General Chat?

People are still welcome to chat in the Alliance slack's public rooms. We expect a minimum of good behavior, but I've rarely had problems with that. If you need an invite just send me a PM or ask anyone else already there to get you an invite.

There are several other large groups that are welcoming to everyone as well.

I chose the neutral option since I don't think you'd get large scale adoption of yet another meta group chat but I'm not opposed to the idea.

I think the more communities, the merrier -- Discord is better for this because there isnt a photo upload maximum -- good effort @THEMAGICkMAN

I voted based on what seemed like the closest thing to "other", but my real answer would be "yes, on any and all chat apps (Line, Whatsapp, and Kakao would be merely a few other possibilities in principle) open for consideration".

While on a larger scale I understand that there were some significant, irreconcilable differences among various groups in the original Slack general channel, and everyone ultimately had to go their separate ways and make the decisions they thought best in order to continue enjoying the game and maintaining the subcommunities they valued most, personally I was always sad to see the community dissipate from one massive aggregation of players into a few large subfactions, since I loved the idea of being able to share a passion for this game with hundreds of other people all in one location, and the reality of having a spontaneous out-of-game channel that was almost never devoid of conversation for more than a few minutes at a time.

By now, most seem to have moved past the worst of the schism from several months ago, but I'm not sure that's true to such an extent that reestablishing a massive central channel where everyone on all sides wanted to congregate together, as opposed to could congregate together, would be possible at this stage (especially since the latter type of channel already exists on both apps, and probably in multiple servers within each app).

With all of that said, I'm always in favor of expanding the inclusiveness of the community in this game whenever possible, so if there's a novel way to do that on a broader scale while effectively mitigating personal attacks, harassment, and divisive drama in the face of all of the inevitable disagreements that are bound to arise from time to time within such a large group, then I'd tend to support any efforts to that effect, regardless of which platform(s) were used.

Let's just do it then. I voted discord since I don't use slack and am not fond installing yet another communication app, but in the end I'll probably join anywhere. Drama, whatever it was, should not hinder us, a bit drama is good for popcorn salesmen. And those who don't like the idea, don't need to participate. 

Okay. I'll give this a shot. Not really my kinda thing but maybe it won't be so bad. 

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