City of Neoxian chat has returned to Discord

City of Neoxian chat has returned to Discord

Dear Hive,

I have caved into peer pressure and returned my city chat to Discord from Matrix chat. The city was originally born in Discord and was there for quite a while, but then I moved it to Matrix for about 1 year and 10 months, but today have decided to move it back.

Why did you move from Discord to Matrix

I don't want to go over that again, I talked about it in this post, so read that.
https://hive.blog/hive-177682/@neoxian/city-of-neoxian-migrating-away-from-discord

Ok so why are you moving back to Discord?

The straw that broke the camel's back was that I feel it is hurting my Splinterlands Guild. A lot of Splinterlands players don't care about some weird chat and don't want to use it, so making them use it is probably discouraging them. Everyone in Splinterlands uses Discord so it seems like I need to as well.

But it's not just that. Discord does have many amazing feature and bots that make it easier to use, can save me time with various tasks. Matrix chat (with Element client) just doesn't have that level of features.

Things I missed from Discord

  • Pinned messages
  • The mee6 bot
  • The giveaway bot
  • Other bots, music bot
  • Being able to quickly and easily check if people are chatting, their last messages
  • Roles! A rich and featureful role system

You get the idea, just tons of stuff.

Matrix wasn't that bad, but it did have problems.

To be fair, Matrix chat is a decent chat, we were able to use it for almost two years, still had lots of fun in the city. It was mostly ok, but there were problems. Often times people would get "encrypted" and can't read each other's chat. This happened pretty often. Or just general network problems "My Network!" Also, the lack of features above.

You have to pick your battles

I really hate doing this, moving back to Discord. I'm giving up and giving in on my values. I value Open Source, and decentralized software. Discord is closed source and centralized and run by a single company. Discord is basically the Microsoft of online chatting, but it's just so good and well written. Nothing open source comes even close. Honestly, it might be five years or more before something open source can challenge it.

This is a battle I'll fight some other time, in the future, when there is something better available, or when Discord overplays it's hand and starts banning and spying on everyone and generally showing their true colors, or if I get kicked off, for whatever reason (because I'm an evil rich whale or some bullshit, or flagged by some Karen.)

So I'm moving the city back, sigh

I guess it's not all bad. Going back to Discord will breathe new life into the city. Already a bunch of older people have returned, people who haven't chatted in ages and didn't like Matrix.

The Discord Link

https://discord.gg/Rdhc6vdd (good for 7 days)


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So for now Discord is a necessary evil and whether we like it or not we have to live with it for now.
Hopefully in future better alternative will emerge:)

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It's been awesome seeing the old city members in discord since the migration earlier today. I had a great time with the city members via Matrix and I am optimistic about the discord henceforth.

Good job Mr D for all you do 👍💪

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more citizens, more chat, oldies back, it would be more exciting!!!!

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It's all good, hopefully we'll seem a more wonderful decentralised platform that'll challenge Discord In the nearest future.

But of a truth like you said, discord as some mind-blowing features that literally makes things easier and entertaining for us than matrix.

It's good to have the oldies back and can't wait to draw from their well of wisdom.

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Hmm, now I understand. I also had a few issues with element. I will miss it though. But discord seems to just be a lot better at the moment.

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The business model behind social networking and distant communication services has always been fascinating to me. And once one becomes part of the problem; can't see the problem.

I don't use discord. I'm sure I miss out on plenty of opportunities like: Spending all day on discord complaining about how's there very little engagement on Hive. Or sitting on discord all day talking about how posts are going unnoticed on Hive. Or sitting on discord all day talking about how nobody is around to vote and support content. Or sitting on discord for 12 hours talking about how that post you wrote took 2 hours to produce, and nobody noticed.

sigh

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My city chat is much more fun that what you describe.

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Thank you dear Neoxian for the discord channel link. I'm in. And Professor Xabi welcomed me 💝❤️💖

I love you Neoxian, thanks for appreciating my blogs here with your kind support. I'm thankful! Accepted my heartiest gratitude!!!

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Good move Mr D
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I'm one of those who love this new development, I think it was because of me, lolz. Well I know it isn't but it's surely going to be of great help to me, now I can be more active than usual, hehehe.

Thank you so much for considering coming back, I hope we don't face any problems here at least fikr now 😊.

@merit.ahama, @geelocks @emreal @sommylove @kingsleyy @treasure-joshua @patakwashj @mosesessien @tomiajax you guys should check this out and thank me later, hehe.

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Hehehe! Mom am here already, what's happening? 🧐

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Thanks for bringing this to my (our) notice. I have joined the discord link thanks 🙏

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Gotta love good ol discord!

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excellent that they return to Discord right now I join their chat

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We'll harness the great qualities Discord has to offer 🥰 in all, progress is assured to the City and Citizens of the Great Neoxian

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I wasn’t in the city from the discord days, but I’m glad I stumbled into it on Element. The city is a fun place to be and the chat rooms, even better.

I’ve had problems staying active on Discord too, and I’m sure this move back to discord will give me a reason to be active there now.


Long live the dragon and long live the city!!!

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I hope you won't regret your decision Sir. I just hope I am under pressure as well

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This is really awesome and Definitely an opportunity to join and I appreciate that a lot.

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I guess the link had expired I clicked on it and it says link expired or invalid

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It should work, other people have entered after you wrote this comment.

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It is a privilege to be part of this.

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happy for his return to Discord and may it be for a long time

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Thanks for the heads up on going back.

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Joining now.

!PIZZA
!CTP

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It is not like people are hating matrix but they need to keep both tool open as rest of majority still relying on Discord.
Might be in next few year we get open source , feature rich tool like Discord.

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This is amazing. I'm jumping into the channel ✌️

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Reading your article I think the conclusion is clear. We need a decentralized discord on Hive!

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Wow,this is beautiful and I am glad I will be part of the community too because I just joined through the discord link.

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I think one advantage of discord is that is more popular. I have joined and it is great to be part of the community on discord. I often use the neoxian tag and I often wonder if there is a discord channel for it: now there is 😀

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🤗Let's make to benefit the most of the time we have!

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Discord does have many amazing feature and bots that make it easier to use, can save me time with various tasks.

Discord has always been the hotbed of informal engagement, we spend a lot of time in discord. The next interesting thing in this crypto era should how to reward discord engagement.

By the way, thank you for this update.

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I'm just happy right now... Wow, we are back..

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Wow... This is great, this will pave way for more users to join and it will be very fun and interesting...

I'm in already 😃

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On Discord the excitement in the City is palpable. It is good to see old members coming back. The City is buzzing with life - so that is always a good thing.

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All the best to Neoxian city and I am sure we will all see more people joining in the coming weeks and quality check is also easier.

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We all happy for your decision

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Dear @neoxian, this is actually good seeing the community in the discord chat. I think this will give me more room to share my feelings about the #neoxiancity community.

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Nice to be able to join the Community there. Shall I get a working Discord link? The one in the Post expired.

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