Discord

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Description

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Discord is the main platform used for SourceCred community chats and calls.

Contributions

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SourceCred Discord Plugin

Status: proposal Champion?: None yet. Help much appreciated. Description: Right now, it’s impossible to earn any cred from participating in our Discord. That’s unfortunate, since people definitely do create value there. An easy way to patch this would be to make certain reactions (e.g. the reaction that @Beanow added) flow cred. Concretely: we could have a plugin that reads the history of our Discord server, and finds every message with at least one reaction. Then, it…

The SourceCred Logo is featured in many places on the SourceCred Discord forum.

References

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Discord => Keybase?

Not sure if anyone here cares, but apparently Discord has terrible privacy https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/search/?q=discord&restrict_sr=1 https://privacyspy.org/product/discord/ https://tosdr.org/#discord Keybase is kind of like Discord when it comes to features (public/private chats and lots of teams). In addition Keybase is e2e encrypted, gives users a cryptographic key they can use to sign data, and creates a web of trust with contacts. A lot of the Aragon teams use it and it’s awesome. …

Radio Show on Discord

Following some fascinating discussions yesterday on the Dischord #General voice channel, @decentralion and I were talking about doing a weekly “radio show” on Dischord. The idea being that, while Discourse is great (and picking up!), it’s very time consuming. Not everyone has the time to read and respond to long, in-depth posts. Additionally, as we observed yesterday, live conversation can allow for a faster, more free flowing exchange of ideas than possible with text. We were thinking it could…

Discord Login

Since we’re using Discord as our main chat, do we want to allow Discord users to login to SourceCred with their Discord profiles? This could improve the onboarding flow from people just chatting about the project to people contributing to Initiatives and stuff.