According to Lyra, this was what was listed for the Discord, Skype, and Steam groups for the old group, which kinda rolls them over to the new group. This is what the old group's thread said!
6558382 To my knowledge, the Skype group is still on lockdown from a big Russian bot incident that we're still cleaning up from. It'll be open eventually once we figure out how to keep them from coming back in and kicking out all the inactive members just taking up space. If I'm wrong and you can join just fine, ignore this message.
6559648 Cynical says once we can get Obs to kick out all the inactives clogging up the user list and find a suitable way to block out the bots, it should be going smoothly again and we can re-integrate the Skype group back into the actual group. It all depends on when we can get someone with the right privileges on to do the purge.
If it was Discord, I'd be throwing Sweetie Bot in there and configuring her to take care of the spammers, as I've gotten pretty familiar with her, but I really don't know much about Skype.
6559672 Skype's got some issues when it comes to permissions and such. Roles are basically non-existent and the commands for different levels of administration are clunky and weird. We're working with what we have at the mo.
6559685 Well, we're sort of starting fresh. It's kind of like the Byzantine Empire of this collapse. Not so much the Justinian part, more like Justin II onward. It's good, and it's trying its best to cling to all the shit it just lost, but it's bound to collapse within the next 800 years from invasion. But instead of the Ottomans, it's Russian bots.
6559696 We're probably gonna keep it just because it's a bigger pain just to start over and re-give permissions. It's easier to do a few kicks than to do 20 re-ranks through the aforementioned clunky code system.
6559701 If the bot issue continues, we might have to build the whole thing from scratch on that end, too. But we'll burn that bridge after we cross it.
According to Lyra, this was what was listed for the Discord, Skype, and Steam groups for the old group, which kinda rolls them over to the new group. This is what the old group's thread said!
Edit: Updated with new links 3/6/2019.
--Sweetie Belle
6558382
Shouldn't this be pinned?
6558451
I think the old one wasn't, but was linked to on the front page.
The front page is kinda a mess right now, though. I suppose pinning it is a good idea.
--Sweetie Belle
6558382
To my knowledge, the Skype group is still on lockdown from a big Russian bot incident that we're still cleaning up from. It'll be open eventually once we figure out how to keep them from coming back in and kicking out all the inactive members just taking up space. If I'm wrong and you can join just fine, ignore this message.
6559251
Oh, I haven't actually logged into Skype for a long time, just Discord. Skype is scary!
Thanks for letting me know it is on lockdown. Hopefully that goes away soon.
--Sweetie Belle
6559648
Cynical says once we can get Obs to kick out all the inactives clogging up the user list and find a suitable way to block out the bots, it should be going smoothly again and we can re-integrate the Skype group back into the actual group. It all depends on when we can get someone with the right privileges on to do the purge.
6559665
Well, that's good, at least.
If it was Discord, I'd be throwing Sweetie Bot in there and configuring her to take care of the spammers, as I've gotten pretty familiar with her, but I really don't know much about Skype.
--Sweetie Belle
6559672
Skype's got some issues when it comes to permissions and such. Roles are basically non-existent and the commands for different levels of administration are clunky and weird. We're working with what we have at the mo.
6559679
Well, that doesn't sound good.
I personally stopped signing on when I started getting random pm requests from people that I didn't know and didn't seem to be from fimfiction...
--Sweetie Belle
6559685
Well, we're sort of starting fresh. It's kind of like the Byzantine Empire of this collapse. Not so much the Justinian part, more like Justin II onward. It's good, and it's trying its best to cling to all the shit it just lost, but it's bound to collapse within the next 800 years from invasion. But instead of the Ottomans, it's Russian bots.
6559693
Well, I can always update the skype link if we end up with a whole new one. That'd go with a whole new group, I suppose.
--Sweetie Belle
6559696
We're probably gonna keep it just because it's a bigger pain just to start over and re-give permissions. It's easier to do a few kicks than to do 20 re-ranks through the aforementioned clunky code system.
6559699
That is a point. Never hurts to consider all options, tho'.
--Sweetie Belle
6559701
If the bot issue continues, we might have to build the whole thing from scratch on that end, too. But we'll burn that bridge after we cross it.
So um the Discord server doesnt exist anymore. Is anyone going to start up a new one?
6753149
It looks like it still exists to me. That invite link expired, tho'.
I don't have admin rights there, but I think this link should work...
https://discord.gg/ThJzajF
--Sweetie Belle
6558382
This has been updated recently apparently
6784861
Do you use Discord? I've been meaning to ask. You and a few others, actually.
6863093
Sometimes, but not often.
6863177
Sounds like me, though I've been trying to remember to use it more.