Is there any advantage to joining vendor discords and telegrams?

[YoYoFat]

TirzHelp certainly doesn’t hate newbies, newbies are the entire reason it exists.

Did TirzHelp get nuked?

 

[chmuse]

Did TirzHelp get nuked?

Weird. Everything I click on says private channel.

 

[YoYoFat]

Weird. Everything I click on says private channel.

You can still see it? It’s completely gone for me.

 

[chmuse]

You can still see it? It’s completely gone for me.

Now it's gone for me too. It was there and I tried clicking the channels, all of them said private. Came back here to see if the links their mod posted in my thread work, they still do. Went back, it's gone.

 

[chmuse]

You can still see it? It’s completely gone for me.

Subreddit says it was nuked, they're aware, and they're working on it and that their discord still works. I should join that, I left when I joined the telegram.

 

[zpped]

Now it's gone for me too. It was there and I tried clicking the channels, all of them said private. Came back here to see if the links their mod posted in my thread work, they still do. Went back, it's gone.

 

[YoYoFat]

Subreddit says it was nuked, they're aware, and they're working on it and that their discord still works. I should join that, I left when I joined the telegram.

The Discord is currently just a few channels full of people in an outright panic.

 

[chmuse]

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Reddit app doesn't let me copy/paste so I'm hand typing the invite links, either I'm really good at making typos or the invite links aren't working either.

 

[GimmeABreak]

The Discord is currently just a few channels full of people in an outright panic.

I hope they had good backups. There was a ton of information on their TG site, testing data, vendor data, help videos. It's a pretty big loss for the new-to-gray community.

 

[GimmeABreak]

Tirz Help discord invite link:

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

discord.gg

 

[chmuse]

Tirz Help discord invite link:

Thanks! I appreciate you 😍

 

[YoYoFat]

I don’t know that we should link to it publicly. I know they did on Reddit, but I think that’s part of the issue.

 

[glpfun]

Surprised it wasn’t nuked earlier, people reporting people to tg for not being politically correct 🤣 one can only lower the bar so much before it becomes dangerous, even with the noble goal of harm reduction

 

[chmuse]

I don’t know that we should link to it publicly. I know they did on Reddit, but I think that’s part of the issue.

Yeah, I'm feeling a little bad about the conspicuous link in the guide 😔

 

[geoguy78]

Tirzhelp was begging to get nuked. Way too many users and way too open of a discussion. The only safe internet spaces to really talk about this stuff are the ones with private hosting. Anything relying on a social media platform is on borrowed time.

 

[glpfun]

Tirzhelp was begging to get nuked. Way too many users and way too open of a discussion. The only safe internet spaces to really talk about this stuff are the ones with private hosting. Anything relying on a social media platform is on borrowed time.

It’s already back up I think lol

 

[chmuse]

Tirzhelp was begging to get nuked. Way too many users and way too open of a discussion. The only safe internet spaces to really talk about this stuff are the ones with private hosting. Anything relying on a social media platform is on borrowed time.

I'm not very internet savvy 🤷‍♀️ I thought TG was safer than an open forum. Oops.

 

[glpfun]

I'm not very internet savvy 🤷‍♀️ I thought TG was safer than an open forum. Oops.

It is.

Imho pepchat is the only platform where nothing gets nuked

 

[chmuse]

Imho pepchat is the only platform where nothing gets nuked

There's so many things now I don't even know what's what. I just know I've signed up for as many things as I can. Finally joined one I've been putting off for a while and I can't make the tutorial work so I'm stuck 🥲

 

[geoguy78]

I'm not very internet savvy 🤷‍♀️ I thought TG was safer than an open forum. Oops.

Telegram used to be safer, until it's owner was arrested and indicted and agreed to start sharing user information with the authorities, and to be cooperative.

 

[GimmeABreak]

I don’t know that we should link to it publicly. I know they did on Reddit, but I think that’s part of the issue.

You're right, that was a bonehead move. It's all my fault 🙁 .

I think the normal process they use for new users is to funnel people to their discord site and then give them the TG link from there.

 

[chmuse]

Telegram used to be safer, until it's owner was arrested and indicted and agreed to start sharing user information with the authorities, and to be cooperative.

Makes sense. 🤷‍♀️ I'm probably on a watchlist already anyway, for a myriad of reasons. What's one more?

 

[Deeubee]

I don't know why anyone would say forums like these are better than Vendor discords or telegram 😀😀

 

[chmuse]

I don't know why anyone would say forums like these are better than Vendor discords or telegram 😀😀

It's a volume problem..... There's just sooooo many messages happening all at once that it's hard to follow a conversation or reply before there's another ten messages.

I'm too young to be this old.

 

[Deeubee]

It's a volume problem..... There's just sooooo many messages happening all at once that it's hard to follow a conversation or reply before there's another ten messages.

I'm too young to be this old.

I just mute everything, mark everything as read, and search the info I want. Vendor servers are quite helpful, especially of the vendor is active there

 

[exploitedworkerbee]

I don't know why anyone would say forums like these are better than Vendor discords or telegram 😀😀

Love it or hate it, this forum is a hell of a lot less likely to be nuked than any of those others. Self-hosted in a country beyond the reach of pharma’s political influence.

 

[YoYoFat]

Yeah, I'm feeling a little bad about the conspicuous link in the guide 😔

The Mods have asked that it not be linked. And many newbies are entering the brand new one without a clue. I thought there was a reciprocal agreement to not link between the two.

I’m just trying to honor that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

 

[chmuse]

The Mods have asked that it not be linked. And many newbies are entering the brand new one without a clue. I thought there was a reciprocal agreement to not link between the two.

I’m just trying to honor that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I checked the rules originally, it didn't say anything about not linking to it. From now on I'll just funnel people here. I won't be posting the new link. One of their mods even commented in this thread with some guides- if they'd asked me to remove the links, I absolutely would have asked @exploitedworkerbee to do me a solid. (Btw, Brute Enforcer Emeritus, we should remove the dead links.)

Edit: I'm in the wrong thread. I just woke up. Thought I was in the guide thread. Either way I'm not posting links anymore.

 

[esgorham]

Active communities will (obviously) have more information. Reddit telegram is the most active out of all communities. I'm talking about 10k messages a day type of activity. That's where I usually find answers regarding research protocols.

So reddit telegram, pep's bazaar discord as a frontend for peppy's deal/gb notifications, and maybe Swiss too if you want to know which vendor is doing dumb shit you should be covered 99% of stuff. I do follow vendor channels but only digest their information via the notification feed when they @everyone for announcements.

now I’m off to find reddit telegram!!

 

[Sunflower]

There's so many things now I don't even know what's what. I just know I've signed up for as many things as I can. Finally joined one I've been putting off for a while and I can't make the tutorial work so I'm stuck 🥲

MesoRX? That place is like searching through a haystack for the proverbial “needle” of specific topic/ keyword. I mostly can’t even translate when they’re being serious vs. sarcastic with the bro humor 😭 And yet I want to understand and belong 🙋‍♀️