I've gone ahead and set up a Discord instance for us to try. My thinking is that we can try this out internally for a week or two and then, if we like it, we promote this to the larger community. Thoughts?
If you click on the link below it should allow anyone here to join: https://discord.gg/5a72PZgmdq On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:17 AM Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > >
