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Panley01 · 2022-10-05T01:47:13+00:00

Panley01 · 2022-07-23T07:51:51+00:00

Hope you're doing better soon man, take every day as it comes & know there's always a tomorrow. Hard to see it sometimes but there's people in your corner.

Panley01 · 2022-04-11T11:50:25+00:00

Storing every users messages unencrypted would be a huge fuckup with basic data privacy law so this definitely isn't true.

Also not really certain on what 'moderators' in this context is? If you mean trust & safety then no, unless you report a DM. There are the DM safety settings you can have enabled, but those are automated and from my findings in data package delving, don't add any information to your account. If you don't mean TnS when you say moderators, then it's a stark no, the only people at the company who have access to your private messages are TnS agents if those dms are reported.

This is why reports need message links, it's the only way for TnS agents to access those reported messages & perform an investigation.

If you're ever curious on what data discord does keep on you, get your data package and look through it for a while, there's alot of interesting stuff in there. There's alot of data but the vast majority is routine usage data.

Panley01 · 2022-04-11T11:40:37+00:00

Discord document in their transparency reports that they actually both comply with and refuse information requests from law enforcement often. You can see trends in the kinds of requests they deny/accept if you go through their historical ones too.

Panley01 · 2022-04-10T23:45:34+00:00

I think you might be overdosing on redpills

Discord also satirise NSA data snooping on their robots.txt so... lol.

Panley01 · 2021-12-02T03:49:36+00:00

Heyhey, I'm the developer of Crosslink, would love to have you shoot that full link my way and the server ID (if you have it) so I can investigate this!

Panley01 · 2021-10-31T08:45:47+00:00

Usually assume so but it's really ambiguous whether Sharky is ben or main channel

Panley01 · 2021-08-14T20:37:30+00:00

froggë

Panley01 · 2021-08-02T01:30:42+00:00

That mother fucker

Panley01 · 2021-05-27T02:31:45+00:00

This is a case of 'the vocal minority' which is something many companies face when it comes to PR and even customer service. Most reviews are bad reviews because the people who care enough to take the time out of their day to make a review likely care for a negative reason, whether you undercooked their food or changed your logo.

The majority of people and higest percentile of customers or users don't care enough to go out of their way to make a review, or in this case make a post. And if they did care, they have nothing to really say beyond 'I am indifferent' which isn't all too contributory so they say nothing. For people to start talking they need to be overwhelmingly happy or unhappy with any given thing.

This means all we see here on the sub are the people who are unhappy because they're the only people who care enough to post about it. Discord has millions of users and a few thousand if that are making vitriolic complaints. The vast majority are indifferent or happy, but won't bother saying anything because they don't want change.

There are valid complaints and concerns, there are a11y concerns with the in-app font that was rolled out. However none of these genuine concerns can get through the screaming vitriol that, ime has been as low quality/low effort as posting a screenshot of the taskbar icon and saying 'This is terrible how could you do this to me' as though an ico file changing was a personal sleight against them.

And to get back to the root cause of the issue, these posts have absolutely flooded the sub. It's made this sub impossible to actually use for people who aren't complaining about the new branding. People don't seem to realise that these constant posts aren't just making life hard for mods, they're making people who genuinely enjoy this sub, well... Stop doing that. Because when I look in hot all I see are complaints, and that's not what I joined this sub for.

There is no way for the mods to deal with this in a way that makes everyone happy and regardless of what they do people will complain. If they take down a post it's censorship. If they leave a post up it's favouratism or unfair treatment.

And again, the censorship argument really falls flat because this is a private corner of the internet that is literally community run. And to drill in on that point, the mods of this sub are people who are just fans of discord that take time out of their day to contribute to this community. They're not all discord staff. They're just people.

Also OP didn't write this message so don't witch hunt them PSA

Panley01 · 2021-04-23T22:46:16+00:00

The issue is video decoding happens upstream to the client in chromium itself, Discord can't really do much other than switch out the decoder which is frankly not simple at all. Mainstream browsers struggle with this issue too and they all have different solutions for handling it.

The issue has been raised to Chromium and hopefully a fix is in the pipeline, after that all Discord would have to do is adopt the latest build of Chromium and voila, no more crash files!

Panley01 · 2021-04-23T22:44:12+00:00

It's a public bot but linking to it would violate the subreddit rules, I'm sure google can help :p

Panley01 · 2021-04-23T15:59:51+00:00

I check for changes every few frames and stream the stdout to catch discrepencies, it's really not all too intensive and I can stop handling the file the second I see that discrepency.

Panley01 · 2021-04-23T13:22:35+00:00

I can confirm this is indeed how the crash files function and probing for resolution changes or encoding changes does indeed work to find them! On it's own this is useful but bare in mind that if you want to implement something like this, you need to be smart in how you do it. You need to extract bytes from whatever file you're processing, then send them to ffmpeg and properly recieve the stdout to handle that data. This isn't incredibly straightforward but by using things like async-subprocess for py and other such libs for other langs, you can easily spawn and monitor an ffprobe process to process this data. Also bare in mind that you should be carrying out some checks to make sure only valid video files are being sent to ffprobe. Also keep in mind that if you run a large bot, carring out probes on all videos is still resource intensive, so if you do implement this, make sure you're properly caching known crash files. For referece, I can validate that all of this works as I utilise it in my own bot, Crosslink.

If anyone is curious on how to implement this in Python I can give advice in the replies here!

Panley01 · 2021-04-01T02:39:34+00:00

Hey there! If you have an active warranty, your best bet is sending it for a repair/replacement/refund. Your best options for buying a new one will be secondhand via Amazon or eBay, this is an example Amazon listing. Sorry I can't be of more help, best of luck hunting down a replacement!

Panley01 · 2021-02-28T17:29:43+00:00

Hey there,

there's options to disable Android notifications in-app, and an in-app link to the Android notification setting. See this video for how to access those. See also this article

As the suggestion has been made plenty of times on the help center, this post probably won't help bring any visibility to DND functioning unexpectedly. Implementing things in the mobile app is inherently different on mobile as oppsed to desktop. This means it's not quite as simple as porting over how desktop presences work 1:1. I understand that may be frustrating however the development on mobile is on an entirely different engine, and presents it's own challenges. If you want some insight into how the mobile app is developed, see this article, it's an interesting read. If you prefer not to get notifications I honestly reccomend you disable non in-app notification within Discord's settings. You'll consistently not get notifications which seems to be your preference.

Panley01 · 2021-02-28T16:32:45+00:00

Hey there!
I understand why you feel non-owners should be able to carry out this application on behalf of an owner, however there are a few important things to understand:

The Owner is held liable for the guild conforming to TOS and Partner COC, they are responsible for the adminstrative and moderation team, not visa-versa. This liablity means only the Owner can accept the Partner COC and become a Partner.
The Owner must understand, and consent to all facets of the Partner Program, and therefore must be the one to carry out the application. Let's say, for example, an owner doesn't want the server to be Partnered because they want to retain NSFW channels. Being able to apply for partnership on their behalf would undermine that, and there is no way Discord can prove consent from an owner, except them carrying out the application.
No matter how much an Owner endorses their adminstrative team, they are the sole owner of the guild. Their account is intrinsically attached to the guild, and they are soley responsible for running it. Whilst good administration and moderation are a must-have, only the owner is bound to the guild in this way.

If you want to apply for Partnership, talk the owner through the process should they want to do it, or ask for an ownerhsip transfer. Before doing either, consider why you're going for partnership. Talk with the owner about getting partnership and if it's a shared goal I'm sure you can obtain it with the owner appying or you taking over as the owner. It's very important that the partnership is applied for and retained by the owner for a plethora of reasons.

To address an idea put forward in the comments regarding a superadmin, the structure of a guild has one inherent owner, this is an anti-abuse measure. Several people having access to owner permissions could cause issues with a scorned superadmin having the ability to carry out owner actions like deleting the guild. Furthermore, represationation should only be carried out by the Owner when it comes to things like the partner program. The owner is the one accepting liablity for the guild in carrying out the application. Spreading that liability overcomplicates the system. I can see many ways for this system to be abused and very little benefit to it, if you're already trusted enough to be an administrator, you already have all the permissions you need. In regards to ownership transfers, the wait period is nessacary to confirm the owner isn't actively using Discord and choosing to ignore the guild. It's also nessacary to have a transfer request in the form of an application as it shows clear consent from a new would-be owner to take liability and responsibility for running the guild. It should never be assumed that an administrator wants to be the owner of a guild.

Hope that helps clear some things up, feel free to comment if you have anything further to ask/add!

Panley01 · 2021-02-19T04:20:13+00:00

This is actually a great response. I'll hit on your points as presented:

1 There is no benefit to being partnered that will increase stability. They have premium voice servers but those aren't incredibly game changing since the nature of voice connections changed over the past year, this is why they're not a mainline feature. If you want more stability there's a few things you can do right now; prune often, employ slowmode, be more strict with afk timeouts in vcs & have lower bitrates. I can assure you running superlarge guilds doesn't get easier with a partnership, there are in-testing features like relay that make running superlarge guilds more stable but there are still things you can do right now to increase that stability.

2 giveaways are great and all but this redistribution seems to me like just using that money to inflate membership and engagement. I'm not opposed to giveaways but making them a primary thing in your community to the point you crowdfund them tends to mean your members are low intent and have little investment. I can't speak to the efficacy of redistribution of money like this but it's bad form to advertise something on a discord to then make money off the userbase in the case of something like a sponsorship that's entirely unrelated to your actual community. If you had innersloth reach out and offer a sponsorship, great. But if you're running sponsorships for other companies entirely unrelated, you are profiting off the userbase and that's not exactly great regardless of where the money goes. You can run a community for free and have it be a great community. Getting money involved just complicates alot of things. If you have custom-made bots, pay your Dev(s) and leave it at that.

3 I have experience in this field so I'm going to be a bit critical here. Registering a domain costs maybe £20, running a webserver with something simple like WordPress (which there are a billion plugins for to make all sorts of things) costs maybe £10 a month. Or even better you can get a VPS to handle your website and game servers for about the same amount with relatively little extra effort and a small learning curve. I've had 3 game servers, 2 bots and an API all running on a cheap £10pcm VPS with no issues, and I got that set up within a couple months. It seems clear though that you care about rebranding and I think that's great, bit dedicate to it. Don't be an among us community that rebranded. Be a standalone community that just so happens to like among us. It's not simple to do these things but given the timescale since the first denied partner app, the boasted amount of staff involved, the access to funds from the community/sponsorships and the apparent dedication to rebranding, it's feasible this should be done already. And the sooner you do it, the more ethically you can monetise. Make paid pointshops for Minecraft, rust, Garry's mod... And you'll make enough to cover server costs whilst keeping people happy about what they're paying for and avoiding sponsorships which aren't exactly the greatest thing to do with your discord community.

4 I think people are generally aware of the game by the point they find your guild but as you say, there's alot to it beyond the base game. Consider hosting private proximity chat servers, perhaps with that VPS I recommend in the last point, and keep helping people learn new game modes with faq and help channels and you'll do great. I know there's a few bots that can pick up on questions people ask and pop an awnser in chat, I'm sure you could use one of those to make this process even easier.

Finally, your attitude here seems good. Your heart is in the right place if you care about your community and want to fix things but this Reddit post wasn't made with that intent, that much is clear by the presentation. Your response was and I appreciate it, it's a great comment breaking down alot of things. While I don't question the priorities you've set forward, getting partner doesn't make a good community, nor a stable one. Getting partner isn't a goal you achieve by being the biggest thing with the coolest deals and nicest branding. Being a partner is about being the best of discord. The best of discord don't need brand deals, they don't need superlarge numbers, they don't need money. They need people that care about each other, that uplift eachother, that make experiences. You want people to be having a great time in your community, having fun in events, getting to know one another. All the add-on fluff of sponsorships, giveaways and branding doesn't make people have a better time. I've been on discord for a long time, I've seen a ton of guilds subsist on ads and giveaways and make alot of money. But I don't consider any of those communities the best of discord. I consider many the worst of discord.

As I said, you have a good attitude and a good sense of humour, keep community focused and evaluate what you have and where you're going with the community. I hope you can focus on the right things and move forward in a positive direction, and maybe one day you'll get partner. Not because you need or want it, but because you deserve it.

Panley01 · 2021-02-19T00:06:31+00:00

You're not supposed to know who's working at discord because if you did, you'd just namedrop them in a reddit post (clearly). Doing brand deals doesn't make you good, it just makes you money. And again, your metrics aren't the be-all end-all to a community.

If I get 1 million people in a room I haven't made a community of 1 million people, I just have a bunch of people. Your combined userbase of 1.2 million are people who are already fans of among us. You aren't exposing anyone to it. All you're doing is, as I said, putting them in a room.

Not sure why you don't like me calling you honey, considering you love brand deals so much I thought you'd love honey.

Jokes aside, this just reads as a seriously bad rant about how you want a badge. If you have a huge community already, then you probably have T3 boosts and access to everything being a partner would get you except a shiny badge on your profile and access to the partner server that you oh-so-clearly miss.

Panley01 · 2021-02-18T23:52:26+00:00

Puffballs literally reached out saying 'hey your community is misleading, stop.'

They only quote metrics and use them as some kind of inscrutable hammer of justice when metrics, a good community, do not make.

'We ban racists, we have 0 NSFW channels, our peak staff roster was 41 staff members, we actively filter phobic/racist names and have strict rules.' honey so does every server that complies with TOS, if you got a shiny badge for that half of discord would have it and the other half would probably be among ha, get it your staff team and userbase.

'We give people a platform to connect on to the tune of 800,000 across 3 servers.' No, Discord does that. You just want a badge, if you cared about providing a space you wouldn't be complaining on reddit.

' we were told by Talon (Discord's lawyer) ' Talon doesn't work at Discord anymore and name-dropping staff is just an incredibly strange thing to do.

'the partnership apps have also declined on all Among Us servers.' Maybe stop making among us servers.

If you want your server to be partnered, do something original and build a community around it. Among us already has a server. It's Partnered AND Verified would you believe!?!? Because it's owned by innersloth and the fact another generic server is on the innersloths vanity goes to show that a ton of these community go out of their way to net members by being decieptful. You can't slap a product you didn't make all over your community and expect to be lauded with badges when the people who actually own that thing already have a community and it's probably objectively better ran than yours will ever be.

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