NEXTgroup

**NEXTgroup** (officially named "» NEXTgroup") is a Discord server created by Overgreen. It is the successor to Overgroup, Overgreen's old server. It was originally created on August 14, 2018, then moved to a new server created on June 25, 2020.

## Server information

### Created

August 14, 2018 (original server)June 25, 2020 (new server)

## Before NEXTgroup

### 2016

On February 18, 2016, Overgreen joined Discord after his friends on Skype started using it. Shortly after joining, he made his own server named "Overgreen's Awesome Server". It was meant as place for Overgreen's friends and subscribers to communicate in. Not much is known about this server at this time, other than a couple of screenshots of the server.

### 2017

Sometime in 2017, Overgreen lost access to his Discord account due to resetting his iPod touch, which had the authentication code generator for his account. He was also not logged in on any devices, and didn't keep any backup codes. As a result, Overgreen stopped using Discord at around the same time electronicwiz1 (now Julia's Tech Spot) moved from having a Discord server to a Telegram group.

On November 23, 2017, Overgreen ran a live stream on his YouTube channel. One of the few viewers of his live stream was someone who he was friends with on Discord, who had asked why Overgreen hadn't been active on Discord for about a year. Overgreen then explained what happened to his account, and then created a new account during the stream. The viewer invited him back to Overgreen's Awesome Server afterwards.

As Overgreen was not able to take ownership of the server, Overgreen created a new server called Overgroup.

### 2018

Overgroup continued until at least June 30, 2018.

## Early NEXTgroup

### 2018

On August 14, 2018, NEXTgroup was created by Overgreen. Not much is known about the server from this time because everything before February 2020 has been deleted, except for the server icon.

### 2019

No information about NEXTgroup is known during 2019. However, through an old message by Overgreen, it is likely that the role guide at the time was named something similar to "`#how-to-role-i-guess`", the bot commands channel was named something similar to "`#bottos`", and there was a category named "`The Odd Channels`".

## The "New" NEXTgroup

### 2020

On February 8, 2020, Overgreen announced that the server had gotten a new logo, and that custom emoji had been added to the server. Along with these changes, Overgreen was planning on overhauling the server by deleting old channels and creating new channels. Most of the channels were linked and now deleted. The announcement in its current state lists the channels like this:

* Info (currently Important):
* ⁠*Unknown* ⁠
* old-announcements
* #sysmessages ⁠
* *Unknown* #---hidden---channel--- <- Whenever you see this, it means User role can't see it.
* General (currently General, The Odd Channels) ⁠
* *Unknown* ⁠
* *Unknown* <- Only "Advertiser" role can post here.
* ⁠old-general ⁠
* *Unknown*
* Hidden category:
* (secret)
* Voice:
* Main Voice
* Quiet
* -secret-
* Weekly Chat (Experimental)
* Music
* Novus FM
* -secret-

After this announcement, it was shortly announced that all old channels would be removed at 1:00 AM Central Time. Overgreen also stated that he was trying to make the server more professional by removing emojis from channel names and changing funny names, such as "The Odd Channels" and "how-to-role-i-guess". The old channels were officially removed at 12:54 AM.

The first message in the new general channel was by Overgreen, and said "Welcome to the new NEXTgroup."

## End of old NEXTgroup

### March/April 2020

After Overgreen overhauled NEXTgroup, there was a decline in activity. On February 23, 2020, Overgreen sent in the announcements:

> @here I have noticed many don't message here anymore. Make sure you leave suggestions in ⁠*#Unknown*!
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On March 7, 2020, Overgreen tried to create engagement in the server by proposing a "Discord Sings" channel:

> @here Hey guys, Overgreen here! (obviously...) I was wondering if this server could do one of those Discord sings things and I wanted to know if anyone has any songs or wants to do it
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On March 30, 2020, Overgreen started the Discord Sings channel:

> @here i'm doing a discord sings thing if you know the song join i guess
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The efforts to make the server ultimately didn't seem to work. On April 10, 2020, Overgreen made an announcement addressing this:

> @everyone
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> ooh you just did an everyone ping, bad person
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> Yeah, yeah, I know. Alright, let's get to the point in bold.
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> **This server, as you know, is dead. I NEED suggestions on how I should improve the server. For you guys, please, please, share the server around with people and make the server more active by talking in it and get some more people to join along. When you do this, it improves the server and everyone will like this better. I know we can't get to like Minecraft or Microsoft server levels, but at least it will be something. If you guys have Nitro boosts, maybe you can boost this server too. How cool would it be to have more emojis and an animated server icon? If you enjoy this server and do some things, thank you! I also understand if you don't really care about the server (Ha, I'm kinda looking at you, Julia.) at least share it around a little, spread the word of it. Thank you for hopefully reading and understanding.**
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The server remained inactive still. In another effort, on April 21, 2020, Overgreen created an admin form:

> Hi everyone (that reads this)! I've created a form to make it easier to become mod or admin. {broken URL}
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On April 30, 2020, the last effort was made to make the server more active, by adding a new channel. Overgreen introduced this channel in an announcement:

> @here I have created a new channel, *#Unknown*. This is another general channel. Here are uses for the channel:
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> - #old-general is having a conversation, but don't want to change the subject/interrupt the other conversation.
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> - Want to mass post something other than text (images, videos, wallpapers, etc.) but don't want to cover #old-general
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> - Talking about other channels but chatting is not suited for that channel. You could do this in #old-general I guess, but IDK
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> - Announcements, so now users and other roles wihtout permission to this channel can announce something without using general? I'm just running out of ideas.
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> However, this channel also has a feature. You can swear in the channel, but that channel only.  Swearing in other channels will still result in a demotion or kick. If you're wondering why this is not allowed in general chat, it is for two reasons:
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> 1. I'm not a fan of swearing. I don't swear myself, and it's not fun if my parents walk into me on Discord with swear words on the screen.
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> 2. Some other people also don't like swearing, either for the above reason or other reasons. This will allow people to still happily chat in #old-general without any swearing.
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> Also, please don't think of this as a "swearing only" channel. Don't excessively swear, or otherwise your permission to the channel will be denied.
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### June 2020

By June 2020, Overgreen had given up on increasing activity in NEXTgroup. However, Overgreen thought about making a new server on June 25, 2020:

> @here This might be a late notification for some of you, but NEXTgroup SE will be made soon. This will be the "legacy" server. This server is still going to be completely normal, but NEXTgroup SE is just going to be a bit of a change, and will be maintained more often.
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Shortly after this, NEXTgroup SE was shared:

> NEXTgroup SE is @here! Join at https://discord.gg/GE53gYy !
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To get more people to join, he gave anyone trustworthy that joined before June 26 in their time zone the Moderator role.
The first messages in NEXTgroup SE, excluding the rules, were by Overgreen:

> Welcome everyone I guess
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> I should probably make a server map
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> And invite bots
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At 10:58 PM Central Time on June 25, 2020, Overgreen suggested that he would delete the now-legacy server:

> I might delete this server
> Estimated deletion date: December 31, 2020 - 12/31/2020
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On June 30, 2020, an invite to NEXTgroup SE was sent again in announcements, and legacy NEXTgroup was now being "replaced" by NEXTgroup SE:

> Just want to say again that NEXTgroup SE is starting to replace this server and can be found @here: https://discord.gg/GE53gYy
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> If you are already in the SE server, great! Ignore this message.
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> If you aren't, I recommend you do, as this server is most likely going to be deleted.
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### August 2020

After Overgreen set up NEXTgroup SE as a community server, on August 2, 2020, he felt like he was going to soon delete or archive the server:

> This server will probably be placed in an archived state or deleted because NEXTgroup SE is now set up as a community server.
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On August 7, 2020, ownership of legacy NEXTgroup was transferred to a now deleted user, who transferred it to a friend whose account is now also deleted.