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.)
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.)