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I want to strongly advocate for discord server too! (is there already a server?)

Communicating on IRC feels like sending FAX messages
I tried a few times, nobody ever answere me there. There is no chat history..

If u want to ask a single question about game - creating a forum topic feels cumbersome and the reply timer might be in days or weeks.

I get that the game is strongly tied to an IRC and migrating to (or setting up) something else has a lot of friction with it...
I'm very gratefull for BTPro still functioning all these years (I played few years back for a while) and It's super awesome that there is still a community of players enjoying OpenTTD. I'd like to help that community grow/keep rather than watching it die out. Also I would be more than happy to share some of my acquired gaming knowledge to newer players and it's simple not possible to do it here.

So here is my offer:
I can help someone (admin or moderators) to setup a discord server including channels, roles and right, bots etc.
---- OR ----
Make it myself and then grant those people roles there.

I've experimented with discord bot and I am able to setup a two-way communiaction between irc<->discord
which can help OGs use their prefered communication style

TL;DR;
If there is a desire to have a discord server, but setting it up is too much time - I'm your man and I can help. Just let me know and we can discuss the details and preferences.


PS: While writing this message the forum froze and I had to do it once again.. iirc this was happening to me 6years ago too :/

Hi Aldoras

Yeah, the forum software and its theme hasn’t changed much during the years
Welcome back by the way

I am currently developing a new server controller which also has a Discord bridge instead of IRC to control the servers.
However, its not ready yet and i’m struggling with time a bit (as usual)

github.com/Frank-0G/Sentinel

This is the Github source of the controller we (N-Ice (Chucky)) and myself are drafting, take a look and experiment with it if you like pull request are always welcome!

I will continue with the development of Sentinel for now, if I switch to that controller we will also have Discord!