The Discord server is problematic

Poll results: Thoughts on the Discord server?

Remove it.
52.17% 12 votes
Keep it, but move all booru functionality to the booru.
21.74% 5 votes
Keep it as it is.
13.04% 3 votes
Replace it with a shoutbox.
8.70% 2 votes
Other.
4.35% 1 vote

Poll ended with 23 votes.

Athena

I made a temporary Discord account to see what was going on inside the Ponybooru Discord community.
 
  • Featured image votes are exclusively conducted in a server channel via emoji reactions.  
  • The moderator channels are completely inaccessible to users.  
  • The server has a separate set of rules completely independent from the booru’s rules.  
  • Requires making an account with a third-party service provider to access the server.  
  • Requires abiding by Discord’s terms of service and community guidelines that can change at any moment to access the server.  
  • The server has a separate mod audit log specifically for Discord server moderation.  
  • The server has an exclusive news feed regarding the booru.  
  • The server is effectively its own insular community completely separate from the booru.  
  • Art and comments that may otherwise be posted to the booru are posted in the server’s art channel instead.  
  • Questions and answers posted in the server pertaining to the booru are unable to be indexed by search engines or accessed outside of the server at all.  
  • Everything posted to the server is unarchivable and will be lost when the server inevitably collapses in on itself in the future (e.g. incompatible ToS changes).
     
    A decent solution may be to either implement a native shoutbox into the booru, embed an IRC chatroom, or (as a last resort) embed a third-party shoutbox that allows anonymous chatting (e.g. Chatango) to unify both communities and allow everyone access to the community features currently exclusive to the Discord server.
     
    I was initially going to suggest bridging/mirroring everything posted to the server as an alternative, but this may cause issues with Discord’s developer policy (“You may not use the APIs in any way to … scrape any Discord Data …”), as well as with privacy laws such as GDPR.
     
    Please let me know what you think!
     
    Additional (albeit old) server discussion:  
  • Ponybooru Discord?  
  • (subthread about Discord)  
  • Should ponybooru have a official discord?  
  • We Have A Discord.
Azure Fang
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Oh no, he's here?
Guess the server turned into exactly what I feared it would. Whoda thought? It should be burned to the ground; there’s hardly anybody interacting with the site as it stands.
Anonymous #B56D
Art and comments that may otherwise be posted to the booru are posted in the server’s art channel instead.
Frankly speaking, that’s real stupid. You’d think with a site that lacks interaction would promote interactions by directing users to comment on the images on-site by deleting any text messages (leaving links to the respective images only) rather than doing it all on discord. Worse yet if there’s relevant art that’s posted there and NOT on the booru.
On that note, wasn’t there some issue about art not getting archived that spawned the alts in the first place?
The server has an exclusive news feed regarding the booru.
This is just dumb. There should be a simple news feed that doesn’t require discord or some other service for quick site news. Would be especially helpful for times the site has the odd hiccup every now and again.
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