📢 @mentions

Right, right... But most occ kinda is there though.
I'm in games that do have a discord server and some people prefer to use the GP ooc thread.

Whereas I've been in nearly two dozen games, and only one had a discord channel (which was never used, but the game quickly died anyway). I don't know whether it's to be encouraged.

I am very reluctant to promote more reliance on Discord. The site features should work without outside tools.

Everyone here is using GP, not everyone is using Discord. Splitting the community is very dangerous, many a community has died because of such splits, when only some members are part of import discussions.

Agreed. I like having ooc on discord but many games I've been in had it on site. And not everyone has or wants discord so I think GP should stay the default, not the pushed option

I think I might be in the minority about using Discord to send notifications. I like it, to be honest. I like being notified when someone has something they want to ask or tell me, or reference something I've discussed. I wish there was a way to send a notification to my phone when a game I'm in is updated because I hate playing the F5 game. "Hey, it's been an hour, let's check GP aaaaand...nope."

I know not everyone feels that way, but I figured I can be the dissenting voice :)

I don't think anyone is debating the value of a more immediate notification system, but I don't think Discord is the right way to do that.

Hopefully v2 will have 'desktop notifications' from the browser and mobile push notifications as well (though that might require an App).

Getting the emails working on time seems like the obvious solution.

But this is about @mentions, which I think is a good idea, not about Discord.

Right, but until there's a phone app (big 'if' there) Discord may be the only easy way to implement push notifications (other than email, which can be quite lagged). There's a lot of users that don't use GP on a desktop often, if at all. I'm around 50/50 on desktop/phone usage.

How many people here have iOS phones?

Might be a good subject for a poll in the General Chat forum. I'm an Android user.

Or check the analytics. @keleth do you have those?

This one's complicated. There's zero question that Discord can be used very effectively for OOC chatter and notifying when people owe / need to see something in the game. I've been using it that way for Tavern Keeper games for a couple of years now, and it works really well. And it does suck to have to rely on a different tool, and to potentially split the community. Not even "split" -- it's more like an impediment to its evolving and growing and maturing.

This is why I suggested @mentions to begin with. Email notifications do me no good -- I skim email once a day and check it thoroughly every few days. I try to keep up with all the traffic on the site, but sometimes I can't, and this is where @mentions could help as well since you can bring the focus right to the post in question.

I'm an iPhone user, btw.

See GP thread for discussion. (GitHub)