I'm sure a lot of us didn't use it much because it was overwhelming and difficult to follow sometimes, but I know that lots of people loved it, and I'm one of them.
Just feeling reflective and thinking about what lessons can be learned from the whole experience, what we can use going forwards for the betterment of our community, and what we think are things we want to build towards.
I'm so utterly proud of this community, many wonderful things happened on the discord and in the weeks after the sub was banned, so many people came together and worked hard for the betterment of their comrades, we've witnessed a glimpse of the power of our solidarity with one another, and I can't wait to see how far we can go.
I love you all, and you know I mean it <3
Random thoughts:
Never entering a megathread is the only way to use Discord. Extremely online cliques are poison and should have been scattered to the winds at inception rather than being given the megaphone for endless votes of no-confidence. #mod-feedback was a masterclass in tantrum politics and demonstrated the weakness of "the online vanguard" to shitty people who will not shut the fuck up. There were some good memes, I guess, but the format lends itself to cliquishness and personality cults. Whinging about "transparency" but not proposing or helping to create tools to make such transparency easier to realize is wrecker shit. Approximately 1% of users fundamentally do not understand that "discomfort" does not immediately make "conflict" nor make a place "unsafe". 90% of drama could have been defused with a 30 minute mute and a temporary struggle sesh channel to be nuked upon resolution. Abusing unpaid volunteer mods is fucked up. Sectarian distrust and assumptions of bad faith no matter how transparently innocuous the interaction was very offputting. People taking themselves seriously on gray gamer site should be derided; internet is not real.
Well said as usual Speaker :)