The Discord Stuff (Patreon)

• If you use Discord and are annoyed, I'm sorry.
• If you don't know what Discord is and are weirded out by the recent notifications you may have received, I'm also sorry.

But fear not, it'll all be sorted out.

Discord is a text & voice chat platform. For a while now there has existed a Captain Disillusion Discord derver, started by a fan and spun up into a sizable community. I sometimes go on there to chat with viewers and do Q&As.

Patreon has a feature that lets a creator integrate Discord so that people who become patrons automatically gain access to his/her Discord server, and to different channels therein, depending on the pledge.

I didn't have this feature enabled, but today I figured, let me enable it!

And let's just say... the logistics of how it's implemented could be improved.

Here are answers to the three questions you might currently have, to the best of my knowledge:

I received an "invitation" for this Discord thing. Do I have to do this?

Not at all. You're welcome to check it out, but ignoring the invite will not affect your patronage in any way.

I use Discord and now I've suddenly been added to your server without being asked!

I'm sorry about that. Automatic joining makes sense for new patrons, but suddenly adding existing users to the server as soon as I enabled the feature is weird. I wish Patreon didn't have it set up that way. I've heard from some people who tried to un-join the server that they got re-added back to it, but that subsequently they were able to un-join. I don't know what the deal is... but please let me know if you continue having trouble un-joining the server.

I'm glad to be on the Discord server, but I'm not able to visit the private channels my pledge entitles me to.

This seems to be a byproduct of me enabling the feature in the middle of the month. I'm hoping that the access will start to work when the month rolls over and your pledge is charged. If this doesn't happen, please let me know immediately!

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This is what I get for trying to be hip and cool.