ISFL Server Revamp!

TeyonSchavari · 06-14-2022, 12:11 PM

Happy Offseason All!

Now that S35 is in the books, it is the perfect time to introduce our community to the new and improved official ISFL server! We have taken your feedback to heart and are putting in the effort to satisfy our beloved league members. I am confident that the Community Moderation team's updates and additions to our league general server will provide users a more personalized and positive experience, as well as presenting more options to build comradery among members of our community!

If you aren't in the server already, join us! https://discord.gg/q37Hx6SRs2

UPDATES

WFC - If you missed the announcement from our WFC Head (TheCC), all World Football Championship discussion and locker rooms are now in the ISFL general server. Join up if you'd like to be a part of your WFC locker room!

Gaming Lobbies - Introducing gaming lobbies! You will be able to opt-in to the Gaming section in the ISFL server if you wish to game with your fellow ISFL league members! Features include:

Two separate voice channel lobbies to allow for multiple separate gaming sessions. More can be added later on.
Optional lobby-up role: opt-in to the lobby up role to allow other ISFL users to ping opted-in members and ask if they'd like to play any games! Perfect for organizing game nights with those interested in gaming with others
Lobby-up channel: use this channel strictly for organizing gaming sessions with other users
Gaming channel: moved from "Other" categories. General gaming discussion
Rules: Don't spam ping the lobby up role. Be respectful of your fellow gamer. If anything detrimental occurs in voice lobbies, report directly to the CM team

Podcasting - Ever wanted to have a shared space to be able to more easily interview other users in the league? Or just want to record a podcast with someone you don't share another server with? Now you can! Here is how:

Select the "Podcasting" role in role-selection to view the podcasting channels
Join the Podcasting voice channel with all members of the podcast
Type '/join Podcasting' in #podcast-chat to invite the podcast bot "Craig" into the VC to start recording
when finished, type '/leave' in #podcast-chat to stop the recording
The full podcast recording will be available to you via DM from Craig

There have been concerns about people randomly joining the podcasting channel and ruining a podcast. To combat this, we ask that you only select the podcasting role when you are podcasting, and de-select it when you are done. Report anything directly to the CM team. If anyone deliberately ruins a podcast, they will receive a week long ban from the server with possibility of further punishment, escalating on repeat offenses.

Role-based Channel Selection - You are now able to choose which channels you see in the general server! This allows some users to remove clutter, while still allowing others to have fun in the channels they care about! All ISFL related categories will be available by default, while the following will be available by selecting them in #role-selection

Gaming - allows access to gaming channels as outlined above
Podcasting - allows access to podcasting as outlined above. Only select when you are actively podcasting.
Sports - allows access to all sports related channels, such as #football-talk-and-rant
Off-topic - allows access to all miscellaneous channels, such as #pets, #anime, and #memes. Previously categorized as "Other"
Bot Fun - allows access to all bot related channels, such as #counting, #poke-two, and #bot-channel. Also allows us to add more bots in the future without cluttering the server for everyone else

Channel Organization - Certain channels have been moved into different categories, renamed, or removed altogether.

Ideas-and-feedback has been changed to suggestion-box and moved into the league chat category (feedback from community survey supported adding a suggestion box. this makes it more clear)
#Forum-support has been removed as it is redundant with help-channel. Use #help-channel from now on for support.
Forum/Discord Support category has been removed as there are no longer channels in it
Category "Other" has been changed to "Off-Topic". Cosmetic change to better describe the category for role selection as outlined previously
Other-sim-leagues has been moved into the League Info category to better allow other leagues to advertise. Spamming of other league ads is not allowed.
#memes has been added as an off-topic channel to allow members to contribute memes to the server
Fun category has been added to house our bot activities

What's Next?

House Cup

We are excited to announce the upcoming addition of the ISFL House Cup! More details will be announced when we go live with it, but the general gist of it is:

Each ISFL team represents their own "House" and can earn points towards their team which will be tallied up at the end of each season
Points can be earned by ranking up in the general server and participation in future server events, for example. Exact details TBD
The winning ISFL team will receive a reward at the end of the season for members of the team. Exact reward details also TBD

Obviously we have some work to do on it yet, but we are super excited to provide a fun thing for our community to take part of! Shoutout to @XaveValor for putting in the bulk of the work on this.

Events

We are currently looking into running events that the entire community can take part of. We believe that the addition of a dedicated gaming category, potential new bots, and the upcoming House Cup provides us with more options for activities we can do along with a purpose for these activities as they can directly tie into the House Cup scoring system. If you have any ideas yourself, feel free to contact the CM team to run it by us. We're always looking for fun stuff to do! Stay tuned!

Feedback

All of this came as a direct result from your feedback in our community survey last month! Let us know what you think of these changes, any additional changes we could make, some things you'd like us to revert back, ideas for other additions, or any other comments you may have regarding the general server!

Thank you all for your continued investment in the ISFL community. I hope you all enjoy the improved general server and can build connections with even more of the wonderful users in our league! Have a fantastic day everyone.