Tyranid Discord

[NidNoms]

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[yoritomo]

Seriously? You’re going to poach members of the hive to grow your discord? Bad form man.

[hiveoverall]

That is more than bad form, that is plain acting like a bad person. This forum is a good place to discuss lists and tactics (something which IMHO cannot be said about many forums / channels / whatever cyberspace exists), I don't see why a nid player would want to leave it for some lousy discord channel

[arsonfire]

I don't really see the problem personally. A discord server is more like an active chat room. It serves a slightly different purpose to the longer-term and archivable discussions that happen on forums like this one.

The only thing I'd say is that there's already quite a large tyranid discord server out there, so the new one linked here was redundant.

[Overread]

They serve different purposes but at the same time its very easy to get sucked into a discord and end up spending less attention on a forum - esp in these days where a LOT of new people on the net go as far as FB and no further. Despite forums being superior to most other sites (reddit is just a sort of messy forum) for long term discussion and preservation of conversations and information; they lack the ready access off FB and Reddit and the instant satisfaction of discord and other live chats

Preserve the forums!!

[purestrain]

Does it break rules? Or does it affect the bottom line?

Because I'm on discord while I type out things on this forum.

Also saying "Preserve the forums" is like saying "preserve the radio!"

[yoritomo]

Look, I'm not an idiot. I know that there are several other tyranid groups out there. If you're part of one of those other groups then good for you. I hope you learn a lot form them.

The thing is I run this forum, The Tyranid Hive. I don't care about those other tyranid pages, discords, or whatever else. Moreover, I don't go to these other tyranid sites and try to recruit members to The Hive. They've worked hard to build their communities and don't need me trying to point out better options to their members. Likewise, I expect other tyranid sites to respect The Hive enough to not come here and recruit out members. And as a moderator it's my job not to let other sites do this.

Could the members of The Hive follow two tyranid pages? Of course. In fact I expect that our members are smart enough to do this. I've been running this forum for longer than I'd care to admit and I am constantly amazed at the quality of the members the hive has.

[garg]

I feel the fact that the hive is an old fashioned forum is actually a bonus because it means the posters here are likely to be that bit older. I see a discord as a different use case but i could see stone people would drift there and not come back. That said I'm sure some would come the other way too.

[Kyokii]

Throwing my thoughts in, too.

I don't mind discord, either. But, I prefer the hive for discussions as I have a life and can't always reply in the real time that live chats often demand. Forums maintain lengthy topics, conversations can take as much or as little time as needed, and in a place like discord you can miss out on topics simply by the conversation moving on in the channel an hour or so before you see it.

[NidNoms]

Apr 26, 2021 19:55:19 GMT purestrain said:

Does it break rules? Or does it affect the bottom line?

Because I'm on discord while I type out things on this forum.

Also saying "Preserve the forums" is like saying "preserve the radio!"

i had no intention of degrading the Forum