Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3495717-20160907131854

Though this in itself probably isn't news to a lot of you, we have our own Discord server created by BrawlTheMan, of whom you may know as one of our chat moderators and an all-round nice guy; he's also known for his regular streams, so perhaps you know him from those.

For those who don't know what Discord is, it's basically a service akin to TeamSpeak and Skype that allows users to communicate with each other via text and/or speech in a way that's catered more towards gamers with its overlays, non-intrusive design and such. I mean, I think it's also the name of some Chimera-esque thing from some show involving ponies, but eh, I wouldn't know the specifics of it.

But wait, there's more! See, after finding a script that allows the embedding of a Discord widget onto wiki pages, I thought it'd be a good idea to feature said widget on our front page, so after discussing this with Brawl, we made it happen.

A few things to note:
 * This won't replace the main chat. Our emotes are far superior anyway http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mugen/images/e/ee/Silly_Wink_Face.png
 * Unregistered users (in regards to Wikia, not Discord) will be unable to see the widget.
 * The rules of the main chat and this wiki, as well as Wikia's own terms of service, do not necessarily apply to the Discord chat; you will instead need to abide by Discord's terms of service and any rules set up in our Discord chat.
 * As the Discord chat is an official alternative (like our backup one), you are permitted to link to it in the main chat, just as long as you don't spam it or force everyone to join it.
 * If the main chat goes down for whatever reason, do remember that our Chatango backup is still our primary backup; again, Discord is an alternative chat service that we've employed primarily due to its voice chat feature, not a replacement. Saying that, if enough people request that we make the Discord chat the primary backup, then we'll see about changing it.
 * When you join the Discord chat, you are placed in the text-based chat by default; you have to manually join the voice chat, in case you were worried about such a thing.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a reply. 