User blog comment:Thegoldnguy/Where I've been/Should we make another Discord server?/@comment-25485523-20190314145403

In Regards to Discord, I'd say no.

There are ways it could benefit us, but it's ultimately useless. Frankly, I can do anything discord is considered noteworthy for on A billion other services such as IRC (A old thing), AIM (Another old thing), BBS (pretty sure this is the oldest), XMPP, Google Hangouts, Wikia Chat, Skype and Teamspeak - It doesn't take much more time to link A image then to actually have the image show up. Hell, I could pull off almost everything on discord with the exception of voice chat on A forum.

Discord's customization features and add-ons are also really pathetic compared to Mediawiki, CSS, and javascript for wikia. Have you seen the add-ons on dev.wikia.com? We even got the options menu in our chat from dev.wikia.com. I've seen wikis with their own bots in wikia chat, much like discord. In Addition, Wikia's add-ons on dev.wikia.com are open sourced (It used to be called FANDOM Open Source library) while Discord is not. I'd rather have nearly unlimited icons and Open Source Add-ons (Wikia) then some closed source chatroom with only 50 icons unless you pay up (Discord). Plus, for wikia chat we wouldn't have to all make new accounts just to enter another chatroom.

TL;DR:I see no justification for advocating a closed-source, walled-garden chatroom like Discord.

In Regard to the Wikizilla.org guys - I think we should since we're no longer associated and it'd be best to showcase that, but I'm not sure what we'd be called. Kaiju roleplay wiki maybe? Hmmmm.....