Would a discord server work better? This is a community platform that is easy to download and maintain. There are individual chats, group forums, and voice channels for all means of communication. With enough support, this can be set up quickly. Please upvote if this is something that sounds useful, and depending on support, there will be a link posted on this post shortly. Keep in mind this discord server could be used for all things EA, besides, connecting individuals and providing an easy place to share documents and stories. Please provide feedback!
There are multiple Discord servers with some degree of EA activity. The biggest I’m aware of is “EA Corner” (invite link), which is quite active. Thanks for the reminder to add that to our “useful links” post!
The EA Forum is very different from what Discord can accomplish; we want this to be a place where useful posts and discussions are available for decades to come—a record of EA intellectual progress, as well as a community space for long-form discussion. Discord is great for live chat, but very poor for archiving material or crafting a “body of work”.
(These open threads are the sort of thing one could replicate pretty well on Discord, but part of why they exist is for people to say hello as they enter the Forum community, so hosting them on a totally different platform would defeat the purpose.)
Would a discord server work better? This is a community platform that is easy to download and maintain. There are individual chats, group forums, and voice channels for all means of communication. With enough support, this can be set up quickly. Please upvote if this is something that sounds useful, and depending on support, there will be a link posted on this post shortly. Keep in mind this discord server could be used for all things EA, besides, connecting individuals and providing an easy place to share documents and stories. Please provide feedback!
There are multiple Discord servers with some degree of EA activity. The biggest I’m aware of is “EA Corner” (invite link), which is quite active. Thanks for the reminder to add that to our “useful links” post!
The EA Forum is very different from what Discord can accomplish; we want this to be a place where useful posts and discussions are available for decades to come—a record of EA intellectual progress, as well as a community space for long-form discussion. Discord is great for live chat, but very poor for archiving material or crafting a “body of work”.
(These open threads are the sort of thing one could replicate pretty well on Discord, but part of why they exist is for people to say hello as they enter the Forum community, so hosting them on a totally different platform would defeat the purpose.)