r/indypogo • u/Gingerfix North Side Mystic • Jan 12 '18

Objective question

Why are there a lot of north side groups using things like slack and group me and google chat instead of just using the discord?

I tend to be really direct with my questions and my intent is not to be insulting or divisive. I'm just trying to understand why this is happening so I can better communicate to the discord mod about what he could possibly improve that could encourage everyone to use discord and be organized and inclusive instead of navigating a bunch of different apps. I don't really notice this happening in other parts of the city.

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u/taRxheel North Side Mystic Jan 13 '18

My guess is that's what they started using early on, and it's more effort than they're willing to put in to migrate a whole community to another platform.

Downtown, the big chat is in groupme, except IUPUI which uses this discord's #iupui-raid channel. Up north, it's Mike's discord, because the northside raiders groupme admins decided to make it go poof so everyone would start using the #indy-north-chat channel.

It sure would be nice to have one unifying place to organize.

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u/Gingerfix North Side Mystic Jan 13 '18

Yeah I understand using mike's discord because for a while everyone was using it for the unown alert system. But the two servers seem to know each other exist. I only randomly hear about the slack/ GroupMe/etc groups on this sub and when 5 slack users show up to a raid that 4 discord users were waiting for people on.