely we’d choose a Daniella Rush video ffs. Expand Thanks for the tip! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7573 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 That’s what she said. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 19768 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:26, Christmas Tree said: the fun we could have with the voice stage! Fish and gemmil could do presentations on Xg etc. Expand 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6501 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:26, Christmas Tree said: Must say the discords I am on are virtually identical to posting here in every way. I would guess that those having a bad issue are on very fast moving discords. Not a problem we have. The good thing about setting it up is everyone has a chance to get on whilst this place is functioning, rather than the old timers not ever being able to regroup if this place goes pop. Personally, I find the discord layout much cleaner and the fun we could have with the voice stage! Fish and gemmil could do presentations on Xg etc. Expand I like discord too but with an active community it can quickly become chaotic and I don't think you'd get as many distinct threads. You could turn on slowdown to suppress messages of course but I'm yet to see that be enacted in a way that isnt tedious. Also here you can browse a conversation at your leisure on a single topic. Discord you'd have a smaller group of channels meaning multiple simultaneous conversations all overlapping with each other. Some people would login and see they've missed 300 messages - they just won't read them, so conversations will become more focused on active participants rather than community discussion. I've been on discord for 8 years now, it's a great platform in many ways but I don't think it would be a suitable replacement for here. We'd lose members in the switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 13003 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:57, trophyshy said: That’s what she said. Expand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 5434 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 10:02, Rayvin said: I like discord too but with an active community it can quickly become chaotic and I don't think you'd get as many distinct threads. You could turn on slowdown to suppress messages of course but I'm yet to see that be enacted in a way that isnt tedious. Also here you can browse a conversation at your leisure on a single topic. Discord you'd have a smaller group of channels meaning multiple simultaneous conversations all overlapping with each other. Some people would login and see they've missed 300 messages - they just won't read them, so conversations will become more focused on active participants rather than community discussion. I've been on discord for 8 years now, it's a great platform in many ways but I don't think it would be a suitable replacement for here. We'd lose members in the switch. Expand As I said, I think you are probably used to fast moving ones, the main one I am on is very easy to click on, see the unread and work my way through. Also easy enough to duplicate sections as here and we certainly have no need for slow mode to be turned on. But simply, having it set up so everyone has a point to gather in a catastrophic situation is a good idea imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6501 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 You don't think ours would be fast moving?? It'd be wall to wall unfiltered, uninterupted Gemmill. Is that something you want to see 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6501 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 We've agreed to set one up for emergency use so I'll sort that in the next day or so. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 5434 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 10:26, Rayvin said: We've agreed to set one up for emergency use so I'll sort that in the next day or so. Expand Will this include us all being able to sign up for it so we are registered should we need to get on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 5434 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Actually it might be a good idea to host one of the next matchday threads on there to give everyone a chance to sign up and test it out. Anyway, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6501 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 10:47, Christmas Tree said: Will this include us all being able to sign up for it so we are registered should we need to get on? Expand Yeah I think it makes sense for people to join up ahead of any issues but it's obviously going to be at individual discretion. Just need to be thoughtful about the way we do it to prevent abuse/access from undesirables 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3961 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 07:34, Andrew said: Updates were put on the patreon. But aye a backup of some sort might be a good idea. Expand Isn't the reddit group from Ant's wobble still there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3961 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 07:48, Monkeys Fist said: I checked BBC news Expand That sentence from you has so many ambiguities. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 46557 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 12:11, sammynb said: That sentence from you has so many ambiguities. Expand Both interpretations were no help. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3961 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 20/04/2025 at 09:11, Monkeys Fist said: I propose our back up is the comments section on a specific video on xhamster. Expand See, this why I worry when you insist on checking BBC news! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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