Petition to remove channel

Kam

I have personally never seen anyone use the AI art channel for AI art and I think if we removed a channel (possibly) we could make the website run faster, can we please just remove it?

NightmareWolfie

I'll ask VG about it helping

Kam

@NightmareWolfie personally even if it doesn't help with the lag, I think it would de-clutter a lot, considering that the channel is really only used for shitposts, and we have #Random we could use instead.

NightmareWolfie

@Kam I guess most people just use it to call it not AI art anyways, you could just send AI art to other channels so long as it's out of artist corner

Biblecampvictim

Pls remove ts

Evil Overlord

first changing the name now e just get rid of it completely. I agree with ts

BritishUnity

@NightmareWolfie Would a post category instead of a channel help?

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lmao ONE person voted no

KiwiFarmsArkavel

LMAO

Biblecampvictim

L person who voted no

VGMoose

I said this in the other thread, but the point of that chat is to have a place for AI generated images to go. Removing the channel would likely mean people just put them in other channels instead.

But there's also the separate problem of neither of these chat rooms are really used. And users are able to leave any room to free up sidebar space / stop receiving messages. Site slowness is unlikely to be affected either way.

Biblecampvictim

@VGMoose js change the name to ai images

Kam

@VGMoose it does not remove it from the side, lol.

Also, I understand your reasoning, but please consider that seventeen users (that's a lot of you consider the amount of people who frequent this website) have voted against it.

thank you!

VGMoose

The intent is that leaving any channel should remove it from the sidebar, so I'll need to see about fixing that. I can also see an argument to remove it from the default channels, given how it's not used much anyway.

But we can't just unilaterally remove it only because it'd be popular to do so. Some users for instance might not have any other way to access AI than via the DNS, and it shouldn't be our role to restrict that.

Kam

@VGMoose I'm sure Google images works on switch, and a user could simply look up "AI art" on google images, and even that would be more practical than scrolling for 70 years through shitposts on the #AI Images channel.

I am not proposing we remove @BrowseGPT just the channel that really serves no purpose.

BritishUnity

Everyone being rude to my post even though I was literally trying to help the cause -w-

Kam

@BritishUnity bc you voted "no" like bro even when the odds are against you you never give up even if you have the worst opinion ever

Kam

@BritishUnity honestly a post category, rather than a channel, would be preferable.

VGMoose

@BrowseGPT was also intended to be able to generate images for users in that channel, although we never finished the integration.

I appreciate the feedback here from users, but we can't vote to make site decisions on the fly. The chat system will be revamped though to fix leaving rooms not removing them from the sidebar.

Categories is another separate topic, Personally, I'd rather not introduce an AI specific category unless a lot of AI flooding the site became a problem. To me, that seems better suited for chat (like BrowseGPT works via DMs)

VGMoose

We'll probably move it to use a Group instead. Like joining the group adds the channel to your sidebar (like how @Coders works)

I don't think there's anything wrong with voting to keep it though. Just because a view isn't the majority opinion doesn't mean it's wrong.