Pack, how do we feel about alternatives for Discord. Discord has been progressively worse lately, and the topic of alternatives has been quite lively.
We did some research here and there, but currently, our eyes are on one called Fluxer. It's an open-source, near 1:1 clone of Discord with the potential for self-hosted instances. In less than 2 hours, I was able to copy the SCG discord to it, as well as setup a bridge for Poe to go back and forth as a test.
I am looking for feedback from anyone interested in sharing on what we should consider supporting! Mind you, the plan right now isn't to abandon discord, but to offer a bridge for those looking to leave it so they can remain in contact.
I should go with the approach of trying to cover as many cases as possible, but it'd be far less stress on me and the other admins to wrangle things to 1 or 2 options.
Hello! I have a number of new features and changes to share with you all today.
We've added pronouns!
You can set pronouns in-game using the "!pronouns" command, or on the SCG website under your TF2 settings page.
For more specifics on how to use this command, please consult this page: https://www.scg.wtf/wiki/Pronouns
Presently, this only affects a few of the furry chat commands, some examples include:
[b]!coffee - [PLAYER] drank a sip of some rich coffee, she must feel great now!
!bellyrub <player> - [PLAYER] pinned down [TARGET] and rubbed his belly![/b]
This plugin needs some work, it can probably be handled better, and I'll do that at some point!
Did you know that donator kill effects were broken? I didn't! They've been broken for about a year. A result of some fixes I did for cp_freaky_fair last year. After a quick adjustment of a few plugins, this has been fixed, kill effects are back!
Next, donator join messages? They will display when you actually start playing now instead of while you're connecting, so you can actually see them! Also, now people won't be confused and try to say hi to you before you've ever joined. Additionally, the "player has connected" text has been changed to "play is connecting" to help stop that confusion.
The boring stuff? A handful of plugins have been cleaned up, retooled, or otherwise been for optimization purposes.
Hello, everyone! I wanted to give a quick check in!
So, the last few months it seems like I've been slacking. So many things I need to fix, so many things I need and want to do! It's not unheard of me to be busy, but it's been really different this time around. To summarize, I moved out, moved my boyfriend in, vended at a few cons, did an absurd amount of driving, and then did a bunch of stuff for pride month.
I've gotten into activism IRL, mostly with my local queer scene, and pride month turns out to be a busy time of year for such things! On top of that, just my usual day to day jobs, tasks, etc. I'm not complaining, I'm happy to be where I am needed, but I regret that I haven't been able to give my attention to things here.
With the month over and things slowing down and moving back into routine, I will be around again to continue working on things. I am headed to Anthrocon this weekend, but that should be it for the next few months.
In the meantime, I really appreciate the love and support I've gotten, it's been a bit of a turbulent time for me as well. Additionally, the support to SCG from our Patrons and Donators, I can't thank people enough, it's been pretty important.
Lastly, I just want to say, that we will be keeping the pride icon up for the time being until I unveil my next icon design. This pride month has been especially important to me, it's a really scary time for a lot of us right now. Add in the looming threat of internet censorship, AI problems, and so on; keeping this place around for people to call home is extremely important to me.
I love you all, and appreciate you being apart of this ride with me, we're not going anywhere. <3
TF2Ware has been "fixed" on Rainbow for the time being. The TL;DR, we are now hosting copies of TF2Ware on our download server until we are assured that the Steam Workshop becomes a valid host again. Our fix is a matter of automatically updating and repacking the BSP file with a series of important edits to make it work.
A full report on how it works can be read here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/scg-tf2ware-156112391 (Consider joining? :3). Because this method may eventually include numerous "old copies" of a large map, please look for our updated post regarding our record of old and unused maps coming soon!
As per a request sent to me by Elderrado, I've added numerous pride flags + heart emotes to the SCG discord. They can be accessed via :pride_flag_X: and :pride_heart_X: respectively.
I believe I got all of the core things, but if I missed any, please let me know! Thanks to the feedback regarding the formatting + the addition of the Therian + Otherkin flags (How did I possibly forget about those?)