I like the SS Discord, it is useful for many things, and not so useful for other things.

The big thing its not useful for is putting forth your ideas for big and significant changes, and allowing a conversation to happen where people can explain their views, and you can easily reply back and explain to them why, AND most importantly keeping an easy to follow and find record of that conversation where others can then see it evolve to understand why the changes ended up where they did or what the motivation behind it is.

Right now now on Discord it is a disaster to try and follow such conversations if you weren't there taking place in them at the moment.

Apparently MF control bots are getting F'd and people with slaves are going to take a huge hit? Trying to find info about this on Discord is a mess, and even harder to ascertain why these changes are occurring or if they are being done in tandem with other changes that balance things out etc. Same with changes to the delquad, resistance, prawn, etc. Hydra gear being removed or nerfed? Who, what, when, where, why, how do I find out about this? Maybe these changes all totally make sense, but unfortunately its impossible to understand why unless you spend hours scouring Discord.

Etc, etc, for every other change where the majority of the conversation happened almost exclusively on Discord where its impossible to follow or determine who replied back to who on a convo that happened in the past. This game already suffers from so much information asymmetry that give players significant material advantages over one another simply from knowing some info that should be easily known to all. This new way of proposing and working through major changes primarily on Discord seems to amplify this problem.

LATE EDIT: To understand what I mean, I thought the fighter rework was a good example of a significant change where the conversation that informed the eventual changed was initiated by the devs on the forums, and because of that allowed a wide universe of SS players to chime in and help provide input on that effort to have it end up in a good place, AND for players to understand why it ended up there.

will the aug buff for slaves go in same time as the mfbot nerf?

The "community meetings" that get hosted to discuss certain topics excludes a lot of player from potentially participating. You go from getting the thoughts and input of a large universe, anyone with an SS account who knows how to use forums to --> only those with Discord AND only those who know of the SS discord (not everyone does) AND only those who can then also be in front of their computer at that exact time ( I can never participate because of this reason). .

5PM at Friday night for me wouldn't be so hard if I didn't have to work to be able to feed my family or even play this game. If I can suggest maybe a vote as to when these meetings are held so everyone has a say or has a chance to participate?

I am down with trying to get dev communications posted in a more organized fashion. The move to Discord was in response to general discontent in the community about communication with the devs, and I think that on the whole it has been a great improvement in that respect. The main downside is as the OP indicated: there is not a good record of these communications after the fact. So the dev team can try to do better about pushing that information to the forum via direct posts or the blog system.

That would be much appreciated and I think the blog posts provide a good existing vehicle for pushing a lot of this info out. As an example Max's post above explaining the reasoning and rationale for controlbot changes is the most comprehensive I or probably many others have seen to date, and it is now in a static location that will be indexed by Google and eventually findable through there, and also now has a permanent link you can simply copy and paste to direct people to who want to learn about this issue, which is the nice thing about these forums...