I'm wondering if the team have given up on Twitter (or X, if people prefer) since last year. The description over there specifically says "Twitter is for site status updates only", but the last post was in August 2024 and e621.net proper has had cloudflare errors and loading problems a few times recently that were never addressed on @e621dotnet. If it's not going to be used for website alerts anymore, shouldn't the account at least have a post saying "this account is no longer in use" or something?

zerozivan said:
(or X, if people prefer)

Only one person prefers, and he ain't welcome here.

Most outages or site issues are either very brief or isolated enough that it is only affecting certain users.
I also don't think the site has been shut down for extended periods of time recently, unless it was from a DDoS attack (which you wouldn't want to announce to the world anyways).

If you want more active updates on the site's status or to get some assistance for the site problems you are facing, the e621 Discord has specific channels for them.

thegreatwolfgang said:
If you want more active updates on the site's status or to get some assistance for the site problems you are facing, the e621 Discord has specific channels for them.

The problem with that is how easy it is to clutter up Discord accounts with channels that make it harder to access groups and messages that are more frequently used. Imagine having to open up a folder and scrolling down a long list of links before you can find e621 instead of Twitter, BlueSky, TikTok and all sorts of other social media sites. It's easier to bookmark a public website that only the account holder can post to, on a browser tab, than it is to scroll down Discord to hunt down a public chatroom that you otherwise never use and click over to the chat tab that only the mods can post to.

zerozivan said:
The problem with that is how easy it is to clutter up Discord accounts with channels that make it harder to access groups and messages that are more frequently used. Imagine having to open up a folder and scrolling down a long list of links before you can find e621 instead of Twitter, BlueSky, TikTok and all sorts of other social media sites. It's easier to bookmark a public website that only the account holder can post to, on a browser tab, than it is to scroll down Discord to hunt down a public chatroom that you otherwise never use and click over to the chat tab that only the mods can post to.

I don't really see the big diffrence between "click on e6 Twitter bookmark" and "click on e6 Discord server icon", unless you're a member of like 200 Discord servers.

zerozivan said:
The problem with that is how easy it is to clutter up Discord accounts with channels that make it harder to access groups and messages that are more frequently used. Imagine having to open up a folder and scrolling down a long list of links before you can find e621 instead of Twitter, BlueSky, TikTok and all sorts of other social media sites. It's easier to bookmark a public website that only the account holder can post to, on a browser tab, than it is to scroll down Discord to hunt down a public chatroom that you otherwise never use and click over to the chat tab that only the mods can post to.

What? Have you even used Discord at all in the first place?
There is no "long list of links" and the only groups you have access to are the ones you have joined.
Even then, you can group servers into collapsible folders and rearrange the order they appear in to your liking, as well as mute or hide the individual servers/channels that you are not interested in.

dba_afish said:
I don't really see the big diffrence between "click on e6 Twitter bookmark" and "click on e6 Discord server icon"

Twitter is visible to anyone with a browser and the URL (well, certain accounts at least).
Discord requires you to sign up to do or see anything, which requires an email and for new accounts now a phone number.

busahou said:
Twitter is visible to anyone with a browser and the URL (well, certain accounts at least).
Discord requires you to sign up to do or see anything, which requires an email and for new accounts now a phone number.

except when you're not logged in, Twitter only shows you some of the tweets and puts them in a random order, so it's pretty much entirely useless.

dba_afish said:
except when you're not logged in, Twitter only shows you some of the tweets and puts them in a random order, so it's pretty much entirely useless.

It is now, at least. Back when the account was first made it had more of a point.

dba_afish said:
except when you're not logged in, Twitter only shows you some of the tweets and puts them in a random order, so it's pretty much entirely useless.

counter-counterpoint: nitter and other twitter mirrors