TL;DR at the bottom.
This is going to be a bit of a grim/doomer vibe post, not related to the mod itself but related to this community as a whole. I've tried to make this short and not bother everybody with a wall of boring text...I have failed.
The short story is that recently discord as a platform became a relatively hostile place for its users and community servers. Several bad actors out there trying to get people or servers banned by reporting out of context messages for various reasons (most notably age related and pedophilic in nature). Discord does not care about the context of such actions and will just ban the users and nuke the server without any possibility of getting it back. On top of this discord seems to be more focused on adding as many useless features for their nitro plans as possible instead of fixing their damn platform.
So what's the fix ?
- First of all, a 2nd server was started on Revolt (https://rvlt.gg/7heRQKQg) a similar platform a few months ago, I will put it to use effective immediately and have already linked them together. This means that messages send on both platforms will be visible to everybody equally. If you want to join Revolt and ditch Discord as a whole without leaving the community now you can do that. Revolt already has a userbase of 100k with a pretty healthy ecosystem for bots and offers a lot more customization and privacy for its users than discord will ever do. I've already linked both platforms so no matter which one you choose you'll be connected with the community as a whole, you might've already seen this already in action.
- Secondly is a new forum (this one, hi) for this community (https://forum.pixelatedw.xyz). I know I know forums are old and I am old but this is not the old cluncky page-based forums you've known in the past. Think of this as more of a discussions platform than an old school forum, this is not meant to replace Discord or Revolt, but to serve its own purpose. Effective immediately theBug andSuggestions channels are on read only mode and have been moved to the forums. This move is also partially fueled by the forums feature of Discord being absolute crap...but I won't bother you with my rants about how much Discord sucks at these new features. The forum allows me to better manage and reply to suggestions and to handle support requests, be them bugs, crashes, or people not knowing how to install the mod. The forum will also be used as a 2nd place for official announcements regarding updates or more serious announcements such as this one. You will sadly need to sign in to make the most use of it, however I've configured it so that you can login using your Discord or Github accounts using OAuth2 if you choose to. You can freely read it without an account if reading is all you want. And yes its not only ok but encouraged to repost your things fromSuggestions over to forums, the old bugs can be left out as I've got them either fixed or noted. The home page of the Mine Mine no Mi mod got updated with the above links too just in.
- Thirdly a lot more security will be put in place on discord especially, I hate to do this...I really value the freedom of the server and I think (and hope) a lot of yall value it too, and having to take drastic measures such as banning links or deleting edited posts that contain links feels so extra and so bullshit, unfortunately I'd hate for this community to get nuked because discord says even more so at least temporarily more security will be put in place for everybody. (fyi, while revolt won't have most of these measure the discord still does, so messages sent on revolt might get deleted on the discord side but not on the revolt side)
Forums are not chats, and they'll never be, the forum is meant as a safe and local place for people to talk and share ideas in a more structured manner. Discord and Revolt are going to continue to be used as real time chat apps as before.
I don't want this to be a big sad hurr durr everything can get nuked any day type of post, however Discord, via their actions, made it extremely hard for me to have faith that everything will fine on their platform when every week there's a new exploit by malicious people to get your account or your server nuked for lolz (or money).
TL;DR: new revolt server bridged with Discord, new forum (this one, hi again) used for discussions, suggestions and bugs