Albert Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 We've setup an AtariAge Discord server, which has been a common request for the last year or so. To join the server, you will need to use the following link, or click on the Discord widget that's sitting on the front page of the forum. https://atariage.com/forums/discord/invite/Members/ If you already have a Discord account, you'll be able to link your forum and Discord accounts. Upon joining the Discord server, your username and avatar from the forum will be carried over. We have created several text channels to loosely mirror some of the forums here. Please take a moment to read the rules once you join the server. We will not hesitate to ban people from Discord who are not following the rules. If you have any questions or you have any problems accessing the AtariAge Discord, please post them here. Enjoy! ..Al 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 When I click register, it wants an e-mail address, username, and password. Are we supposed to use the same as what we use at AtariAge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 30 minutes ago, Random Terrain said: When I click register, it wants an e-mail address, username, and password. Are we supposed to use the same as what we use at AtariAge? Discord is completely separate from AtariAge. You will need to create an account on Discord if you want to use it. The synchronization between AtariAge and Discord will carry over your username and avatar once you link your AtariAge account to your Discord account. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Pac Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I got a different issue, I clicked on the link and I was part of the group. But when I fired up my Discord software, the group was nowhere to be found. The best I can figure out is I need an invite link to the actual group on Discord. To clear things up to me Discord is a separate login. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 8 minutes ago, Classic Pac said: I got a different issue, I clicked on the link and I was part of the group. But when I fired up my Discord software, the group was nowhere to be found. The best I can figure out is I need an invite link to the actual group on Discord. To clear things up to me Discord is a separate login. The invite should work, it's especially odd that you were in the group and now you cannot see it. Discord will always be a separate login from the forum, but if you were already logged into Discord it will generally pick that up and just link your accounts. Otherwise it'll prompt you to login first or create a new Discord account. I'll create and send you an invite privately and we can see if that works. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 On 5/28/2020 at 11:30 AM, Albert said: The invite should work, it's especially odd that you were in the group and now you cannot see it. Discord will always be a separate login from the forum, but if you were already logged into Discord it will generally pick that up and just link your accounts. Otherwise it'll prompt you to login first or create a new Discord account. I'll create and send you an invite privately and we can see if that works. ..Al I've seen that happen in the past when cookies from multiple discord accounts get tangled up. Clearing the cache and\or deleting cookies should clean that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 On 5/26/2020 at 9:02 PM, Albert said: If you already have a Discord account, you'll be able to link your forum and Discord accounts. Upon joining the Discord server, your username and avatar from the forum will be carried over. I linked my accounts, but my avatar has not carried over. Please disregard. I manually uploaded my Avatar in Discord. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 I still don't know what discord is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 9 hours ago, Cafeman said: I still don't know what discord is. I’m just getting into it myself. I guess it’s meant for real-time chatting via text, video or VoIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 1 minute ago, sramirez2008 said: I’m just getting into it myself. I guess it’s meant for real-time chatting via text, video or VoIP. Yes, that's exactly what it is, real-time chat. It'll mostly be just text, although Discord does support audio chat and more recently I think, video chat. I'm fine with just text, I don't need to audio or video chat over Discord. It's basically an evolution of IRC, which was pretty primitive compared to modern chat apps like Discord. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I miss IRC. There were times the lag between IRC servers would get so bad, you'd end up with groups of people several minutes out-of-sync with each other. It made for some pretty funny exchanges as completely random answers from the past would drift into the middle of a current conversation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 I joined today. My cup avatar isn't shown on discord. Do i need to do something like add a connection? I don't see a place in discord to upload a new avatar image. Update - I found out how to change avatar. Also, animated avatars don't work on discord unless you pay. Fyi all! Ps: discord is weird! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 It is weird, and it is easy to loose track of things if you are not on after several days. P.S. I miss IRC too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) Not meaning to complain, but just gotta be honest... Am I the only one who misses the chat feature that AtariAge used to have? I mean I like to discuss video games as much as the next guy, but there's so many specialized areas in Discord...It feels like all the standard and fascinating random conversation gets lost. I mean a discussion of one topic would seem better served as a topic on AA...Chat always seemed more like, well a place for AtariAge fans to chat (about anything)... Anyway, the Discord feature is nice...I just prefered the old chat for some reason. PS I wasn't online in the early days, Was the old chat IRC or something else? Edited June 20, 2020 by GoldLeader Edit: Thought I better ask a dumb question LOL... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 The chat we used to have was made by Invision as a paid module for the forum. While it was integrated into the forum, it was extremely poor in features compared to Discord. You could only have a single chat room, you couldn't upload images or other media, there was limited chat history, permissions were very weak, and it could only be used if you were already a member of the forum. I don't see Discord taking away much from discussion here. Yes, people will casually talk about topics that are already discussed in the forum, but if you want to have a more meaningful, long-term discussion, the forum is much more suited to that. Given that Discord is open to anyone, it's also another tool to help promote AtariAge and bring new members to the site (including the forum). Also a good way to introduce more people to homebrew games who might not otherwise have seen them. There is a feature that lets me display content from the forum in Discord (in a read-only "stream" of posts from the forum), which I've already played around with but haven't turned on just yet as I'm waiting for something to be changed. That will further help tie Discord and the forum together. ..Al 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Good idea trying to link Discord with the forum, so it doesn't become yet another autonomous AtariAge community. I sometimes feel like the Facebook group and the forum live separate lives with different sets of users and different types of discussions. Some people on Facebook don't even seem to know that the standalone forum exists, or at least don't seem to visit it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 What is Facebook? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Still waiting for a MySpace login Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 12 hours ago, Jinks said: What is Facebook? Please stay innocent and don't seek that answer. ..Al 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprian Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 is AtariAge Discord alive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrohepcat Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 The Discord invite on the atariage homepage has expired. Is this an active discord? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drchuckradio Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 I tried joining it myself, and got the error Invalid OAuth2 redirect_uri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterMotorola Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 9 hours ago, drchuckradio said: I tried joining it myself, and got the error Invalid OAuth2 redirect_uri. I got the same error trying Discord for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Finally getting into Discord itself and I'm getting the same error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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