0 A.D. Social Media Accounts (We need you!)

[Perzival12]

2 hours ago, Essential Strategy said:

1. There is no official Discord server. It is the most popular video game platform and social network in the world and 0 A.D. has no presence there. Most newbie players tend to look for a Discord server to know more about the game, but there are a lot of scattered and dead servers that make it impossible to build an informed community. I have also read some discussions about a Discord server, but it seems it has been unilaterally discarded by some forum admins, instead of voted by the whole community.

This is true 

2 hours ago, Essential Strategy said:

2. Instagram account lacks SEO, depends a lot on post format and does not have vertical videos, which probably means, it recycles content from YouTube. Instagram, TikTok and YT Shorts/content must be made appart from the common YouTube content, as they aim to a different target public and social network usage.

NGL, I absolutely despise TikTok and YT Shorts, I would rather a smaller more wholesome fan base than the type of people that such things would draw in.

2 hours ago, Essential Strategy said:

3. There is no video editor dedicated to upload videos to the 0 A.D. YouTube channel. The last update did not has any promotional video even though it is one of the most important updates the game has had. There must be someone and maybe several users in charge of community managing to generate an eficient and organic growth in social media networks.

The last update did have a promotional video, not sure why only a few people seem to have seen it: 

 

[Asher]

3 hours ago, Perzival12 said:

The last update did have a promotional video, not sure why only a few people seem to have seen it: 

Maybe we could have a link to the video when you download a new version of 0ad. Just made a PR for this #9266 

Edited 1 hour ago by Asher
add PR number and stuff

[Stan`]

Main issue is that the video is done post release bundles, so the url isn't known. You could point to release video playlist though. It should probably be the no cookie variant as well.

 

3 hours ago, Perzival12 said:

nformed community. I have also read some discussions about a Discord server, but it seems it has been unilaterally discarded by some forum admins, instead of voted by the whole community.

Well the issue (being on most if not all of the 0 A.D. discords) is that most developers won't be there. So if I say this discord is official (one of them kinda is, as it's in the linktr.ee) then you will have 50 people there maybe, but no one from the team to talk to. This might be alright, but my feeling was people wanted to interact with us more than they wanted just a discord