Projects that fail
Tags: Personal, Blogpost, Discord

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Howdy ho hi everyone,

When I thought about what my next post was supposed to be about, I thought it would be talking about a game as part of my former blog, and it was planned to talk about games. However, plans changes when log term projects and dreams are shattering right in front of you, and gaming is not really the thing you want to talk about. For the past couple of years, I have had one hell of a journey on the communication platform Discord (For those that doesn't know what Discord is I will have a short description below.) both from being part of various communities to being part of managing communities to having my own community. Lately, the latter has been more struggling than first imagined which is why all my other projects, including my blog, came in as a second.

What is Discord

Discord is a modern communication platform created in 2015 with the focus on making Gaming communities for games, a place to chat in text, and voice with friends you were playing with. It has later evolved into being a space online that people gather. There are formed communities about games and study groups, book clubs, and everything you can really form a community about. These communities are also referred to as Discord servers, which you as a user join, once you join the server, you can see all the other members there is in the server and all the channels you can write or talk in. Channels have different topics where you talk about that topic, and that is pretty much how Discord works in a simplified version.

The road to owning a Discord Server.

I joined Discord back in 2018. As a friend, I think it was running a Discord server, and I got interested in what it was all about. I didn't know that places like these existed online as I had never really been up for social media. Still, I quickly got into it and enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends based on similar ideas and interests. It was sad to say that nothing lasted forever and people either left or became inactive to the point where my friend didn't want to run the server anymore as people seemed not to care and eventually deleted it. I have since then been in countless servers and even been a moderator in some large servers and been trained by people in managing a Discord server. I thought it was about time to make my own, which I did about a year and a half ago.

Managing a Discord Server

Having a Discord server is tons and tons of work for nothing is ever easy. I wanted to make a place of people to gather and make friends. People who may have a hard time doing that because they feel they are outcasts in those high-paced servers where you are a nobody are quickly overlooked or even ignored. Setting up the server was easy enough. Getting members to join is a challenge. Getting people to chat and be active and even take part in the server became even more challenging even with everything I have learned the past few years nothing seems to work. And it’s not like people didn't know what they were getting into for the server's advertising on server lists that people used to join the server, explained it honestly what the server was for and what to expect. Guess the server's topic is not what people want even though tons of people are looking for places like that when you ask what people are looking for.

There have been moments where people join and are active for quite a bit of time and bring life into the server, and we all have fun for a bit of time, but eventually, that dies down again, and people stop talking.

From a semi-active place to a dead place

over the past few months after the server has been going on for the better part of 1 and a half year, the server's activity has dropped with 800%, which is the point where you as a community owner feels like you have done something wrong. You have failed! And it can be hard if not impossible, to get back up on the horse. I want to succeed, and for those regulars who are active, I don't want to let them down, it’s just hard to think that you are not when 5 people are active out of 98 people.

Which is why the server I created is going through a massive change that hopefully will review it and be great. Or I suck and should stop projects that are way in over my head.

If you are reading this, and interested in knowing more about the community that I run, feel free to join:

For what it’s worth this turned out to be more of a self-pity post and a cry for help than actually anything else. I just wanted to explain my situation and why I lost interest in my former blog when the mood is destroyed.