On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 4:13 PM Aris Merchant via agora-business <agora-business@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > I intend, without objection, to modify the publicity of the Agora > Nomic Chat Server (current invite: https://discord.gg/JCC6YGc) to > discussion. > > There have been several concerns raised that have prevented us from > doing this before now. One is that the platform is proprietary. > However, it has demonstrated that it is likely to stay around for a > while, and is certainly no worse from a data retention perspective > than IRC, which is totally ephemeral. We could even ask Jason if e > would be willing to bridge some of the channels that aren't currently > bridged to IRC so people could access it that way. > > Furthermore, the lack of "official recognition" has not prevented the > widespread unofficial use of the Discord server. Not everyone has > joined, but according to G., about as many players have taken part in > the Discord as took part in our IRC channel in its heyday. I do not > think there is any benefit to withholding recognition under these > circumstances — the effect of doing so is simply to have a misleading > fora list.
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