tag:dreamwidth.org,2008-04-22:10 Dreamwidth Open Source Development Dreamwidth Open Source Development 2018-12-05T11:28:29Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2008-04-22:10:209778 mark@plogs.net Mark Smith 2018-12-05T11:28:29Z 2018-12-05T11:28:29Z public 10 Posted by: <span lj:user='mark' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://mark.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png' alt='[staff profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://mark.dreamwidth.org/'><b>mark</b></a></span><br /><br />Hi all!<br /><br />In the deep dark ages past we used IRC as the means for doing real-time development/volunteer communication. This worked well enough for years but as a medium there are a lot of limitations to IRC and most Dreamwidth staff haven't been active there for a long time (for various reasons).<br /><br />Some time ago we created a Discord community and have been using it for some real-time communications since. It has proven to be effective for our purpose so we're going to make it official. If you would like to have a place to go to ask questions, talk about development, and similar Dreamwidth related conversation, you can find us here:<br /><br /><a href="https://discord.gg/dreamwidth">https://discord.gg/dreamwidth</a><br /><br />If you do decide to join us, when you join you'll only be able to see much at the beginning. Just tell us what your Dreamwidth name is in the #introductions channel and as soon as staff is around we can get you the right access to see the rest of the channels!<br /><br />I want to emphasize that this is just for volunteer/development communication and isn't meant to be a social lounge. IRC is still a reasonable place to go for that if you just want to hang out and chat, but we won't be using Discord for that.<br /><br />Questions & comments, fire away!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_dev&ditemid=209778" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments