New channels; collection of suggestions

16patsle commented 6 years ago

Several ideas for new channels have been brought up, and not all of them have a Github issue yet. I'm collecting them here so we have all the ideas at a central place:

multiplayer (#17) :no_entry_sign:
off-topic (#19) :no_entry_sign:
showcase :ballot_box_with_check:
announcements :no_entry_sign:

Additionally, we might consider moving the welcome messages into its own channel, so people can mute them if they want.

fahseltc commented 6 years ago

+1 for showcase channel!

jdotrjs commented 6 years ago

Sorry for the delay on this; slipped our minds for a bit.

Anyway, I created the #showcase channel and (for now) am going to leave the other uncreated. We can revisit in the future but here are the thoughts behind that decision.

showcase -- often times this will involve links with large unrolls taking up a lot of space. This is good so that people get to see whatever neat thing you've been working on but can be disruptive to any other conversations going on in tandem. Also, when you make something awesome it'd be nice if it was visible longer than it is when it gets dropped into a more general purpose channel
multiplayer - There was a spate of folks doing multiplayer work and during that questions about it were pretty prevalent in #beginners and #phaser3. That's okay though, answering questions are what those channels are for and it did not persist long enough that it felt like it would get much sustained traffic
off-topic - We're not big enough yet that idle chatter in #general has been a problem. The feeling that #general is a good place to chill and shoot the shit with folks also working on stuff is a neat vibe to have and it'd be nice to keep it as long as we can
announcements - meh, as far as I can tell we don't really have that many. What few we do can show up as pinned comments in general or updates to the #readme message.

16patsle commented 6 years ago

robmuh suggested a few other channels:

MyGameBuilder channel (#29) 🚫
Phaser Editor channel (#30) 🚫
Phaser for education channel (#31) 🤔

I'll close those issues and point them here

16patsle commented 6 years ago

Also a suggestion for an #updates channel, discussion for that happens in #28

jdotrjs commented 6 years ago

I'm kinda meh on the MyGameBuilder and similar commercial IDEish channels. It looks like (MGB, at least, probably others?) pretty directly expose the underlying code so any phaser-related questions we'll already be able to address and IDE-related stuff seems better suited for the corresponding support channels they have?

Education and similar might be interesting? IIRC jelaw21 is also a teacher and might have thoughts on whether or not it'd be useful.

phaser-discord / administration

New channels; collection of suggestions #25

multiplayer (#17) :no_entry_sign:

off-topic (#19) :no_entry_sign:

showcase :ballot_box_with_check:

announcements :no_entry_sign:

off-topic - We're not big enough yet that idle chatter in #general has been a problem. The feeling that #general is a good place to chill and shoot the shit with folks also working on stuff is a neat vibe to have and it'd be nice to keep it as long as we can

announcements - meh, as far as I can tell we don't really have that many. What few we do can show up as pinned comments in general or updates to the #readme message.