this is roughly the post i wish i had when i was diving into discord a while ago and i had no idea what any terms meant relative to what i was used to in tumblr. there are probably better resources out there for this already. idk.
so from what i’ve seen in discord, you’ll usually have:
- a server per partner. discord is mutual follows or bust, more or less
- ‘making a server’ may sound intimidating but the hardest part is deciding who’s going to do it and then coming up w/ a name tbh
- rping without a server and inside discord dms is possible, just might just make ooc chat awkward. it’s basically rping in tumblr ims
- after you make a server (big plus button on the left), you’ll need to send your partner an invite to it
- at least one channel in the server for ooc chat (the default #general works well for this)
- roughly a channel per thread overall
- channel categories to organize things w/ if you want. not required. i’ve seen all sorts of permutations for ooc chats and ic threads across categories. a good starting point may be just “ooc” and “ic” categories. general chat and nsfw/inspo channels in the ooc category, and rp threads in the ic category. you can also do per-ship categories with channels (threads) within them
- historically i think there’s been less focus on visuals as part of discord threads compared to tumblr. it was a bit more laid back because there’s not as much room for formatting in discord, and including images is a bit more awkward. that may change considering any exodus from tumblr to discord will be nontrivially centered around visuals ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- basic formatting: *italics*, **bold**, __underline__, ~~strikethrough~~
- uhh idk, add anything you think is helpful or i may have gotten wrong!!!
tumblr → discord cheat sheet
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