We've not promoted Slack as a place for users (purposefully). I'd say it's worth adding Discord and giving it a shot for the user community and keeping slack for those few moments where we need to ping each other for dev related items that might need some quick back/forth interaction.
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:14 PM Joshua Shinavier <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't used Discord much myself, but I don't see the down side of trying > it out amongst ourselves, then inviting a few community members. If the > response is positive, announce it on gremlin-users. We already have a Slack > workspace which is not much used, so in the worst case, now there are two. > > ^^ $0.02 > > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 4:53 PM David Bechberger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > With the recent uptick in both StackOverflow posts and mailing list > posts, > > it has got me thinking about ways to get more users engaged with the > > TinkerPop community. I was curious what people's thoughts were on > starting > > a Discord server? > > > > The pros I see here are: > > > > * The ability to interact with users directly > > * The ability (through bots) to create a single location to monitor for > > questions > > * The ability to have statistics on user engagement > > * The ability to promote TinkerPop on internal/external discord server > > lists > > > > The biggest con I can think of is that if there is not much usage of it, > > then it would look like the project was not an active community. > > > > Thoughts? > > >
