User blog:FreeSpirit98/Discord vs the Wikia chat

So yeah, this is a blog detailing the difference between Discord and the Wikia chat.

Why the Discord chatroom is more versatile than the Wikia chat

 * More flexibility on the topics of discussion. The biggest difference between the Discord chatroom and the Wikia chatroom is that the Discord chatroom provides more channels where users can discuss about a subject in depth where in the Wikia chat, if few people are chatting about one discussion but a user want to discuss about a different, they would have to wait until when a discussion dies down to not be marked an "offtopic offense". A channel about discussing about games? We have one. A channel discussing about sharing artworks? There's another channel for it as well. Especially, there's a channel for spoilers about the new episodes which you can easily avoid in Discord than from the Wiki chat. Also, Discord is a live chat, meaning that you can see whoever is typing a message (which the Wikia chat doesn't have but you need a script).
 * Easier way to edit or mark your messages. The biggest disadvantage that the Wikia chat has is that there's no ability for users to edit their own message. If there's a message you want to see but there's an error on and want to edit it? Discord has that ability, makes things easier. Do you want to bold, italicise, underline or strikethough your text? Discord has that ability. Wikia chat kinda has text markup but you would need to import CSS and javascript into the wiki to have the wikia chat provide extra functionality, which only administrators can do.
 * Speaking about CSS and Javascripts, trying to import scripts for the chatroom is bit of more work to have the chatroom more pizazz. A couple of scripts that can be implemented for the Wikia chatroom, Discord actually provides it as default settings or customisable settings depending on roles they set. Pinging everyone, Discord and chat provides it, quick moderator tools, Discord and chat provides it. But it's a bit for more feasible and intuitive in Discord for these functions compared to the Wikia chat.
 * The chat moderators has more flexibility on what they can do before. Looking at the what chat moderators do in the Wikia chat, they only have abilities to kick and/or ban users from the chat and just enforcing rules on the users. Discord provides more tools than just what the wiki chat moderators had, with help from third party bots in the server, they can warn and mute users on rule breaking and they can manage emojis (unfortunately, the emoji management for the Wikia chat is only handled by admins because of MediaWiki accessibility) and pin messages, and just to name a few. So pretty much, the chat moderators feel more reliable and more useful with these extra functions available. Also, the selecting and appointing of moderators are done in the Discord chatroom anyways.
 * Because the wiki staff aren't that tech/code savvies, it's easier to add in resources available from Discord. Maintaining a chat bot for the Wikia chat is a bit of a hassle, because you need a chat bot to operate 24/7 on the Wikia chat to log everything from user messages and user join and leaves and because we don't have a chat bot anymore since 2017. On Discord, we have plenty of bots provided to assist in moderation and fun commands. There are game bots users enjoyed on Discord and the staff like the moderation bot to log everything from them without trying to do more work, plus the bots have their own servers where the staff can contact the owner of the bot if they have issues.
 * Doorspamming is not really an issue for the Discord. Doorspamming on the wikia chat means that you enter and leave the chat for some odd reason repetitively. Reasons could be because of Internet issues, usually admins and chat mods would have to ban a user for an hour or 2 to get the doorspamming issue fixed. While on Discord, doorspamming is not really an issue because you can choose how available you are. Meaning setting your mode to online or offline or idle or do not disturb.
 * Discord is constantly being updated. Meaning it will continue to inform the user of the platform's progress with introducing new features the wiki chat would wish to have along with constant notices of bug fixes. According to the WikiExtensions special page, Wikia Chat has for a decade labelled in the "Experimental section". In a way, Wikia Chat is the last thing in the priorities list that Wikia focus. I think this is what made a couple of users in the wiki and the staff to turn to Discord for a reliable and modernised chatroom.
 * More features not listed in here than the Wikia chat. Users can attach files, embed links, and other text format in Discord than the Wiki chat. Users can even place an emoji react to another user's message. Users can ping a user to get notified about something (if done in a non-annoying way). Did I forget that you can privately message a specific user in Discord? (Wikia chat does it, but I feel like I should have mention it).

But what does Wikia Chat had better than the Discord chat?

 * Wikia chat doesn't require you to create a whole new account for chatting. Discord is an external service that FANDOM is not affiliated with, meaning that you actually need to create a Discord account if you want to use Discord. It's like other social media platforms such as FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and it's not that hard to make an account for Discord as their website has help pages to get started, so Discord has resources of their functionality.


 * Wikia chat is customisable where Discord can't be personally customised due to TOS (Discord only offers Light and Dark mode). But as I previously stated in the earlier bullet points, the staff on this wiki are not tech/code savvies and admins are only in charge of customising a theme for the Wikia chat in the MediaWiki page.

This is pretty much a couple of things I can find the pros between the two different chatrooms. It appears that Discord has more pros than the Wikia chat and why it was decided to turn off the Wikia chat. There's more I can pluck out that Discord has than the Wikia chat, but this is showing how many positives Discord has.