I'd like to create a discord for Solus

BitTim8

I've got experience in moderating. I would like to offer up my simple abilities and create an official discord for Solus

Why Discord?

It's an extremely popular discussion/chat based app. Just as popular if not more popular than reddit at this point. Many Linux communities already use discord.

It's a great way for new people to gain interest in Solus. Most new people coming to Linux have a discord account and probably not a matrix account.

It's a way for me to contribute to growing Solus and spreading awareness about it to people.

We've got the why, here's part of the how

Following Solus philosophy/policy, multiple people would be made admins(preferably from the Solus team). This would ensure that if something happened to one admin, another admin could take control and bring another person in to help out.

It isn't hard to create a discord server. I've done so a few times and would love to do this with the approval of the Solus team.

brent

BitTim8 It's a great way for new people to gain interest in Solus. Most new people coming to Linux have a discord account and probably not a matrix account.

It's a way for me to contribute to growing Solus and spreading awareness about it to people.

these are noble intentions and I support your effort of spreading the word. I'm sure the Core that all work for free would be hard pressed to extend themselves but, as you said, perhaps delegate to volunteers/donors? you made a good case and acknowledged manpower would be the key.

I don't speak for anyone but myself here. as long as the forum is here I don't need or want a discord or matrix account--but I always hoped we would have a higher profile. I am a persuer of another forum and the influx of people leaving W11 is startling. One introduces themself every day . Not as many dual booters as there are those cutting the cords.

Something shifting in the Linux world cant put my finger on it. I think Solus should have a piece of that pie, too. Word of mouth has been good and the profile not a bad idea at all. All plans like that come with unintended consequences although I cannot/don't want to (edit) put my brain there today.

BitTim8

brent absolutely! If most of the admins couldn't do it, I'd be more than happy to add in volunteers! Having some people from the team would be useful for those moments where there's an update and they'd like to describe it in depth, but alot can be achieved by a simple copy and paste.

Harvey

We have zero interest in a Discord server.

BitTim8

Harvey at the expense of not knowing, might I ask the reasoning behind such a hard answer?

AlphaElwedritsch

Harvey Short and sweet to the point.

Harvey

BitTim8
Because we do not want to admin yet another sever splitting the community over even more locations. We have forums, mastodon, reddit and matrix. That is enough and no sane project would want to advertise a comms platform they are not moderating themselves.

brent

there you have it ^ 👍️ .

there might be other organic ways to raise profile, though.

BitTim8

Harvey fair enough!!! But I will point this out. Being that the Solus team is taking such awesome efforts to update the OS and migrate over to a new core to keep everything up to date, why not follow a similar principle with something like matrix? It is rather outdated, some people may be put off at signing up for something like that when they already have reddit, discord, Facebook, etc.

In other words, if you don't want to spread your wings far, why not dissolve something like matrix and add in discord which would Garner even more people, which could add to valuable support and contributions

If you look at it from a certain point of view, you could have potentially even less to manage. with discord, you could basically combine matrix and the forums here into one.

AlphaElwedritsch

Harvey We have forums, mastodon, reddit and matrix. That is enough

True, more then enough.
You don't have to jump through every hoop that's thrown at you.
Quality over quantity must always be the priority.

tannji

Harvey
I would "like" a Solus server, But having been a long-time gamer, as well as an admin, "Ambassador" (for items that no one wants to reject/sponsor, let alone take responsibility for) contact, council member, ect.... What Harvey said, especially that last little nugget.

Harvey

We are happy with Matrix which is not an old platform its pretty new. Regardless we are happy with our choices if people don't want to join us that is their decision and we won't argue with them.

BitTim8

Harvey I agree that it's ultimately the teams choice. Everyone has said their piece. Regardless, I think opportunity is being missed here. I wish the Solus team well in expanding people's awareness!