[tech] I set up a UCC Discord and IRC bridge bot

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, James Andrewartha wrote:

> I've been threatening to do it for a while, so now there is a UCC Discord, 
> with a bridge bot to #ucc. For those who haven't used it, Discord is a 
> online, multi-device voice and text chat application, with a gamer focus. 
> It's a proprietary service and they keep chat history for all time, so if 
> committee doesn't approve I'll pull it down.
> 
> Technical details: I created a container on medico and installed 
> https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc then configured it to connect to 
> a newly created Discord server. Currently I am the admin but the 
> permissions are quite flexible so we can add people as required.
> 
> Why did I do this? Discord has mobile and desktop apps, which means 
> members who are not die-hard screen users will be able to see chat history 
> from when they're not around. Basically it will hopefully increase 
> engagement with our members who are actually studying at uni, rather than 
> the old guard ghetto is has become.

There was some discussion in #ucc today about this. You can join the 
Discord server by going to https://discord.gg/tckg2 (valid for 24 hours) 
and then scroll back up to read it!

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