Thread:Sakaros/@comment-5148107-20190719230605

Hey there, Sak! Hope you're having a great day.

I've been poking around the wiki recently in my attempts to return to activity and noticed the Feedback feature. I'm super glad that it was added, because I realized it brings the community together a lot more than it ever was before. On that topic--I have noticed in recent months that the wiki's "air," if you will, is silent and dead. For the most part, I don't ever see too much interaction between members of the community, which really seems inappropriate for a wiki about sharing fan fiction.

So an idea I've been wanting to entertain for some time now is possibly setting up a SWF community Discord server. I feel like having one would bring the community together much more effectively than occasional message wall posts, page comments, or maybe even the chat. Speaking of which, while we do have the chat room, I don't think it has the same benefits a Discord server would have. I believe with Discord, users could:


 * Share ideas without having to write a whole blog post on it, and receive feedback on those ideas


 * Interact far more directly than through message wall conversations


 * Perhaps even organize collaborative projects with much more ease through means of private messaging and the ability to link files, docs, etc.

Of course, there are some cons to this, and off the top of my head:


 * Because it is a third party program, perhaps some users would be unable to use Discord

That second one is the main reason this may not be such a good idea. But in the long run, I do believe a Discord server would be beneficial to the wiki in that it would unite the community and allow for closer relationships between its authors.
 * It would likely subtract from some of the features currently present on the wiki, which is certainly not the goal of this proposition whatsoever

As an example, my friends and I writing The Clone Wars: Ultimates have had a Discord server dedicated to our projects for a few years at this point, and it's allowed for some serious progression in our stories (even though we haven't actually released much...) We've set up various channels for story ideas, notes, art, and more--even channels to screw around or discuss the newest Marvel movie or something! Beyond that, it's allowed us to bond much more intimately than through any other chat, which I think is the ultimate benefit of setting one of these up.

Hopefully I haven't left any points out that I wanted to make, and I hope you take this into consideration. My ultimate goal with this is simply to bring the community together more than it is now--in most scenarios, I'm pretty sure the only times the community is together most is annually with the Wiki Awards.

Apologies for the lengthy post, you'll have to forgive me for that! 