Thanks all of the people who joined us we are already 14 members including 2 administrators me and Esteban. Discord has passed this daily test, it supports markup which means you can paste Pharo code with Smalltalk syntax highlighting, it previews links, edit messages, has YouTube and Twitch integrations. I also tested the mobile clients for iOS and android. Everything looks like it works fine, a search facility is missing but this is to be added by the development team later on.
Now what remains is to test twitch and YouTube integration and also video and voice chat. Talking about twitch I decided to make screencasts for Pharo , probably one hour long. The advantage over YouTube tutorials is that it's real time so we can make the lesson interactive and you can ask me questions and chat with me during the screencast. I will alert when the screencast will take place with a later post. On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 at 15:42, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been aware about Discord for some time now , but I never used it > because both Pharo and Unreal channels are on Slack. From my small > experience with it, it seemed much more superior to Slack with added bonus > that is completely free (open source ) and with no restrictions unlike > Slack. > > But something happened suddenly yesterday, I opened Unreal in Slack and it > was gone with a notification that they moved to Discord. So I grabbed this > opportunity to create a Pharo server you can join here > > https://discord.gg/F6nAd > > Discord works as web apps but also you can download as an app for Windows, > Macos , iOS and Android. > > I will be around in Discord because I generally browser Unreal channels. > The nice thing about Discord also is that it offers both audio and video > chat for free which can work great for Pharo sprints. Anyway there is no > harm on testing it. >
