Lately I’ve been involved in a couple of discussions about improvements that could be made to our discord server in order to keep it more organized and easier for newbies and regulars. With those conversations in mind, I have designed a layout that could help us do the amazing job we’ve been doing a little better.
General guidelines
- Ensure channel descriptions are up to date
- Clean pinned posts that are no longer useful and add new ones if needed (probably all channels need at least one pinned post pointing to their respective wiki or similar, except for Social Rooms that are pretty self explanatory)
- Avoid duplicated channels (like the swarms channels on the bees section)
Current Layout
Information
Announcements
All the latest and greatest things!
- Could be used more
- Pinned posts aren’t particularly needed here but might be useful to add basic ones (Wiki, Honeypot, Forum, etc)
- Is that description the best one?
Code of Conduct
No description
- I think it’s fine although could be merged with #Info (if used as described below)
Info
- As how is used now it’s redundant with the #Announcements channel
- It could be used as #Code of conduct, being a static channel (not updated) that maintains a small number of messages pointing to useful resources for newbies and regulars (wiki, forum, telegram, etc)
Roles
Self-assign roles for Swarms and more here
- All good here
Open
General
All the things!
- All good here
Onboarding
To connect your account with Pollen: https://1hive.gitbook.io/1hive/getting-started/pollen#how-do-i-participate
- It’s fine as it is although could be moved to another section(?)
Memes
Meme driven development FTW
- All good here
Honey
Honey is money!
- All good here
Proposals
Discuss proposals here. Note that Discord is not good for long form discussions, so if you have a point you really want to be heard, please replicate it on the forums
- A shorter description might be better, “Discuss proposals here” should be enough.
Bot commands
Use this channel to talk to one of our many resident bots: Discord - 1Hive
- All good here
Polling
No description
- Unclear what is it about, a description would be useful
- Not an active channel, is it worth keeping it?
Support
Help, Help-es, Help-fr and Bug Report channels
Ask for help on anything 1hive related or help your fellow community members
- I think they’re fine, probably worth cleaning pinned posts so we only keep the ones we really need
Feedback
Give constructive criticism or praise on 1hive projects (Honey Pot, The Faucet, Honeyswap etc.)
- Unused channel that’s not worth keeping IMO, feedback is always given in the respective channel of each swarm/topic/product
Bees
Overall Bees section
- We might consider making this section more topic-oriented e.g. a Proposals channel would contain discussion for proposals, celeste, honeypot, etc
Check-in
Status updates from contributors
- Renaming it to Updates(?)
- Move the chanel to Swarms section
- Budget allocated in Support swarm for the one who makes the update of each swarm (~$30/hr? or probably better with a fixed rate that could vary on slow or extremely high weeks(?))
Swarms
Overall Swarms section
- Not much to say here, probably just worth checking descriptions and pinned posts
Social rooms
Overall Social Rooms section
- Some channels could be merged as Café and Lounge, and while they are all pretty much self explanatory, a small description doesn’t hurt
Suggested Layout
Information
- Announcements
- Code of conduct
- Info (if used as described above, if not might be worth deleting)
- Roles
Open
- General
- Honey
- Memes
- Onboarding
- Bot commands
Polling
Support
- Help
- Help-es
- Help-fr
- Bug report
Feedback
Bees
Disclaimer - I surely need some help with this as I don’t really know all topics that are spread across all swarms
- Nominations
- Proposals
- This cointains Proposals and Celeste talk
- Promotion
- This contains Buzz, Alvin, etc
- Social curation
- DeFi
- This contains Flora, Honeyswap, Agave, etc talk
- Art (?)
- This contains Canon, design, etc talk
- Dev
- This cointains Flora, Morphosis(?), dev, etc
Swarms
- All swarms channels
Social Rooms
- Cafe
Lounge- Library
- Arcade
- Elevator
- Kitchen
- Gallery
Props to @Paddington, @project_uwb, @befitsandpiper and all the others that contributed.