🚀 [Feature Request] Community discussion outside of Discord

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🚀 [Feature Request] Community discussion outside of Discord #3718

Open Espionage724 opened 2 months ago

Espionage724 commented 2 months ago

Feature Details

A community forum link, IRC, GitHub discussions, or anything other than some proprietary walled-garden bulky spyware client.

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Benefits and Purpose

Discord is a walled-garden, and any discussions and searchable useful information isn't available outside of it
I refuse to create a Discord account again, and would be more willing to discuss things outside of it
I have to imagine there's others who share a similar stance :p

Core Versions

[ ] 1.1.12 (Classic)
[ ] 2.4.3 (The Burning Crusade)
[ ] 3.3.5a (Wrath of the Lich King)

Espionage724 commented 2 months ago

I'm considering getting back into server emulation and I'm looking for a project. CMaNGOS was my first choice until I saw no linked discussion place outside of Discord, and that's making it a hard-pass for me.

cpevors commented 2 months ago

What are you looking to discuss? Bugs? Support issues or concerns? Feature requests? Because the CMaNGOS repository does have an Issues area where you can create and discuss those issues.

You’re in that space. We are discussing it now. I find it ironic you want another area.

My two pence. Does not reflect the views of those who actively develop and maintain this project.

Muehe commented 2 months ago

Well speaking for the project, it is like @cpevors said, this issue tracker and Discord are the only two official channels at the moment. There was a forum around on cmangos.net but was taken offline due to lack of use. There was also a cmangos IRC channel on rizon.net, but not even sure if that's around anymore.

Speaking for myself, I think those two channels should be enough, but I'm not personally opposed to looking at a third option. However the ones you mentioned aren't it IMHO, e.g. GitHub discussions seems somewhat redundant with issues, IRC isn't searchable either, (nearly) nobody uses dedicated forums these days...

So yeah, I feel where you are coming from, but not sure what would be the best way to solve this.

Espionage724 commented 2 months ago

What are you looking to discuss? Bugs? Support issues or concerns? Feature requests? Because the CMaNGOS repository does have an Issues area where you can create and discuss those issues.

Maybe bugs, but just any kind of general discussion. I like to get a feel for certain behaviors and discussing them casually before making full-scale bug reports and cluttering up space. I don't like creating tickets just to have it closed a few minutes later with a link to an obvious solution :p And would like to try to search or discuss stuff casually before that.

I like keeping GitHub tickets for serious matters. I also like seeing just anything related to a project in-case it sounds interesting or I can give feedback. I don't like giving two cents on serious tickets, and also am curious about what others are doing to see if I can use it or even give casual feedback about.

Muehe commented 2 months ago

Hrm, well there isn't going to be an easy solution to that, since short of closing down the Discord entirely casual conversation is probably going to mostly stay on there out of habit if we introduce a third option. Guess we could look into archiving the channels to the website so they are indexable at least, but not sure how popular that would be.

In any case, feel free to open issues on any questions you have, we separate bugs out by labels.