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So Guilded.gg is Actually Really Awesome
4 years ago
I'm sure many of you have heard over the past few days that Discord has been flirting around with the idea of allowing some sort of NFT/ETH/crypto wallet connectivity and have also most likely negatively reacted to said notion, saying they are being greedy and reckless going in on this with all the infamy that crypto has associated with it. I am certainly one of those people and have already determined to not renew my nitro sub next March.
In such situations of feeling betrayed by a place you considered home, you absolutely will search around for alternatives and one name I've heard tossed around was Guilded.gg.
Apparently created in 2017 and recently bought by Roblox, it certainly follows Roblox's tendency to copy things by greeting you with an interface that is eerily an exact replica of Discord's UI and many of it's functions. Under that veneer is actually a bevvy of really cool services you can use in your servers.
For starters, there's a native server browser that lets you find servers to join and while that sounds like a trolling nightmare, it also has a built-in application system that can force new members to answer a series of pretty customizable form questions and then need a mod to approve their application before they can even set foot into the server. Already, a marked improvement in server moderation.
The actual server organization gets a little convoluted tho but still coherent. In the server setup process you're asked to add games your server would be interested. Those game you choose end up creating "groups" within your server, which essentially are separate servers within your servers with each group having it's own set of channels separate from each other. You can make non-game groups and you still get the same discord channel categories to help sort them.
The channels themselves have so many more tools than you can even shake a stick at. You got your basic text chat with extra features like private replies and voice channels with integrated text chat and whispering to other users, but they even have dedicated channels to view people streaming within the server, dedicated announcements channel that give it a blog format, dedicated media sharing channel, shared lists and calendars and a schedule viewer to coordinate all those calendar events (hello actually sticking to server events), you even get forums for when you want old-school post-by-post discussions in your instant messaging client, you get a shared basic document editor bc why no throw in Google Docs, and a partridge in a pear tree. It's insane the amount of things you can do in these servers. You can genuinely just have one server and then have so many groups to do whatever you want and keep everything siloed away from each other and run whole community events and tournaments in there, of which you actually can organize and manage tournament brackets there bc there's tools to run all that too.
Also many of Discord's Nitro and boost features like profile banners and high quality streaming and vc are natively available
So. Many. Things.
The one theme to pick up with Guilded.gg's features is sub-division. Looking at all the layers, you got your servers, those servers have different groups, within the various channels in the group you can have thread chats branching off of your general chat, several forum channels with their own threads, you can make sub-vc rooms within vc rooms. It all seems excessive how many sub-divisions you can make and it's certainly a feature that those huge community-encompassing mega servers would benefit the most from but this still offers a great quality of life for even casual servers.
Funding these endeavors is an interesting approach. Aside from now having the infinite money that Roblox generates, they seem to be doing a hybrid of Discord boosts and Patreon. You can sub to servers ala Patreon subs and server owners can provide content exclusive to each tier. They proudly proclaim they only take 2.5% of your profits but it'll be interesting to see how much of a Patreon alternative they can leverage.
Also with Roblox being such a meme it's only a matter of time before they do NFTs themselves and the cycle continues if you take grave offense to that.
It is not shy about saying it's still in development and it shows from several UX adjustments they can make in terms of tap a comment for a thread, long press it to reply should be flipped, other servers getting hidden by all the groups of your current server in the desktop UI, missing unique server profiles and stickers for Discord parity, Twitter image previews not being viewable and open in a web browser, and the bot ecosystem still being nascent since the API was only released early 2021. Despite all that, it absolutely nailed the fundamentals and all the things Discord has done right on top of pouring a ludicrous amount of other tools to help communities organize and flourish.
Edit: Many corrections on the Roblox association, missing features and there actually is a desktop client option to have other servers aligned on a bottom bar to maintain visibility of your other servers
Oh and here's a referral link to get a small little bonus thing if you want to make an account Ig
https://www.guilded.gg/?r=40kPn5QA
In such situations of feeling betrayed by a place you considered home, you absolutely will search around for alternatives and one name I've heard tossed around was Guilded.gg.
Apparently created in 2017 and recently bought by Roblox, it certainly follows Roblox's tendency to copy things by greeting you with an interface that is eerily an exact replica of Discord's UI and many of it's functions. Under that veneer is actually a bevvy of really cool services you can use in your servers.
For starters, there's a native server browser that lets you find servers to join and while that sounds like a trolling nightmare, it also has a built-in application system that can force new members to answer a series of pretty customizable form questions and then need a mod to approve their application before they can even set foot into the server. Already, a marked improvement in server moderation.
The actual server organization gets a little convoluted tho but still coherent. In the server setup process you're asked to add games your server would be interested. Those game you choose end up creating "groups" within your server, which essentially are separate servers within your servers with each group having it's own set of channels separate from each other. You can make non-game groups and you still get the same discord channel categories to help sort them.
The channels themselves have so many more tools than you can even shake a stick at. You got your basic text chat with extra features like private replies and voice channels with integrated text chat and whispering to other users, but they even have dedicated channels to view people streaming within the server, dedicated announcements channel that give it a blog format, dedicated media sharing channel, shared lists and calendars and a schedule viewer to coordinate all those calendar events (hello actually sticking to server events), you even get forums for when you want old-school post-by-post discussions in your instant messaging client, you get a shared basic document editor bc why no throw in Google Docs, and a partridge in a pear tree. It's insane the amount of things you can do in these servers. You can genuinely just have one server and then have so many groups to do whatever you want and keep everything siloed away from each other and run whole community events and tournaments in there, of which you actually can organize and manage tournament brackets there bc there's tools to run all that too.
Also many of Discord's Nitro and boost features like profile banners and high quality streaming and vc are natively available
So. Many. Things.
The one theme to pick up with Guilded.gg's features is sub-division. Looking at all the layers, you got your servers, those servers have different groups, within the various channels in the group you can have thread chats branching off of your general chat, several forum channels with their own threads, you can make sub-vc rooms within vc rooms. It all seems excessive how many sub-divisions you can make and it's certainly a feature that those huge community-encompassing mega servers would benefit the most from but this still offers a great quality of life for even casual servers.
Funding these endeavors is an interesting approach. Aside from now having the infinite money that Roblox generates, they seem to be doing a hybrid of Discord boosts and Patreon. You can sub to servers ala Patreon subs and server owners can provide content exclusive to each tier. They proudly proclaim they only take 2.5% of your profits but it'll be interesting to see how much of a Patreon alternative they can leverage.
Also with Roblox being such a meme it's only a matter of time before they do NFTs themselves and the cycle continues if you take grave offense to that.
It is not shy about saying it's still in development and it shows from several UX adjustments they can make in terms of tap a comment for a thread, long press it to reply should be flipped, other servers getting hidden by all the groups of your current server in the desktop UI, missing unique server profiles and stickers for Discord parity, Twitter image previews not being viewable and open in a web browser, and the bot ecosystem still being nascent since the API was only released early 2021. Despite all that, it absolutely nailed the fundamentals and all the things Discord has done right on top of pouring a ludicrous amount of other tools to help communities organize and flourish.
Edit: Many corrections on the Roblox association, missing features and there actually is a desktop client option to have other servers aligned on a bottom bar to maintain visibility of your other servers
Oh and here's a referral link to get a small little bonus thing if you want to make an account Ig
https://www.guilded.gg/?r=40kPn5QA
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