Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Discord Server

I was contacted a few weeks ago by someone who had just gotten into collecting Japanese baseball cards and wanted to know if there was any sort of on-line community.  When I said that I really didn't know of one, he decided that he'd go off and try to set one up.  What he's done is set up a Discord server called "Japanese Baseball Cards" and if you're interested in joining it, you can use this link.

When I started this blog back in 2007, I had two goals.  The first was to inform folks about what cards were out there and I think I've succeeded at that.  The second was to provide a place for collectors to connect with each other and I don't think I've really done that at all.  I tried doing some swapmeet posts way back when but I don't think anyone every really got anything out of them and I stopped doing them.  So maybe this Discord server can do a better job than I did.

3 comments:

Fuji said...

I know a few bloggers use Discord, but I'm one of those who have no idea what it is. I just know my students use it to communicate while playing video games. Well... at least I think they used it for this a few years ago.

NPB Card Guy said...

To be honest, I really don't know much about Discord either. Seems like it's basically another version of a message board system but I could be wrong.

Shlabotnik Report said...

I've been on another hobby-related Discord channel for a year or two, and just joined this one as my third Discord channel (the other one is a Lord Of The Rings channel where I overestimated my interest in the subject). I think of it as sort of a combination of social media and message board, but I guess that's largely based on my own experience. I've never used the voice channels like gamers do.