Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24510587-20171210195728/@comment-19164168-20171210234942

HambleBee wrote:

TL;DR - Group DMs. Yeah, Group DMs and Friends list can easily substitute for this.

DR; As much as this idea is tempting to implement, if a group of friends in the Discord channel or outside the channel wish to discuss a specific RP (or RPs) or anything else in private, they can just use the Group PM feature by clicking on their Friends list and clicking the icon left of the @ sign on the upper right of the app and/or program.

New instances of different Group DMs can be made to house specific people only as well, the creator being able to add the people they desire to add so long as they're on their Friends list. If someone wanted to stop being bothered by @ functions concerning them in for example "#general" text channel, they can easily mute notifs from that specific text channel, or mute notifs from the server altogether. If a Group DM's users want one or more users gone, they can simply ask the creator to remove said user/s, and block them if necessary. If the owner is the one being problematic, the upset ones can easily do the same to them as well.

Another problem I also see is cluttering, which can happen if one text channel is created after another RP unless one channel for one canon is made and devoted to discussing topics about said canon. This option can also be proven poor if the group of users simply just wish to use Group DMs and keep it up for practically a lifetime so long as the creator doesn't close it on purpose or accident, for one reason or another such as privacy (which is unfortunately becoming more and more lost these days.) ReDquinox wrote: Not everyone has everyone in their friend list. And besides, having everything in one place is better than having a number of scattered group DMs.

Turning off mentions in a channel or server mutes any and all mentions, even the ones that might concern you. In this shape, people can easily and quickly mention only the group of people they're referring to.

It doesn't clutter at all, as people will only be able to see the channels for which they have the appropriate roles.

TL;DR: Group DMs do not substitute. Care to explain this?

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On topic, no, I did not mean a server's capacity to carry really large amounts of people. I meant the capacity for channels. There's a limit for this too, and not everyone likes staff members like Bureaucrats spying into their own businesses by peeping quietly on their Rp/Canon/Content/etc. channels, even if just RP-related concerns as I have mentioned before. People within a thread (like DM and so on) can also easily look up their older posts via the search tool using specific words, or simply scrolling up and up until they find it.

Fun fact: Roles can be easily placed upon a cloned channel in Discord to avoid the hassle of establishing new roles for those that already have it on the original.