Yeah haha😁
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:33 PM Matthew G Hunter <matthewghunter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Excellent, Abraham! So, YOU can be the guy to answer questions people have
getting started, haha!!!
:-)
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:26 PM Abraham Finlay <abrahamfinlay@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
That’s funny! I’ve been using discord for years so this works great!😀
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM Matthew G Hunter <
matthewghunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HI Folks,
Many in the Oregon birding community are moving to use the Discord app
for sharing bird sightings and communicating about birds in Oregon at the
state, regional, and county level, and for related topics of interest. The
Discord app can be used on your phone or computer (Discord.com).
Here in Douglas County we have gone from using Yahoo email group list
to Freelists email group list, and a few years ago kind of added on the
Umpqua Basin Naturalists facebook group (with the purpose of including more
taxa than birds). A little over a year ago I followed the statewide trend
at that time and created a WhatsApp group for Douglas County birds.
Activity on any of these outlets comes and goes with our relatively
small population, but I'm trying to stay modern, so-to-speak, haha. So, I
am already using the Discord app, and enjoying it. Essentially, once you
join, you can access the entire suite of "channels" for all areas and bird
topics for the state, pick the ones you want to see, pick the ones you want
to be notified about, and go from there. The following is an invite link to
join the statewide Discord "server" called *Oregon Birding*. If you
don't have Discord on your phone or computer, you will want to download and
install that first (Discord.com). Once you
Join the Oregon Birding discord group by clicking here:
https://discord.gg/y9hyNjqMpN
Once you join, I would recommend immediately finding the discord-how-to
channel. In there are videos on some basics of discord.
Then, you will want to customize the channels you see and get
notifications for. One of the leaders of this effort, Kyle Landstra, will
be giving an intro and question/answer session this Thursday (April 18),
6-7:30 pm. You can join this online meeting by clicking on this link at the
beginning of the meeting time:
https://meet.google.com/yxw-zhkn-fzf
I encourage you all to sign up if you are interested. I will be closing
the WhatsApp group by the end of April. I will keep this freelists email
list going for now, but may reassess its usefulness at some point in the
future. See you on the Oregon Birding discord server.
If you have any basic questions, feel free to ask. I'm fairly new at it
myself, but might be able to help beginners. :-) Once you're in the Oregon
Birding discord server, there is a support channel where you can ask
questions as well.
All the Best,
Matt Hunter
owner/admin
Umpqua Birds
Umpquabirds.org
mghwildlife.com
