Discord

🎮 Using our Discord

We use a Discord server for our users and our dev-team.

NOTE: If you just created your Discord account, you'll need to wait a couple of hours before you can join the server. This is an anti-bot security measure. If you got banned due to this, it's an IP ban, so you'll also be banned on your original account. Contact our Discord admin Fergus#0042 if you're locked out and he'll sort you out.

If you're in the guild and stuck, look down the users-list for a community-mod and chat with them.

Communication Guidelines

Discord is great for information that is more transient:

• touching base and chatting with other users / devs
• getting help / figuring out problems together
• discussing ideas
• hanging out in the video-conference rooms
• discussing even advanced dev topics

GitHub is great for more-persistent information.

• filing a bug / feature-request issue (after you've used Discord to discuss)
• contributing persistent information to a pull-request (please still prefer to keep chat on Discord)
• MAKING a pull-request

Do your best to figure out where to engage. And do not worry, we are trying to figure it out too.

Discord Conventions & Tips

• If you're contributing, please align your nick-in-this-server with your GitHub username, and put your timezone
  e.g. fooNickname -> fooNickname (myGitHubName GMT+3)
  UserSettings -> Profiles -> ServerProfiles

• Please put things in the most sensible place If we all do this we're golden

• Code-chunks (within a line) use ` on either end of your code

• Code-blocks (multiline) use ```python

  • then ``` on a last seperate line to end the block
  • this way you'll get beautiful syntax highlighting

• Use Discord Timestamps for scheduling. To get current stamps click here

• If it helps someone else, react 👍 to acknowledge you've read something

• If you want to spawn a thread (and can't) ask a community mod

• We use Threads.

  • If you're in a channel and want to see the threads, there's a #💬 icon on the top right of your Discord window.
  • Click it to see all the threads for this channel
  • You can JOIN a thread, to do this right click the thread and choose 'join'.
    This will make the thread appear under the channel, and you can see conversation in it!

• If you want your DMs alongside channels-view, use the Desktop Discord client and WebUI together