We may be able to use Discord for event notices
much as we have been using inworld groups.
Communities on the Hypergrid need a grid-independent way to announce and promote events. They especially need a way to send Just-In-Time(JIT) alerts near the start time of an event. Discord has features that can support JIT notices. Friendica may have such features in the future.
Event in a virtual world
- Inworld groups can send notices to everyone in the group.
- We use that feature to notify group members of an upcoming event.
- Often all group members get the notice.
- They don't mind the notices because that's why they are in the group.
- But these notices at best only work for those who are inworld on the hypergrid.
- Many of us also use a web-world or a closed grid.
- And inworld notices reach no one not already in OpenSim.
Can we extend our reach to the outworld?
- We do use social media for announcements that travel the web/
- But we would like to send notices shortly before the event.
- Discord may be able to do that .
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How to manage "group" notices in Discord
- Discord servers are emerging as community hosts for the web.
- So they are like virtual world groups.
- Communities promotes events of interest to people in that community.
- A community can create a channel for community event news.
- That channel can carry posts of event announcements.
- Those posts are persistent but could also appear on the community web site.
- The community web site could also carry a community calendar.
- But that does not get us to Just-In-Time (JIT) notices.
- But Discord can send alerts directly to computers.
How to get Discord to send you alerts
- Discord can send alerts from any server (group) and from any channel.
- You probably want to select a channel in a specific group for alerts.
- Go to that channel and right-click on the name.
- In the dropdown options, hover the cursor over notifications.
- That gets you another level of dropdown options.
- To get alerts, check all messages.
- To avoid alerts, check only @mentions
- You have to tell your computer how to handle alerts.
How to manage a Discord channel for events
- This channel needs to be limited to posting event notices.
- Users will not tolerate frequent false alerts.
- I see that channels can be set so regular users cannot post on them.
- The channel owner will have to make that setting.
What would make Discord more useful for event notices?
- A way to access recent alerts.
Will Discord add these features?
- Discord may not see that in its interest.
- Discord was mainly aimed at gamers, who may not need that feature.
- We are wanting to use it to support online communities.
- An alternative may be developing in Friendica
- How do we replace Google Plus? Preliminary ideas
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I've been using opensim/lsl/php notifications for quite a while. Best I could say , if you want to use it for multiple grids is , Pick a server or create one, and have notification channels or have a channel per grid, and you can post notices there from in world , right after you send a group notice.
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