Create a Discord for your Product
Discord is becoming a great place to let your community interact with each other as well as a place to reach out to customers. I am not sure if it will pan out, but I think it's a good idea to open up different channels to have conversation.
Right now I have a discord centered around the Ghost software itself for my new product, since there was none prior.
Does anyone have experience growing a Discord server? Sometimes I feel like over-moderation can kill a lot of discussion. I wonder how to strike the balance.
Also, would the IndieHackers community be interested in creating a Discord?
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Discord really is a nice platform indeed. I am running and staff quite a few servers and it's not that easy to be fair.
You should set a clear picture as to what your community is and what it isn't - such as what's beyond the line and how far people can go. The most effective way to handle situations, is to mute someone or have a warn/cases system going. There are many bots for that or you might as well write your own.
As for growing, it depends on how you want to get your traffic and who you'd want to target. Discord itself has a rather young audience, which is changing though, now that there are many official open source projects joining.
There are sites like disboard.org or discord-servers.com, which give a good share of traffic for your server.
I am currently at +7k members with my most successful server. Others are small niches, which I don't expect to grow.
To address your last thing, it's not quite easy to tell how that'd turn out. Either it's going to grow the webplatform or eat it - or just stay as is and shift the activity between the two. But the way IH works, it would only be suitable for the real time chat or advertising your postings here, there. Kinda mixed to be honest.
Hey Dozo,
How's it going? Interested in discussion further?