Discord
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Discord is a chatroom app, originally developed for voice but now primarily used as a Slack-like text app in fannish contexts. The main contexts are presently (May 2020) the gaming and anime communities.
Discord's chat features are free regardless of usage. (It makes money off of game subscriptions and merchandise sales.)
Server structure
A typical fannish outpost on Discord will tend to have these text channels:
- A welcome channel, placed at the top of the channel list where new arrivals land, with a single message welcoming them, presenting rules specific to the server, and/or directing them to channels they might find useful.
- A channel for news or announcements only.
- A help channel.
- A channel for general chatter about the event, topic, or community the server is for.
- A channel for off-topic chatter.
- Channels for notable subsets of the community, such as fans with a particular sub-interest, or speakers of a particular language.
