Quarantine has happened. Shit happens, deal with it. It is difficult to replace Reddit - it has a sidebar with essential reading, flairs, endorsed contributors, and a place for discussion in theories, field reports, and sexual strategies.
A website can bridge the information gap that is caused by being quarantined. However this is 2018. Having mobile access is, at least for me, a big deal. A website, having to load into Safari/Chrome is not optimal - takes time and is not user friendly. Just try using reddit on Safari/Chrome and compare the experience to your favorite reddit app - it is a lot more chunky - harder to access messages, upvote, and save posts/comments.
I suggest an app called discord. It has great ease of use, and is a specialized app to make the user experience easy. You can ‘label’ users (much like tagging users with ‘Endorsed Contributors’). You can create a discussion room called ‘sidebar’, make it so users can’t type there, and pin our old documents, to effectively become the new sidebar. We can replace flairs with new ‘rooms’.
The biggest positive is that it is a hub for the community. Discords are seen as a companion to traditional mediums (ex: websites) and would complement trp.red
SlyGradient 5y ago
No, there are serious privacy concerns with Discord, that may cause people to get doxxed. So we do not have a Discord nor do we officially endorse one.
drakehfh 5y ago
What about a selfhosted instance of rocket.chat? It has end to end encryption. Also I can contribute to maintain the platform.
Edit: or we could use matrix.org.
ihateyouguys 5y ago
It seems like you have the means, knowledge, and motivation to do something about this idea.
teentrp2000 5y ago
I’m all in for something like this
JamzeNeu 5y ago
https://discord.gg/APJDMGp
Pope_Shea 5y ago
I'm not sure if a Discord server would do well for maintaining and enforcing the original view of TRP.
Mildly_Sociopathic 5y ago
There's already an IRC.
Besides, Discord will just ban.
[deleted] 5y ago
I’ve checked out the irc channel. It was dead when I went there. Its also not 1998. Wonder if mIRC is still a thing..
Main problem with irc is that it broadcasts your IP number, therefore you are easily doxxed & identified. You can run through a proxy to obfuscate your ip. Again not 1998 so I don’t have the lists of open proxies I used to have.
Privacy will be the first & foremost concern for a savvy trp consumer.
pretty_bread 5y ago
But can discord server handle over 10,000 users accessing it?
JamzeNeu 5y ago
We already have a discord server
https://discord.gg/APJDMGp
SoulRedemption 5y ago
As r/slygradient pointed out, best not to use unreliable platforms due to doxxing.
damaged_goods420 5y ago
Perhaps a telegram channel would be better?