MapperCast Discord

The MapperCast Discord is a discord server specifically made for the MapperCast Podcast.

History
On August 13th 2017, The 41st episode of Mappercast entitled "MapperCast Discord?" Was broadcast and centered around the discussion of a potential Mappercast Discord Server. The consensus of the crew members and community was positive towards the idea, and the Mappercast Discord Server was launched on the same day of the 41st episode's airing.

After the launch, The server was initially quite unsuccessful, and remained dormant for several months.

The primary activity on the server during this era consisted of occasional announcements from members of the Mappercast crew, as well as various members of the server asking VoidViper and CosmicMapping when/if the show would air on any given day. Although, around late July 2018 to early September 2018, an event occurred which would shift the tides of the server's future.

From the founding of Mappercast in early 2016, up until this point The Mappercast Crew's primary method of communication and planning the show was through a private chat room they had ran through Skype. although around this time in Mid-2018, Skype had released an update to their layout which had made the platform a shell of it's former self. In response to this sudden and unexpected negative change, The crew made the decision to migrate to the private chat area of their nearly forgotten Discord.

The Discord server had now become a major installation in the process of producing the show, along with various other projects and communicative needs.

This increase in the Crew's activity in and around the server grew their interest in maintaining the viability of the server as a community hub, rather then a forgotten, muted icon at the bottom of people's Discord Server list.

In an effort to drive community engagement, on August 31st 2018, Mappercast Crew Members Mindria Mapping & CosmicMapping launched the "Poll Of The Day" channel as an addition to the server. This channel would update every day with a new question members of the server could vote on, often sparking lively discussion and debate centered around the topic of the poll in the server's "General" channel.

This effort succeeded, as activity in the server increased dramatically after the introduction of The Poll Of The Day, revitalizing the server.

This marked an era of expansion for the server, as many new additions and features were added shortly after the poll's introduction. These new features included several new channels, Rythm and Yggdrasil bots, as well as a leveled ranking system allowing members to increase their experience rank as they continued to engage in the server's activities.

The server currently sits at 227 members with it's General Chat having over 100,000 sent messages.

~Notable Server Events~

"The Toy Chica Debacle"

After the introduction of the Rythm Bot in October 2018, it's usage quickly turned from genuine musical entertainment, to that of spam and exploitation.

During a particularly fervorous session of spamming, MapperCast Member Alp Mapper attempted to request the the bot play a popular video of CosmicMapping twerking from the 25th episode of Mappercast.

What resulted instead, was a completely absurd, arbitrary, and unexplainable occurrence as the bot proceeded to process this request as a request a play a video depicting characters from the game "Five Nights At Freddy's" performing obscene sexual acts on one another.

The chat immediately burst into confusion and hilarity, as various members began spamming the bot to play this video repeatably, particularly CosmicMapping & CheezWafflz Mapping.

The event ended with the Rythm bot being removed from the server, although it was quickly returned.