Brazilian's Mapping Chat

Brazilian's Mapping Chat is Brazilian Mapping's official Discord server. Created on February 4th, 2018, it has grown to be among the biggest and most active mapping Discord servers. 
As of June 1st, 2024, it has 1008 members, being the 14th largest Discord server overall and the 5th largest channel-based server. Its most active day was August 3rd, 2019, with 23,422 messages sent on the GMT-3 timezone.
== History ==
=== Creation (February 4th, 2018) ===
The server was created by Brazilian Mapping on February 4th, 2018, three days after he published his first video, Alternate History of Europe: Episode I - "Failure". The server was intended as a place for discussion about his channel, being loosely based in Concordia's Shogunate.
=== The Silent Era (February 2018 - May 2018) ===
The first message of the server was Brazilian mentioning himself in #general-english. The first member other than himself was Khan Productions, followed by Braz.
For the next few months, the server had little activity. The most notable members at this time were Brazilian, Khan, Spicy, Ferum and Etiennal.
=== The Golden Era (May 2018 - October 2018) ===
==== Emerging from the silence (May 2018) ====
The first notable attempt to advertise the server was made in early May 2018, in the Order of the Edge. Two members joined as a consequence of this: Complex and Breton. Complex became notably active. After the upload of an Announcement Video in Brazilian's channel, Rayan had joined the server. 
==== Summer (June 2018 - August 2018) ====
Upon the upload of Episodes VI and VII of AHoE in late May and early June respectively, Rayan became increasingly active in the server, rising among the ranks along with Complex and others such as Marina. 
The five most active members - Brazilian, Etiennal, Complex, Rayan and Ferum - dominated the server at the time, and after early July, corresponded exactly to the active Admin team. With several "chill conversations" at the time, from Complex talking about the 2018 World Cup to Rayan theorizing about AHoE, and even voice chats in which Ferum played his flute, this era is generally referred to as the Golden Era of BMC, free of any kind of degeneracy.
==== First Rayan Crisis (August 2018) ====
On August 2nd, 2018, likely from an invite in the recently uploaded Episode IX of AHoE, a new member joined called Darth1nsidious7. He quickly became active in the server, being a fan of Brazilian's AHoE, and most notably, even to this day, referred as the "nicest person in the server".
Three days later, Etiennal and Rayan had a fight over who's "apprentice" Darth would be, Rayan attempted to establish a "government-in-exile" and left the server. This led to panic, as Rayan was one of the most active members at the time, with Brazilian even leaving the server and Etiennal making such bold quotations as:"I feel like this is the downfall of this server"Rayan blamed his exit on the server's problems at the time:"Loose, messy, unfollowed rules. Desperation for activity often causes shitty conversations of just 'Who pinged'. Staff is unorganized."He later calmed down and expressed his remorse: "If it improves perhaps. I made too big of a deal out of me leaving anyways, I'm sorry for Braz[ilian]. I was pissed and all. Petty."As a result of the crisis, however, Darth was promoted to moderator, and later to admin.
Rayan returned with his alt, Tarta, on August 8th; he then returned with his main account on August 12th.
=== The Bydarian™ Intervention (January 2024 - July 2024) ===
Layham Lexton (formerly Bydario Prevett, but his real name is neither of those) arrived on the BMC Discord server on January 2nd, 2024, and he started editing the pages on Varna (AHoE) Episode XIV, and the House of Osman. Thanks to Zidium uploading most of the flags from the series on the same day, January and February 2024 saw massive developments of the pages for Varna, mostly written by Lexton. "The Mapping Wiki seems to have stopped updating its pages, but Varna is just too epic to be neglected like that." - Bydario PrevettLexton soon expanded his ambitions to include the creation of wiki pages for Agadir and Static, which began during early March. Then in late March he announced he was leaving until July, but he returned on May 6th to write this small section.
On July 23rd, when Brazilian updated the Varna thumbnails, Lexton uploaded them to the relevant pages.