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

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:

GENERAL

# 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!

STREAMING

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

TECH & SECURITY

# 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

POLITICS & PRIVACY

# 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

ENTERTAINMENT

# 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

THE SUBNET

# 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.


Header image credit: Filip Mroz