tbh idk why dead chats werent just set up in the circus server but ig it's easy to create/delete new servers? there is not really a mafia "community" specifically for circus, hence the discord inactivity. or maybe there is but it's in a secret server with all the banned people i dunno
4:11 PM]Clouds: Merging it with smogoff [or even cong but to a lesser extent] feels like it doesn't make much sense considering how different the forum purposes are, some kinda revival would be be more realistic imo
this quote was like two years ago. the problem with a mafia forum is that you can play mafia more frequently and of a higher quality elsewhere which kind of defeats the purpose of smogon mafia. smorgon kind of is circus then but it's also a strictly discord based community with no need of a forum
it would be interesting to merge circus with cong. or maybe smogoff is a better bet. it seemed like that was happening in the discord last year but then didn't.
I am entering the discussion. Re: dead chats it's a good idea surface level but perms get kind of messy then with who's setting things up, who can see where easier to make mistakes, lots of clog etc when you put everything in one server (it's just way easier to handle games in a separate game specific server).
I get what you're saying about mafia forums, as someone whos played on many sites, but I think you're downplaying the benefits of a site like smogon. A lot of veterans refuse to play on sites like mu, because it's 1) insanely tryhard 2) you're playing with different people each game 3) you're a small fish in a big pond rather than big fish small pond. On a site like smogon, you get to play with people repeatedly and hopefully be friends or at least comfortable with each other, obviously this doesn't always work out, but a lot of people much prefer playing on their homesite to going off into the dark on a super big site where you'll never have the same playerlist twice, and find it difficult to stick out in the crowd ever socially.
Personally for me, I feel like merging social has been done before and no one actually crossed over for the final year(s). The communities are very separate and I feel like such a server, I'd be surprised if any of the mafia community ended up even using it.
One of my main goals for a server is the create a space where newer mafia players can enmesh themselves into the community easier between games, on a more casual level. I think when you start to scale things up, everything becomes less intimate and people are also less likely to get involved at all, like how none of us really use the main smogon discord.