The Great Discord Reorg of 2020

I'm reorganising my Discord servers. Please read this if you are part of the fab.industries or Private Citizen servers.

Photo by Filip Mroz

As part of the Private Citizen hiatus this month, I am looking at ways of changing the podcast’s website and tightening up the presentation of the whole show. I currently maintain an invite-only Discord server for producers and I have noticed that this is preventing me from giving enough attention to my other Discord server, which I had created for Sixgun Productions and which now serves as a community for fab.industries, including my Twitch streams. To simplify everything and to make sure I have enough time in my day to interact with everyone, I’ve decided to fold the Private Citizen Discord into the fab.industries one and completely revamp the server. For this, I have the following channel structure in mind:

# ๐Ÿ””-announcements โ€” announcements concerning the Discord server
# ๐Ÿ›Ž๏ธ-meta โ€” how can we improve this server together?
# ๐Ÿ˜-bants โ€” hang out with the peeps on the server and shoot the breeze
# ๐Ÿฅณ-memes โ€” have fun with memes you pulled off the net
# ๐Ÿš-entschleunigung โ€” vanlife, beaking bread, living in a cabin
# ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ-runslingers โ€” get fit by running and cycling together
# ๐Ÿ“ฏ-plugs โ€” have you done a thing? tell us about it!

# โฐ-streams โ€” announcements of upcoming streams
# ๐Ÿšง-backstage โ€” backstage area for streamers
ยป ๐ŸŽค-ontheair โ€” streaming voice channel

# ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป-technews โ€” gadgets, gizmos and hacks
# ๐Ÿ”’-security โ€” infosec news and discussion
# ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ-development โ€” talk about software development
# โš’๏ธ-unfuckthenews โ€” discuss Fab’s tech newsletter Unfuck the News

# โ€๐Ÿ“บ-thenews โ€” talk about what’s happening in politics around the world
# ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ-privacy โ€” threats to our privacy and solutions for going OTG
# โ€๐Ÿฆ…-privatecitizen โ€” discuss the Private Citizen podcast
# โ€๐Ÿ“ฐ-panicdemic โ€” comment on Fab’s newsletter and book Pan(ic)demic

# โ€๐Ÿ•น๏ธ-games โ€” video games, board games and so forth
# โ€๐Ÿ“š-books โ€” what interesting books have you read lately?
# โ€๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ-screentime โ€” let’s talk about movies and TV shows
# โ€๐ŸŽด-magic โ€” the greatest game ever invented: Magic The Gathering
# โ€๐ŸŽฒ-warhammer โ€” the Warhams, the Space Marines and Stormcast
# โ€๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป-startrek โ€” all the Star Trek nonsense
# โ€๐ŸŽ™๏ธ-levelonediagnostic โ€” talk about the Level One Diagnostic podcast
# โ€โš“-grimdeep โ€” discuss Fab’s novel Grim Deep

# โ€๐ŸฆŠ-thefoxhole โ€” a special place for special things for special people
# โ€๐ŸŽ–๏ธ-producers โ€” for the Patreon supporters of The Private Citizen
# โ€๐Ÿ…-subscribers โ€” an exclusive channel for the Twitch subscribers
# โ€๐Ÿงฏ-mods โ€” this is where the mods discuss mod things

The server will be free to join for anybody. It will include some special roles that grant privileges, though.

  • Mod: Server moderators, tasked with keeping the peace. They are the law. They meet in # โ€๐Ÿงฏ-mods and have access to all channels on the server.
  • Streamer: Twitch folk I’ve streamed with in the past. They have access to the channels # ๐Ÿšง-backstage and ยป ๐ŸŽค-ontheair.
  • Producer: Peeps who support The Private Citizen with a regular monetary contribution. They have access to # โ€๐ŸฆŠ-thefoxhole and # โ€๐ŸŽ–๏ธ-producers channels.
  • Subscriber: Subscribers of my Twitch channel have access to # โ€๐ŸฆŠ-thefoxhole and # โ€๐Ÿ…-subscribers.

I will enact these changes in the coming days. If something goes wrong and you can’t access things you think you should be able to access, please email me. I will sort out the problem immediately. I hope to see you on the newly refurbished server. If you’re not part of the community already, you can join by using this link.