Discord for paying rLab members

[Vance Briggs]

We have sent out a couple of mailshots to our paying members containing a joining link for the rLab discord server. 

If you are a current rLab paying member and you have not seen the email and link then please contact me directly and I will send you one. 

Vance

[Ian Petrie]

Hi Vance

Please could you send me an invite to the rLab Discord server at

vet...@mail.com

I opened an account with my i...@the-petries.co.uk address but have had endless trouble making it work - ending with the message that that account has been disabled.

You can change my membership email to vet...@gmail.com to be tidy!

Thanks

Ian

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[Frank in Woodcote]

Once everyone is on discord, this open group could be closed to make it private? Thoughts? 

Just move paid members over to discord from now on. More chatty, personal and instant too.

[Tony Summers]

Why close down what little interaction with the wider community there is?

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[Frans Wilbrink]

Agree.. and also it can be used to send out email reminders for important stuff being announced/discussed on discord..

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[Andrew]

Hopefully once matters have settled and there's been time to implement some infrastructure the discord server will be suitable for both members and non-members, there is already some implementation to that effect, though as it is entirely manual at this time it is not yet suitable for the load that may be placed on it if the discord server was made public at this time.

For the purpose of email updates we have a members mailing list for that purpose, and I believe that is more suitable for the distribution of important announcements, and the celebration of the projects of our community, for those who do not follow those channels on the discord server.

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[Richard Ibbotson]

It has always been my desire that where any online interest group is not necessarily constrained to be physically in the RLab building it should be open to all with equal access and privileges, and not just members. So groups around electronics or repair for instance would be open to all. People might suggest others.

However as we transition to Discord and with a few governance issues right now. It may be difficult to maintain this.

Richard

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On 13 Mar 2023, at 18:02, Andrew <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[mikethebee]

This GG has complimentary features to Discord, the mail interface is popular, and the sole one used by some; I use the web interface which is light, speedy & simple even on old or low power browsers such as a raspberryPi (Happy Pi day BTW), whereas Discord is really too demanding to run on my HP11 of a couple of years ago, and pushes one to the app all the time.

Keeping this GG for open public conversations seems the best to me, and it has stored conversations since 2011 which are searchable; something I am not sure Discord will do (or even Google for much longer) 

We did try a members-only group but it didn't prove popular and as Richard says most Hackspace conversations should be public, nothing on the Internet is private and being in public may instill more thought before hitting 'send'. (sounds of laughter ripple around the place:)

[Keegan Neave]

As a long standing former member I'd love to know what the hell's going on to be honest, I'm not a member any more but was for a long while. If there's any scope to get an invite on those grounds I'd appreciate it but I understand I'm not a member any more.

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[Andy Noyes]

Ditto

[Andrew]

I'm not going to oppose a release of more details here, or decide to release such details by myself, but since a lot of speculation  could be drawn from what has been posted on the mailing list I'll summarise the current state of the discord so that such speculation isn't wildly off target:

There is currently ongoing, level-headed discussion with a rough consensus on the nature of contention and a direction the membership want to take to resolve it.

There is also a level of community engagement in maintaining and improving the space that I haven't seen in all my time as a member, and I personally think the future of Rlab is looking pretty good.

I personally think the discord server will become public, sooner or later, but we'll need to establish some form of spam prevention first. The Google group has a very basic form based (iirc) on the first message posted. And while discord has much better moderation tools someone (probably Vance) will need to volunteer to set them up and check they're working right. I'm sure there are web scrapers out there that would do something with a public discord invite and I think none of us want to deal with that right now.

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[Keegan Neave]

"There is also a level of community engagement in maintaining and improving the space that I haven't seen in all my time as a member, and I personally think the future of Rlab is looking pretty good."

It's one thing we've historically been pretty good at, when the shit hits the fan shit gets done. Long may it, and the level headedness, continue.

Thanks for the summary Andrew.

[Alex P]

People having issues with the discord? All the channels have gone for me

[Mark Morris]

Looks fine to me

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[Mr.G]

Working for me, sometimes it hides as channel and I have to search to reveal it

Kind regards
Mr.G

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[Frans Wilbrink]

looks fine to me:

 

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[arthur...@gmail.com]

Hiya, i did get the email, but didn't use the link before it expired. Could you send it to me again please vance

[Andrew]

I've sent you a new link.

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[Maheemal Thilakarathne]

Few months late to the party. would someone kindly re-share the link to join?

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[Andrew]

I'll send it to you directly.

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