I’ve started using Discord to hang out with an old friend, and it made me think it might be super cool to have a Beeminder community discord we could use to hang out. If I created one, would you be interested?
For those not familiar, here’s my newbie description: Discord is a service kind of like Slack that’s very popular with gamers as I understand. It lets you set up servers which you can think of as communities. You can chat one-on-one or with everyone in the server. It also has the ability to do group voice chat that automatically mutes everyone except when they are talking.
Yes! I would love to hang out in a Beeminder Discord server.
Sounds cool, not sure I’d really hang out, though.
I am neutral.
For some reason I don’t want this to exist at all, probably because I hate fun. >:(
I like the idea, but you really shouldn’t use Discord.
Discord has been slowly transitioning from a gaming-centric service to a much more universal one. Their website emphasizes how you can use it for anything from local clubs to global communities. Nearly every product/service I use has an official server now, and it seems to becoming more of a communication default than Slack.
My point being that a Beeminder discord server would be great!
Thanks so much for offering to set this up, Narthur!
Crazy idea: What if to be in the Discord you had to have a Beeminder graph for amount of time or number of messages sent in it? Either a do-more goal if you wanted to commit to staying involved, or a do-less goal if you were worried about getting sucked in and having it take up too much time.
Could it lead to more pointless or spammy messages than you’d really want to have there, for people facing a do-more beemergency? (Lookit me being the pessimistic one; do ignore me if you wish. )
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Ok, lots of ways it could go horribly wrong but I still think it would be pretty amazing. What if it were do-less only (you’d pick your max amount of Discording when you signed up) and it just automatically kicked you out before you derailed?
Discord does have a really robust API (docs) that people use to make bots do all sorts of things. I haven’t really looked into it myself but I think it’d be possible with a Beeminder integration.
@narthur It has flairs, which could operate as groups as special as giving special permissions, channel access, et cetera, or just to flair the person as special. Anything more swag-like is non-free. A bot could almost definitely add/remove flairs according to Beeminder APIs. Do I know how? No. But I’ve seen them do similarly complicated things, so I’m sure it’s possible.
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