Last week, I got a heads up from JB, one of the awesome moderators of a brand-new Alabama Discord server. I wanted to pass that along to you folks, explain what it is, and hopefully enlarge both our community and theirs.
What is Discord?
Discord began back in 2015 as a way for gamers to chat to one another while live-streaming content or playing together. Soon after, it exploded into a variety of uses and functionalities.
First, it creates a series of community hubs (much like old BBS systems or Reddit). There are general chat areas, specific posts and topical areas within the Discord. Second, it is a real-time communication hub — you don’t only leave posts; users have the ability to communicate with you in real time like Slack, Messenger programs, or text messages. You are not just limited to texts/posts either. You can also send voice messages, post videos, send video messages and the like. It’s an all-in-one communication system, with a straight forward UI and an app that is not at all a resource hog.
There are no stupid human tricks to go through either. It’s fairly simple: you go the Discord you wish to join, create a user name, download the app (or use the desktop functionality), then jump into the conversation, post a message or thread, chat online and the like.
What is Tide Sports Discord?
Rather than paraphrase JB’s message to me, I’ll post it below in toto, to better explain what this community hosts.
I just wanted to pass along a concept I’ve been working and co-moderating on the past several months with an Alabama Discord server. It’s got all kinds of news aggregation on anything you could imagine, I often give film breakdowns, and it’s got good analysis for a quick, on the spot chatting.
It is like a chatting area of sorts; this would not be to replace anything, but more along the lines for a supplementary position of quick chats and news updates, plus I figure with all of the news at easy access with the server’s retrieval bots, it possibly makes finding source stories a bit easier as well.
It sounds like a really cool idea, and I’m happy to pass it along. For those of you that do not wish to use Discord, we probably be linking some of the cooler stories, breaking news, and film reviews in the future. And why not? The more sweet Crimson Tide #content, the better, right?
While it’s nothing you stay on all day, it is a neat adjunct to your favorite ‘Bama sites, especially if you’re looking for something very specific, and you want to reach out to some non-RBR folks. (I use Discord fairly often my self for modding Skyrim).
If you’re interested, here is the landing page (though I suspect they will have to change the name in the near future — Tuscaloosa News will sue them into oblivion for that “Tide Sports” branding).
Comments
Discord and RBR
A match made in that other place.
By Juggerott on 08.09.21 11:59am
I will NOT be paying extra for this #content sir.
I haven’t even gotten my #refund yet.
By CrimsonRon on 08.09.21 12:05pm
Too close for missiles...
Blocked at work
Lemma try the mobile
By PiperTJ on 08.09.21 12:26pm
I prefer it mobile.
… have yet installed on PC.
By Tokeisch on 08.09.21 4:34pm
Bama football, message boards, and litigation: Airwreck's wet dream.
By cecil.honeychurch on 08.09.21 12:51pm
Erik stealing my thunder
Warning: we talk about Dungeons & Dragons, treason, music, food, make fun of each other, etc.
So, you know, exactly like here, but in real-time.
By Hangover123 on 08.09.21 12:56pm
Airwreck is shilling a different discord than the Unofficial RBR discord
Unofficial RBR discord
#norefunds there either
By Kblair1701 on 08.09.21 3:10pm
>:(
#refund!
By Hangover123 on 08.09.21 7:08pm
You Sold Me on the D&D Mention
but I’m imagining it on game day where 100+ headset mics (not set to push-to-speak) create a feed back loop of too loud TV audio punctuated by random cursing ("Punting of 1st down again?!?!?") resulting in an abomination that sounds like Jimi Hendricks meets John Cage with a smidgen of a Pantera concert.
So yea, pretty cool.
By Crimson Cthulhu on 08.09.21 1:20pm
you know you done fucked up
By Ma Deuce on 08.09.21 1:26pm
Check the Body of the Text
References the article’s technology and the unintended consequences. Not Hangover’s entry. (58 words).
Title (7 words).
But the video is adorable. Cheers.
By Crimson Cthulhu on 08.09.21 2:20pm
you read the articles??? @@
By Ma Deuce on 08.09.21 2:21pm
Same 3 gifs on your page
You gonna make any more?
By PiperTJ on 08.09.21 2:25pm
I'd totally forgotten about it until I posted that
I’ll get back to it in short order.
By Ma Deuce on 08.09.21 2:27pm
Airwreck gonna twitch stream his forum reading/posting "activities"?
By Stroke Daddy on 08.09.21 2:01pm
I’m transitioning to the Twitch Thot phase of my career
By Erik Evans on 08.09.21 7:00pm
twitch thot lmao
If y’all have never looked, you should.
And count how much money them women make in 20 minutes.
It’ll make you curse your mother.
By Ma Deuce on 08.09.21 7:13pm
I am acutely aware of how much they bank.
But the real jobless apocalypse is going to come when OnlyFans shuts down adult content.
There are 31 million women on that platform selling all manner of stuff — from mild to wild — and a great many have never been in the workforce.
Just wait. That is going to make for months of depressing reading.
By Erik Evans on 08.09.21 8:29pm
ah, have they made mention of banning
OnlyFans or at least adult content on the platform? That will be a sad sight for a lot of people, lol.
By Ma Deuce on 08.09.21 8:41pm
That was a rabbit hole I could do without
Had no fn clue what this was about
Should NOT have gone googlin’ without filters at first.
JFC
#HowDoesRxBobDoIt?
By PiperTJ on 08.09.21 8:43pm
it's a wild ride, my man
By Ma Deuce on 08.09.21 8:52pm
Yup. They’re trying to go legit.
I suspect it’s for a future IPO.
By Erik Evans on 08.10.21 3:55am
I play a couple of games for which I occasionally watch content - mostly YT/rarely Twitch. However,
I get slightly depressed when I see somebody whose entire livelihood is based on playing a game for entertainment value or giving pointers of some sort. The one’s who do it as a hobby don’t bother me but the others? well I get a slight twinge of regret for them.
By Stroke Daddy on 08.10.21 7:14am
[Every football coach and player sheds a single tear.]
By cecil.honeychurch on 08.10.21 8:21am
Well played. But, as gamers we can all actually play the very same game we are watching them play.
By Stroke Daddy on 08.10.21 8:40am