SpecialK Community Discord

[blu]

The official Special K Discord server can be found here:

https://discord.com/invite/ER4EDBJPTa




--- Original post (unofficial Discord server) ---
This place is good as a forum-like replacement but not really good if you just have a quick question that's easily answered by a another user with more SpecialK experience, i think a Discord server might be good for that so i created one:

https://discord.gg/FECq6PP

Everyone is welcome and the first rule is: if kaldaien decides to join, don't mention or message him for support. If he sees your question and feels entitled to answer it he will. Also if i see you helping others a lot you will get the @Helper role.

[Aemony]

There are no official Discord servers yet and probably won't be until Kaldaien feels that he needs one, at which point he or someone else of the regulars will create one. This have been a discussion touched upon by the regular members on and off for the last couple of years or so.

Up until that point, the Steam Group Chat is the "most official" real-time communication place available.

I don't know what Discord servers the rest of the regulars frequents, but myself can be most commonly found in the PCGamingWiki Discord server: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamingWiki:Discord

In general though the best support is typically received through the relevant forum thread or the general purpose Special K threads, where either Kaldaien, me, JBeckman, Holy, or any of the other regular people frequents and monitors.

[blu]

I just think there needs to be some place where everything is compacted and ordered. Everything i've seen about SpecialK is kind of all over the place. In the discord i will try to keep everything simple but informative and supportive, also it's not really easy to use Steam's chat. It has improved but it still needs a lot more work before it can be compared to Discord.

[Aemony]

Originally posted by blu:

I just think there needs to be some place where everything is compacted and ordered. Everything i've seen about SpecialK is kind of all over the place. In the discord i will try to keep everything simple but informative and supportive, also it's not really easy to use Steam's chat. It has improved but it still needs a lot more work before it can be compared to Discord.

The forum is that place. There's no purpose of having unofficial places of discussions that doesn't see some activity from Kaldaien, so any attempt of creating such a place is basically dead on arrival.

Regarding GitHub and GitLab, those could've been improved and whatnot if Kaldaien decided to grant me higher permissions to the repositories, which I've brought up a couple of times in the past, but since he haven't they aren't. There's also an argument to be had about whether doing such a thing is for the benefit or not, as it is sure to impact Kaldaien's workflow at least in some ways (even the simple act of cleaning up the release page on Special K's GitHub is sure to be disorienting).

Generally speaking, we'd long since gotten used to it and link people to the various resources when necessary. E.g. the Special K PCGW article have a list of all (or at least most) of Special K's custom game mods and where to find them for easy installing: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Special_K#Custom_game-specific_mods