CubeCraft Discord Redesign: Community Feedback

[Story]

Hello CubeCrafters, we've got exciting news for our Discord users.

Introduction

For the past week we have been working on an overhaul to the CubeCraft Discord, we passed this through Admins, then the staff team and now we're looking to show it off to you guys before hopefully launching later this week if everything goes well. We believe that the current Discord design layout is not optimal for adding new voice/text channels and we also believe it looks quite boring overall in terms of layout/aesthetic.

Discord Redesign

What changes have we made?

• We've changed the voice channels the most, these are now grouped up into their respective categories of interest and not into a massive "voice" section, this makes it easier to minimize languages that you don't speak and also to see voice calls for things you are interested in.
• We've also added Java/Bedrock sections with their own respective game & voice channels, we found that many Bedrock & Java players ended up in the English voice channels together and confusion was created.
• We've removed the Nitro section and stationed its channels into new areas to hopefully increase activity within those channels.
• Added new text channels:
  • Changelog is where we will post all changes to the network from moderation to bugs to major game updates.
  • Report-a-player which has been stationed above staff-help to reduce players attempting to report in Discord to help them get the information they need.
  • Weekly topics which will be a channel used for creating new discussion within the community about various things.
  • Creations which will be used for sharing various things such as screenshots, memes, artwork and Twitch/YouTube links.
• Media will now be used for off-topic sharing of any sort of media that the community wants to share, however media can be shared in any channel as long as it pertains to the conversation. Links will not be embedded unless in #Media, #Creations, # Announcements, #Staff-Help, or any info-only channels that we have. This is to hopefully minimize the amount of potential spam that the link embedding can cause.
• New languages categories. We are trialing new language sections, depending on the popularity and moderation of these categories depends on whether we'll add more or keep these.
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

Stuff we've already discussed

Through our testing many things were trialed and decisions were made, so we'd like to write those out to prevent numerous similar suggestions being written.

Stuff we won't be doing:

• Separating Sr. Mods & Designers in the member list.
• Moving English-General to the English section below. As the most popular channel it cannot be that far down.
• Moving AFK to Community Corner as AFK can fill up quite a lot and this would push everything underneath it further down.
• Adding emojis to the language text channels, we felt that flags were not inclusive of other countries and using them all across the VCs might mislead players into thinking those were only for that country.

Comparison

Spoiler: Comparison

This is your chance to get your voice heard for this redesign before we launch it, so please write all of your feedback below and feel free to like suggestions that you agree with so we can make those changes confidently.

 

[Darkninja27]

Would like to see this been added. The redesign looks good and easy for new players to use. Great job!

 

[luv!]

I'd say it looks 100% better! The current design looks way too generic and cluttered, so having everything organized creates an elegant and more simplistic layout.

 

[Exarpo]

Looks great after a quick read-trough...

 

[ItzChocolate]

This is so much better!

 

[Gemmmmie]

I love this new design, it is so much more brighter with the emojis by the channel names. As well as, two different Staff Help channels, it will hopefully prevent congestion in messages. The whole of the Discord looks a lot more organised. I love it!

 

[Goefy]

Looks great! Very well organised.

 

[Hqteful]

I love this new design, it's so clean!

 

[ElementThink]

Wow this redesign looks great! Looks better organized and more colorful hope to see this implemented.

 

[LlTE]

Looks good after the new design

 

[CedricFresh]

This redesign looks awesome! However, I think that the report-a-player should maybe have 2 channels (1 bedrock, 1 java) to reduce confusion, or just state it as for bedrock, as there isn't really an in-game system for reports in bedrock, as there is in Java. (rather, no link that works for player reports in bedrock)

As I play Bedrock, and not java, I hang out in #bedrock, and I can say from personal experience, there's always someone trying to report hackers with singular screenshots or just saying that they did.

Maybe #report-a-player-tutorial can be a locked channel with the way to report someone on the forums with the correct information and evidence, or just showing players a more in-depth way to report, as the tutorial is in the forums, and most new cubecraft players don't use the forums.

These are just some suggestions for the reports channel, I hope it can be better, so more cheaters are brought to justice!

 

[Story]

Maybe #report-a-player-tutorial can be a locked channel with the way to report someone on the forums with the correct information and evidence, or just showing players a more in-depth way to report, as the tutorial is in the forums, and most new cubecraft players don't use the forums.

This is exactly what the channel is for already.

 

[Levi_the_pro]

Cool update and all but wheres the Java blockwars update?

 

[Zathelas]

This looks awesome! It takes some time getting used to this, but it also looks very good for people who speaks a different language! I think it is also clearer for "Community Corner" and other things!
I hope this will come soon!

 

[Deleted member 486250]

So the report player channel is not a place where we can report players? (Like ‘name’ is hacking in FFA can someone ban them?) It’s just a tutorial?

 

[Katsia Stray]

I love it! Can we have a Balkan language section though? (Bosnain, Croatian, Polish, alp those similar ones)

 

[Story]

So the report player channel is not a place where we can report players? (Like ‘name’ is hacking in FFA can someone ban them?) It’s just a tutorial?

Yes, we get an absurdly large amount of players who send us evidence in staff-help, so putting this channel next to there they are likely to click it first and it will detail how they should actually be reporting players, it cleans up staff-help for us a lot.

 

[Story]

I love it! Can we have a Balkan language section though? (Bosnain, Croatian, Polish, alp those similar ones)

We're looking to add more language sections in the future but we are starting with the most popular ones first, we need to experiment before adding more.

 

[Katsia Stray]

This is exactly what the channel is for already.

does that mean that we can report via discord again?

 

[_JoSee]

Hello CubeCrafters, we've got exciting news for our Discord users.

Introduction

For the past week we have been working on an overhaul to the CubeCraft Discord, we passed this through Admins, then the staff team and now we're looking to show it off to you guys before hopefully launching later this week if everything goes well. We believe that the current Discord design layout is not optimal for adding new voice/text channels and we also believe it looks quite boring overall in terms of layout/aesthetic.

Discord Redesign

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What changes have we made?

• We've changed the voice channels the most, these are now grouped up into their respective categories of interest and not into a massive "voice" section, this makes it easier to minimize languages that you don't speak and also to see voice calls for things you are interested in.
• We've also added Java/Bedrock sections with their own respective game & voice channels, we found that many Bedrock & Java players ended up in the English voice channels together and confusion was created.
• We've removed the Nitro section and stationed its channels into new areas to hopefully increase activity within those channels.
• Added new text channels:
  • Changelog is where we will post all changes to the network from moderation to bugs to major game updates.
  • Report-a-player which has been stationed above staff-help to reduce players attempting to report in Discord to help them get the information they need.
  • Weekly topics which will be a channel used for creating new discussion within the community about various things.
  • Creations which will be used for sharing various things such as screenshots, memes, artwork and Twitch/YouTube links.
• Media will now be used for off-topic sharing of any sort of media that the community wants to share, however media can be shared in any channel as long as it pertains to the conversation. Links will not be embedded unless in #Media, #Creations, # Announcements, #Staff-Help, or any info-only channels that we have. This is to hopefully minimize the amount of potential spam that the link embedding can cause.
• New languages categories. We are trialing new language sections, depending on the popularity and moderation of these categories depends on whether we'll add more or keep these.
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

Stuff we've already discussed

Through our testing many things were trialed and decisions were made, so we'd like to write those out to prevent numerous similar suggestions being written.

Stuff we won't be doing:

• Separating Sr. Mods & Designers in the member list.
• Moving English-General to the English section below. As the most popular channel it cannot be that far down.
• Moving AFK to Community Corner as AFK can fill up quite a lot and this would push everything underneath it further down.
• Adding emojis to the language text channels, we felt that flags were not inclusive of other countries and using them all across the VCs might mislead players into thinking those were only for that country.

Comparison

Spoiler: Comparison

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This is your chance to get your voice heard for this redesign before we launch it, so please write all of your feedback below and feel free to like suggestions that you agree with so we can make those changes confidently.

A positive change is a positive response! great job guys!