[Colonol Dekker]

It seems a bit slow in here the last few weeks.

That makes me sad,  I may not contribute as much as I'd planned to before my illustrious EOD career but I'm really happy I still get to check in and see the same website I've been frequenting for nearly 20 years.

Are there any other fs2 boards people use?

[mjn.mixael]

Most of the daily activity happens on Discord now.

[Novachen]

I think HLP is still the most active Freespace Board, by far.

As far as i can tell, nearly all Forums in the web are dying. Forum boards are so 2000...

[Iain Baker]

Yup, lots of stuff happing on Discord now. New platform, but the same old faces :-)

[DefCynodont119]

Gonna call myself out:

[Novachen]

I even was on HLP's discord for a while... until it suddenly vanished from my serverlist.
Maybe i got kicked or even banned. No idea. Was not surprised actually after i found out, that people started to talk about me behind my back.

But well, so i am sticking more to the Forums again. Even it got much more difficult to get in touch with some people now. But well, i have to live with it and at least i am still allowed to be here.
So, i think every one is also using IRC in 2051 who was kicked from Skype, Slack and the Galactic Singularity   

[Strygon]

I plead guilty, your honor. (cuz I haven't been posting much here recently cause I don't have much work to show off)

In all seriousness, personally I see the forum as a site for more formal and permanent messages, with the Discord acting as the more informal and rapid fire real time communications place. Of course, others may differ from that.

[Dilmah G]

Yeah I feel that 100%. The vibe has changed a lot since I was a regular but the Discord has just as many (if not more!) discussions than the boards used to have back in the day.

[Mobius]

Discord is not a replacement to the forums.

It's a way to get in touch with community members in mere instants and get immediate feedback on a number of quick queries, but it doesn't in any way replace a public release thread, an eyecandy thread, a project board, and so on. Discord content is also at best quite volatile, relegated to the people who were paying attention to it during a given time span. I dare anyone to fall 150-200 messages behind any non critical Discord conversation, and read all of the messages he/she missed. And on a regular basis, I may add.

The forums are open to the rest of the world and are easily accessible to those who don't have an account. It's the best tool to get FreeSpace modding promoted and viewable to anyone willing to take a look. This can be determined by the number of views and guests HLP gets on a daily basis, and the fact that - at least in my country - there's an interesting number of players who lurk and play the mods without creating forum or Discord accounts. The forums are also the community's "healthometer" as perceived from such guests, who judge the degrees of activity of HLP based on public content, not volatile chat between a small and selected number of members.

As I clearly stated elsewhere, it's ok to have both supports because each one of them has its uses, but dropping either because "no one reads it" is a bad move, IMO.

[deathspeed]

I check into the forums every time I open my browser (Recent Unread Topics it is a homepage tab).  Discord is too ADHD for this old man - I cannot keep up with stuff and rarely go there, for this or any other games.  I do like it for resolving support issues, where there may be a lot of back and forth discussion in a short time.

[mjn.mixael]

Discord is not a replacement to the forums.

It's a way to get in touch with community members in mere instants and get immediate feedback on a number of quick queries, but it doesn't in any way replace a public release thread, an eyecandy thread, a project board, and so on. Discord content is also at best quite volatile, relegated to the people who were paying attention to it during a given time span. I dare anyone to fall 150-200 messages behind any non critical Discord conversation, and read all of the messages he/she missed. And on a regular basis, I may add.

The forums are open to the rest of the world and are easily accessible to those who don't have an account. It's the best tool to get FreeSpace modding promoted and viewable to anyone willing to take a look. This can be determined by the number of views and guests HLP gets on a daily basis, and the fact that - at least in my country - there's an interesting number of players who lurk and play the mods without creating forum or Discord accounts. The forums are also the community's "healthometer" as perceived from such guests, who judge the degrees of activity of HLP based on public content, not volatile chat between a small and selected number of members.

As I clearly stated elsewhere, it's ok to have both supports because each one of them has its uses, but dropping either because "no one reads it" is a bad move, IMO.

Where did anyone ever suggest dropping either one? WTF are you on about?

Additionally, this is a very *ahem* old way of looking at things. Younger generations abhor forums and thrive in mediums like Discord. Look at Spart_N. We had to basically beg him to create a forum account after he played nearly half of HLP's content. Forums are for dinosaurs (of which many of us are...) and if we want to be relevant to younger gamers, we need need to change with the times.

I even was on HLP's discord for a while... until it suddenly vanished from my serverlist.
Maybe i got kicked or even banned. No idea. Was not surprised actually after i found out, that people started to talk about me behind my back.

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[Mito [PL]]

Now, while most was said here, I'd also like to just mention that the forum is still my preferred way for more stable and... permament messages. That is, for announcements, effortposting and bringing constructive feedback to modders. Sifting through hundreds of messages or dozens of mentions on the discord would get extremely annoying in such uses.

[Scourge of Ages]

I like it here, and like others have mentioned, Discord servers move too fast for what I'm here for. Even if what I'm here for is just gendisc and saying hey to you guys.

[Mongoose]

No one's getting rid of anything.  The forums and Discord each serve their own purpose: the former for announcements, release posts, and longer-term discussions where it's important to be able to reference the entire conversation; and the latter for quick chats and real-time feedback/troubleshooting.  Each one complements the other well.  One of the goals going forward is to try and get Discord more prominently integrated into the site, so that there's more synergy between both forms of community interaction.

[The E]

I even was on HLP's discord for a while... until it suddenly vanished from my serverlist.
Maybe i got kicked or even banned. No idea. Was not surprised actually after i found out, that people started to talk about me behind my back.

You are not now and, to the best of my knowledge, have never been banned or, for that matter, kicked from the HLP Discord.

[Mongoose]

I'm not sure the Discord has outright banned anyone outside of an odd bot or two.  Some temporary kicks, but those go away after a bit.

[The E]

We currently have 9 people on our permaban list, one of which has since deleted their account. All the others were either spambots or people who were so disruptive that they needed to go; it should be noted that it's been some time since someone was disruptive enough to warrant a blanket ban like that.