Discord Server Changes
@uBlue Members @Bazzite Contributor @Bazzite Maintainer @Aurora Maintainer @Aurora Contributor @Bluefin Maintainer
Hey folks,
I saw some recent changes to the discord that have taken place that I am trying understand better.
I have seen Bluefin and Aurora both make the decision to move to their own separate discord servers for development. I understand that the community here has grown substantially and the noise has become untenable. This space has become both a community support space for the projects and a development space which is clear that it's not what folks who work on Bluefin or Aurora want.
I do want to express the benefits of having the combined space as I personally have learned a lot and became a contributor because of the social nature of the space in how it existed previously. Having a server completely devoted to development in my eyes would've felt intimidating if I was just starting out. Having the opportunity to get involved in the community just from a support perspective through discord was a valid pathway for me to feel comfortable getting more involved. I don't want to lose that opportunity for folks who want to get involved in any of our projects.
Furthermore, fracturing the community and having 3 discords to monitor if I want to be involved with each community is more work than just having all things in one centralized place. If this is what we want to do, that is understandable, but practically, the only development discussion being done on this server now since the changes are:
- Bazzite
- Ucore
- Cayo Server
- Universal Blue Development(?)
In an ideal world, I would like to see us have this Discord server as a place where all the projects are able to live so we can more effectively collaborate with one another. I want to understand what we could do in order for Bluefin and Aurora to feel like this is a place that makes sense for them to potentially come back to this server. If that means more effective moderation or administration of the space, I feel like that is doable given the size of the community.
If that is not possible, here are some ideas that I have to set things to a proper scope:
1. Each project should have it's own discord server for development (Cayo / Ucore and Universal Blue Development Server)
2. Continue having this server house the Bazzite project and effectively rebrand the server for Bazzite. Many of the channels are Bazzite related and there is a lot of history here that would be lost if Bazzite were to spin off from this server. I also think Bazzite benefits from having a very close proximity between it's developers and the community that we support since a lot of gamers are on discord and moving Bazzite would be a monumental shift for a lot of users.
3. Find effective ways for us to collaborate like we were doing before with a new Universal Blue development server so we all benefit from the upstream contribution model.
To be clear, I am not set on what I think should be done here, I am trying to provide ideas of how to move forward so the purpose of this discord server is more clear. I want to work more effectively together and I personally hate feeling like I'm in limbo.
A lot has changed in the past year and it is understandable that we have landed where we are. I just want to make sure we don't lose the magic of what made Universal Blue special.
I will start a thread for this discussion. Please reply in there so we don't spam this channel.
Hey folks,
I saw some recent changes to the discord that have taken place that I am trying understand better.
I have seen Bluefin and Aurora both make the decision to move to their own separate discord servers for development. I understand that the community here has grown substantially and the noise has become untenable. This space has become both a community support space for the projects and a development space which is clear that it's not what folks who work on Bluefin or Aurora want.
I do want to express the benefits of having the combined space as I personally have learned a lot and became a contributor because of the social nature of the space in how it existed previously. Having a server completely devoted to development in my eyes would've felt intimidating if I was just starting out. Having the opportunity to get involved in the community just from a support perspective through discord was a valid pathway for me to feel comfortable getting more involved. I don't want to lose that opportunity for folks who want to get involved in any of our projects.
Furthermore, fracturing the community and having 3 discords to monitor if I want to be involved with each community is more work than just having all things in one centralized place. If this is what we want to do, that is understandable, but practically, the only development discussion being done on this server now since the changes are:
- Bazzite
- Ucore
- Cayo Server
- Universal Blue Development(?)
In an ideal world, I would like to see us have this Discord server as a place where all the projects are able to live so we can more effectively collaborate with one another. I want to understand what we could do in order for Bluefin and Aurora to feel like this is a place that makes sense for them to potentially come back to this server. If that means more effective moderation or administration of the space, I feel like that is doable given the size of the community.
If that is not possible, here are some ideas that I have to set things to a proper scope:
1. Each project should have it's own discord server for development (Cayo / Ucore and Universal Blue Development Server)
2. Continue having this server house the Bazzite project and effectively rebrand the server for Bazzite. Many of the channels are Bazzite related and there is a lot of history here that would be lost if Bazzite were to spin off from this server. I also think Bazzite benefits from having a very close proximity between it's developers and the community that we support since a lot of gamers are on discord and moving Bazzite would be a monumental shift for a lot of users.
3. Find effective ways for us to collaborate like we were doing before with a new Universal Blue development server so we all benefit from the upstream contribution model.
To be clear, I am not set on what I think should be done here, I am trying to provide ideas of how to move forward so the purpose of this discord server is more clear. I want to work more effectively together and I personally hate feeling like I'm in limbo.
A lot has changed in the past year and it is understandable that we have landed where we are. I just want to make sure we don't lose the magic of what made Universal Blue special.
I will start a thread for this discussion. Please reply in there so we don't spam this channel.
