Ubiq has successfully moved its primary realtime communications platform from Slack to Discord. If you haven’t already moved over, then do so immediately. Feel free to log out of your Ubiq Slack account. At some point we will likely close Slack down and we have not accepted new signups for some time now.

Why not Slack?

I covered this in my previous post but if you’re in several crypto Slack communities constant phishing and spamming is something you’re probably used to an unmaintained Slack. On a long enough timeline every crypto Slack will turn to trash.

Evidence of an unmaintained Slack (Ubiq Slack was never this bad)

Some Slacks have tried to implement alerting but it’s a losing battle without proper moderation tools.

The pain and suffering and time wasted

Not to mention the limitations and brick walls you eventually hit as a big community.

No upload for you!

Why not something else?

We’ve trialled and tested out several other solutions but many of them fail in terms of usability, applicability or just aren’t very good at all.

Why not an open source solution?

A few ICO’s have banded together and are moving to Rocketchat. While this is all fine and dandy and kumbaya, it handily forgets one key reason why groups are using Slack in the first place.

Using Slack means you don’t need to worry about running servers, administration of a database backed application stack, DDoS attacks, email set up, people uploading large files and a multitude of other things.

Before you commit to a communications platform just because it’s open source, I’d recommend you trial it for a few weeks.. Maybe it totally sucks and isn’t very mature.

What could Discord do better?

Having used it for a while, some features that would be nice to have include:

The ability to quote and reply to a message.

The ability to create quick group chats with multiple people.

But isn’t Discord for gaming?

We actually see this as a pro as the crypto and gaming communities have some similar traits such as trolling and the need for anonimity. With Discord you are largely known by your user name and profile pic and that’s it. You actually need to go out of band for further verification of an account.

The Discord client will always be nice and lightweight since it is built to be used while gaming in the foreground.

What we love about Discord

There’s a lot to love about Discord and here’s a quick list.

Awesome moderation and role features that we’ve fully embraced.

The freedom of unlimited uploads and text history.

The ability to innovate with unlimited bots, integrations and webhooks.

Group voice chats (we’ve held a few). Eventually Group video chat.

Tars has been programmed to give us Optional channels

In conclusion

We believe more crypto communities will move over to Discord and we have found that everything has been a net positive.

While we did have 5,000+ in our Ubiq Slack we have quietly signed up over 1,300 to Ubiq Discord in the past few weeks.

Over 1,300 in Ubiq Discord

Feel free to join Ubiq Discord to see how we have set things up with channels and our 2-tiered system which separates Guests from Verified users. This system has greatly improved the overall discourse and quality of the community.