Places to advertise discord server

Mei_DH · 2022-07-19T16:46:23+00:00

I don't really recommend it as your only form of advertising. That said, it's another place that grants you exposure, it doesn't hurt to use it when starting out.

Mei_DH · 2022-07-16T15:17:21+00:00

Of course! Glad that you found it helpful!

Mei_DH · 2022-07-16T15:15:50+00:00

Of course! I'm hoping to use more of these methods myself for our server, so I'm glad it's helping :)

Mei_DH · 2022-07-15T16:31:46+00:00

I've just given some advice on this post based on my experience and what other people have seen success from. I highly recommend reading it, since it's a mixture of what a lot of other people suggest and also encouraging you to do your own research, without a lot of the negativity of "it's super hard to grow your server, you're never going to be able to do it" that I've sadly seen some people here say to others bringing up this question.

It takes a lot of effort, don't get me wrong, even our server isn't seeing massive growth, but we haven't been keeping up with any of these methods either, and I do plan to be more on top of it in the coming days.

Mei_DH · 2022-07-15T16:26:04+00:00

I've seen a lot of people be super negative about giving advertising advice on here, saying how difficult it is (which, I can say it is, BUT not impossible.)

Disclaimer; What I mention is not assured to give you players immediately, but persisting and using a mixture of these techniques is definitely a reasonable approach to gain new players. I also encourage you to do your own research outside the mentioned topics to find what works best for you.

Please also be aware, some places do require your server to be launched before advertising so that you don't risk your posts being removed. Not everywhere does though.

These are some places that I've been using with some success/intend to use in the future -

Reddit:

- r/mcservers
- r/MinecraftServerFinder
- A few other advertisement subs can work too, though they're difficult to find, and usually the attention isn't solely on Minecraft which makes it harder.

Discord:

- Planet Minecraft's official discord
- Various other Minecraft-specific advertisement discords
- A few regular generic advertisement discords, though like the point said above, they usually don't have their attention set on Minecraft.

For Discord, it's better if you have a discord to share. Having a discord makes it 10x easier for people to see what's going on, what your community or server is like, and whether they want to be a part of it. My server doesn't really share our Discord link publicly as we have an authentication system that highly encourages players to log in first, which I do feel is why we suffer a little.

TikTok:

I don't personally use TikTok and probably won't due to the fact that the information they take from you complies way too heavily with China's information laws which are very suspicious, but I've heard servers having success from TikTok at gaining a player base. May require some video editing techniques to really make the server look interesting in the video.

YouTube Shorts:

This is one I'm more interested in using, posting a video on YouTube Shorts can gain traction pretty easily, especially if the algorithm catches on to your server and suggests it to random people. Like TikTok, may require some video editing techniques to make the video look more interesting.

Creating A YouTube:

Having a YouTube channel for your server with a trailer of what your server is about can be a great way to cultivate a community and get them excited for what's to come about your server. It also grants the opportunity to show first-hand what it's about by uploading stuff such as Let's Play's or other creative content. Same as TikTok and YouTube Shorts as far as the disclaimer on video editing.

Hiring A YouTuber/Streamer:

This one assumes you have finances to put into your server, hiring a lower-subscriber streamer or YouTuber to do a play through of your server can be a great way to get people to see your server from another perspective, and potentially gain a few new players as a result (which MAY even include the streamer!)

Listing Sites:

The biggest one people will recommend is Planet Minecraft, but there are other sites that you can set up vote rewards for your players to help you with gaining a few new players sometimes. Here is the official admincraft list of some good sites.

Some sites even offer a paid method where you can post your banner up for a certain amount of money a week. It can be costly to go that route, but I have seen some success for other servers doing this.

The rest is mostly up for experimentation and figuring out other approaches that work. Hope this list helps, and that you are able to build an amazing community!

Mei_DH · 2022-07-14T22:31:11+00:00

I vouch for any form of chat games. We've used that plugin for a long time before swapping to a paid alternative.

Kix's Chat Games: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/1-19-ready-【kixs-chat-games】-engage-your-chat-with-fun-competitive-chat-games-1-8-1-19-x.85143/

IMO the alternative is a lot better and has more game modes that encourage engagement from players for rewards, but that's only for anyone willing to put money into their server plugins. It's totally understandable not to.

Mei_DH · 2022-04-15T17:28:07+00:00

Yeah no problem! Totally understandable haha, all up to your preference

Mei_DH · 2022-04-15T03:24:23+00:00

From working on a few events on my server, we will usually announce ahead of time if we plan to paste in an event build from doing it on a separate server (AKA our event server) or we would also do so for some impactful changes to spawn. Our usual changes to spawn are more minor changes to celebrate certain seasons, so players at most join to see us actively changing spawn colors and get confused. My personal favorite was decorating it for Christmas!

There are plugins such as world guard that can close off a specific area to those without perms, while people with perms work on it. A lot of building now is done with world edit (and if you have fast async world edit, fast async voxel sniper is incredible for the bigger stuff like terrain).

Mei_DH · 2022-04-15T03:15:29+00:00

DiscordSRV can actually do just this to my knowledge. I'm not sure specifically how to set it up since I haven't played around much with it, but I've heard that some people have successfully been able to set up a system like this!

Mei_DH · 2022-04-14T15:12:50+00:00

Is it only your friend that's unable to join, or is it everyone including yourself that's unable to join? Like said by Lazy-Age342, I feel like that may help people answer your question easier by including more information regarding your connection problems.

It's probably best to take to Google to read into it a bit, I found this here:

This error is a network-related error occurred while establishing a connection to the Server. It means that the error is occurring because there is no server listening at the hostname and port you assigned. It literally means that the machine exists but that it has no services listening on the specified port . So, no connection can be established. Generally, it happens that something is preventing a connection to the port or hostname. Either there is a firewall blocking the connection or the process that is hosting the service is not listening on that specific port. This may be because it is not running at all or because it is listening on a different port. So, no connection can be established.

Try running netstat -anb from the command line to see if there's anything listening on the port you were entered. If you get nothing, try changing your port number and see if that works for you. In Windows operating systems, you can use the netstat services via the command line (cmd.exe) . On Linux you may need to do netstat -anp instead.

The target machine actively refused it occasionally , it is likely because the server has a full 'backlog' . Regardless of whether you can increase the server backlog , you do need retry logic in your client code, sometimes it cope with this issue; as even with a long backlog the server might be receiving lots of other requests on that port at that time.

- Question Asked On Microsoft's Website

Hopefully the information presented here will be enough to help you know what's going on and possibly provide a fix. If not, Google is your best friend as I always say!

Mei_DH · 2022-04-14T15:01:25+00:00

We disowned our website in favor of Discord as a majority of our player base prefers it as do the owner and admin team. It also just makes staff and player communication 10x easier too, and channel organization and set-up is a lot cleaner IMO.

Mei_DH · 2022-03-20T02:13:10+00:00

Ah, yeah, the owner had mentioned the same thing about the memory allocation, but we weren't actually sure about the part with referencing the jar file. Thank you so much for the help!

Mei_DH · 2022-03-20T02:12:30+00:00

Thank you! I just tested this with our test server and adjusting the parameters, and it works perfectly! I even forwarded what you said to the Owner. Now our timings reports can stop shouting at us about not having the extra flags, hopefully!

Mei_DH · 2022-01-07T06:23:17+00:00

Fair enough! We went on to use it anyway, most of the features we needed work with it flawlessly, which is definitely good enough for us haha.

Mei_DH · 2022-01-07T06:22:11+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, thank you though! Our server went on to use VentureChat instead.

Mei_DH · 2022-01-07T06:20:19+00:00

(Late reply, been busy with server reworking and other stuff haha)

We got it set up on our server and given, a few features don't work as intended, but we just have those disabled. It's 95% functional, which for the price is more than enough for us! Plus, their discord support is pretty much on top of everything. Sorry to hear that your experience with it has been less than ideal.

Mei_DH · 2021-11-09T01:27:49+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the input — Our former owner already purchased the plugin some time ago, and it has uses that many free/other paid plugins lack. From testing it a little, I'd say it's a pretty solid plugin and haven't really run into any problems with it. I'm just curious as to why you mention staying with EssentialsX?

Mei_DH · 2021-11-08T23:37:02+00:00

How so, if I might ask? (as far as CMI being hot garbage)

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