@ward0 Mate, this is not KVR. Most of the people are really friendly here. Now there's always weed in any garden... but not much weed here. Except real weed. If you know what I mean.

 

Yea, maybe it was just a few threads and I got a bad impression, my bad

 

I have created a personal Discord server where when something gets posted on the sister-site it is also posted on the discord server.

I find it easier when I am on my phone to check the new releases there(on discord) than to open chrome(my phone is a bit slow with chrome). Then I when I see something that I like I will open it.

I also have notifications from audiosex but they don't work properly and are not implemented for all sub-forums.

There is no chat ability, I just use it instead of an RSS feed.

https://discord.gg/vqBST5R

PS, If any admins would like to take full control of the server, I would be happy to give it to them.

 

I've already created a channel and it has more members. Tell your friends to join so the community can grow with faster rate.
Here you go: https://discord.gg/YSm9MNa

 

You can't get rid completely of the "elitist" ones, but AFAIK this forum is one of the best in that sense. Very friendly people here.

 

Oh that's great, I joined :-P.
My server is just an RSS feed on Discord no chatting.

I feel that if we start discussing things on discord then what is the point of the forum?
Just keep that in mind and try to talk most things on the forums because this is how some times misunderstandings might happen.

Also I believe it is possible to have the forum chat on discord and vice-versa.

 

If the Discord server grows and the admins like the idea, it's possible to integrate the Discord feed into the website homepage. Not requesting, just saying it's possible

 

Yeah, that would be great. I use discord for Work, family, gaming...and more other things. I try to avoid using chrome as much as possible :-P.

 

The community is growing. We have strict policy to ask good questions on forum by the way.

 

I'm bumping this thread. As a discord user and a Audio Sex user. I think we should make one for Audio Sex/Sister site.

 

You should never use Discord and here's why
TLDR At the bottom

Issue 1 : Centralisation & Trust

Discord's initial idea was a program called Openfeint / Aurora Feint. Their founder is Citron (also founder of Discord). Red flags start with the fact that it was sold to a chinese company for 104 million USD. Followed by multiple lawsuits by it's users for selling all their data to a third party without any prior notice, violating their own policy. Openfeint was accusedof monitoring, accessing and manipulating sensitive user data (such as dm's, FB&twitter profiles, browser history, GPS location, ...) This was all done in a way to bypass certain laws and barriers

Sketchy business model : There is no way the freemium nitro barriers keep discord from going under, Discord's entire hope is that eventually it will be bought out by a tech giant (like openfeint). Discord is heavily dependent on venture capitalist funding (which is an extremely unstable model). Supposedly there are still talks with Microsoft, while Sony has already bought out a significant but still minority stake in Discord. When it is eventually bought out, the tech giant does not value you or your privacy any more than Discord does right now. It is most likely that like previously that the founder will once again run away with the sack of cash like he did with Openfeint.

Issue 2 : Privacy & Safety

The fact is that Discord collects everything you do inside (and sometimes outside) the program, this includes all your messages sent, calls made, servers left or joined blablabla. Everything is logged and sent to their servers. Things tracked outside the program include : programs you run and other system specific information that can identify your hardware (such as your HWID's) Discord does not have E2E encryption, and refused to implement it. (lil side note : there are third party E2E plugins, but they are unreliable)

Think of when (not if) the next data breach happens, all your info is just sitting on their servers UNENCRYPTED up for grabs. All it takes is 1 breach to make every message you ever sent public information. Discord has these toggles in the privacy sections that gives you the illusion of privacy. You continue to keep sending data even if they're toggled off. Discord just then stops processing it as soon as they've received it, so it's essentially just useless. There is also no guarantee that discord even follows this promise.

Under GDPR companies are required to honor your Article 17 right that gives you "the right to be forgotten". Discord literally refuses to follow this law, they never delete your data when you delete / disable your account. If you send them an e-mail asking them to, they'll delete your account but keep the data. There is no way to mass-delete your own messages, self-bots are detected and will just get you banned. Discord is in complete violation of almost all GDPR laws here. Even FACEBOOK, arguably one of the shittiest companies on earth allows you to do this.



TLDR : Discord is a data hungry company that gives 0 shits about your privacy, security or anonimity. Nothing is safe, everything is logged and not a single thing is encrypted besides your password.



Sources:

Openfeint CAL: https://www.courthousenews.com/gamers-say-openfeint-sold-them-out/

Discord Insiders: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/07/discord/

Discord Data: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/eiicah/trawling_through_my_discord_data_package_after_35/

Telemetry Routes: https://luna.gitlab.io/discord-unofficial-docs/science.html

GDPR Requests: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp...nt_on_privacy_issues_disregarding_of/f1ev4h3/

Trust & Safety Scandal: https://discord.news/trust-and-scam/

Discord Data Thieves: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...thieves-child-groomers-and-fbi-investigators/

Discord Corruption: https://www.newsweek.com/discord-furries-terms-service-community-guidelines-1323099


alternative https://www.guilded.gg/

 

"Safe" ? According to whom? Discord is about as "safe" as facistbook or twatter as far as censorship and big brotherly monitoring goes. At least with IRC with an invite only channel you're as safe as randomness provides what with the plethora of net's of which IRC consists.
Is IRC perfect? Hell no. But at least you don have a corporate entity breathing down your neck and personal info having to be doled out to get on the platform.

 

Screw discord for real time chat. I propose an IRC channel on some net for real time sisite and AS talk. maybe two channels. Discord will always ask to "verify" your shit especially if you're on VPN and I wont do it.

Someone already mentioned something about DALnet having channels for AZ and AS but in looking thru the chan list I see nothing there.