WHY is it happening:
We maintain a lot of different Discords. By my last count there were around 15 different RR Discords being maintained and moderated by RR teams. Some of these are private (for early access programs and similar things) and some are public. Having this many servers leads to confusion internally at Rec Room and externally with the creator community. There’s also a lot of work involved with moderating the servers, maintaining bots, ensuring we’ve gathered feedback from creators on a given topic across all servers, etc.Having our largest creator focused programs (economy, RRS, Rooms 2.0, classes, workshops, and all other creator programs) in one place will allow us to better serve the creator community. Rec Room devs who are currently spread out across these three servers will now be in one place. Our goal is to increase the number of interactions between creators and devs, increase the amount of feedback gathering and Q&A time we’re spending in Discord, and cut down on the number of communication and feedback issues associated with maintaining multiple creator programs across multiple servers.
Will the RRS channels maintain their RRS full access vs RRS limited access separation?
Yes, the RRS channels will stay how they are currently configured. We’ve migrated the rec.net RRS role assignment system over to the Creator Hub Discord. Once we’re ready to move everyone over and we freeze all RRS server channels we’ll direct everyone in the RRS Discord back to rec.net to click the ‘join Discord’ link again. This will give you the proper RRS role assignment again but this time for the same channels moved into the Creator Hub server.
I’m a mod in Ink Inc or RRS, do I keep my mod role?
Yes! Someone should reach out or have reached out already about migrating mods into the Creator Hub Discord.
Will all of my Ink Inc or RRS roles migrate into the Creator Hub Discord?
Roles that have a meaningful impact on channel access like RRS full access or mods will be moved over. Roles that were given out in the past like ‘Gribbly’s best fwiend - paintball tournament winner 2017’ won’t be moved over.
When will the Creative Club Discord be renamed to the Creator Hub Discord?
Very soon! Probably a few days after this announcement. We also made a new logo :)
Does the Creative Club to Creator Hub name change impact any other Creative Club stuff?
Not yet. We’re focusing just on updating the Discord server for now.
Why are servers merging into Creator Hub Discord and not some other Discord?
We felt it would be too overwhelming to merge all of these programs into the primary RR official Discord and navigation could become a nightmare with that many channels added to all of those that already exist there. We also want a central place to interact with creators, run public and private access creator programs, and gather creator feedback. We felt it was best to keep the RR official Discord as the place for players and some amount of creative discussion, but we wanted to have a server that was the hub of the creator community where the most interested and dedicated RR creators spend their time and can interact with devs working on the creative tools.The Creative Club Discord has the largest number of creator members, has the most complicated roles structure (would have been very difficult to migrate into Ink Inc or RRS), and already had the largest number of operating creator programs. If there are things you felt the Ink Inc or RRS Discords were doing better than the Creative Club Discord please let us know what those were in the feedback channels we set up! We’re very open to making changes to the soon to be called Creator Hub server to make it better for everyone and carry over the parts of the other servers that were working well.We think there is a perception that the Creative Club server is just for classes and workshops and creator announcements and not much else. We’re going to change that with this name change and this merger. All of the economy devs and all of the RRS devs will be making the move into the new Creator Hub server. They will be interacting with creators in their channels and across other channels. This will become the best place to get in touch with RR devs if you’re a creator. We will be posting creator early access and feedback opportunities into the Creator Hub server. There will be a renewed sense of activity and community in this server once everything is merged in and we’ll make any changes we need to make to better organize the channels and get all of our creator programs operating in one place.We expect Ink Inc and RRS might have been doing some things better than other Rec Room Discord servers. Let us know what those things were in the feedback channels so that we’re sure to move those things over or replicate those bits of the server culture! And if you’re a Discord wizard and have bot / plugin recommendations, or if you can point us to non RR Discord servers that you think are especially well organized or well run, please post those in the forum channel for us to take a look at! Over time we're confident we’ll get the Creator Hub Discord into much better shape than any of these three servers were on their own.