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Sam Rose
Sam Rose

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dev.to Discord server?

Has this idea been explored? I think it could be good fun. :)

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Sam (NBTX) •

I like Discord but I wonder if, by nature, it's a good fit for dev.to - or at least the whole of dev.to?

I mean I can't help but consider how different the fundamentals of dev.to is to any kind of instant messaging platform...

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Sam Rose •

Yeah, for sure. It's worth thinking about. My thinking is that this community seems really positive and supportive, and it would be nice to get to know each other better. A post/comment system doesn't quite lend itself to that endeavour as nice as real-time chat does.

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Glenn Carremans •

I think a Discord server (or a Slack server) would be awesome, this can be used for lots of different things but of course moderation will be a huge task and they would probably need to assign community members to help them.

I could see lots of different channels:

  • General chat
  • Topics, for more a specialised chat or help
  • Jobs, people looking for a job or sharing job offers
  • Dev, (maybe private) for people working on DEV project and wanting to discuss PR's and or issues, could be split between into 2 channels (public/private)

This is something I am missing here if I want to ask a DEV team member something (or support) but find it not big enough for a Github issue or a mail.