Get Help Fast on Steem with steemit.chat and Discord! #5

Welcome to day five of Basic Training on Steem! Would you join us today in learning about how to use the chat channels on Steemit.chat and Discord because these are extremely helpful for getting real-time help?

If we get started on Steem it’s very likely that we will get really excited, and then we will go maybe find someone’s post, like one of my posts, and you will comment on it and you will be all excited, and then you will notice, “I made all this and Jerry didn’t even reply to it.”

You might start posting on Steem, post a bunch of comments and not get any replies, and then get frustrated and want to know how to do something. Then, we are liable to start asking, “Well, where do I get some immediate help? If something goes wrong where do I get some help right away?”

The best place to do this is in Steemit.chat and in Discord.

Steemit.chat’s interface looks like this. You can see in the lower left here “Steemit.chat powered by Rocket Chat.” Thank you to to @riverhead for keeping steemit.chat online!

Then, we have all these different messages on here. We have different channels. We can do direct messages. This is one of the fastest ways to get immediate help.

When I am fooling around with my witness server and I need help on something, and I don’t know what to do with it, then I just stop straight in the “witness” chat channel, and then I can ask a question.

If I go back a few days, I got stuck with a specific technical error, so I posted the exact error. I very quickly got some help with it and that is happening way faster than if I just was trying to post comments on Steem.

Often it may be hours if not days before anyone checks comments on Steem. Sometimes I don’t even see comments on my posts, but with Steemit.chat we can get someone who’s most available.

Often, for things like getting witness votes, being consistently available in the “witness” chat is a great way to get witness votes.

@drakos, for example, is almost always hanging out in the “witness” chat. He’s consistently there to answer questions and that’s helped him get a lot of witness votes as with many of the other witnesses here.

We see that they are hanging around and available commenting in the chat. This helps all of us to work together more effectively. Steemit.chat is useful to just jump in and have everything in one interface, which is why I mentioned Steemit.chat first.

Steemit.chat is the easiest thing to get started with. It’s the first thing I signed up for because it has these “witness” channels. It’s got the “general” channel where we can just jump in and talk to anyone. It’s got lots of different channels.

You can search for more channels, there are all kinds of specific niche channels that are joinable based on exactly what each of us is looking for.

Then you can do direct messaging also on Steemit.

If I search for a specific user I can then have a message with that user directly. The problem with this is, for me in particular, I often get too many messages lots of times.

At the moment, I’ve got direct messages from 247 people, and then I’ve got 23 favorites and nine channels. It just gets overwhelming.

Steemit.chat is good in the sense that it is pretty easy to connect and get responses, but at the same time it can be pretty laggy and there are lots of people who aren’t that active in Steemit.chat who are active in Discord.

Steemit.chat also does not offer voice chat, it just offers text chat, as we can see here in these chat channels, which is great. If it’s 6 AM and I’m trying to set up my witness and I’ve missed a couple of blocks or something, I need help right away, then Steemit.chat is great for that.

What is great also, is Discord.

Discord is a chat app that allows for voice chats, it has a lot more depth and features than Steemit.chat and it allows for communities to be grouped up and set in depth pretty well.

While on Steemit.chat, there’s just this one “witness” channel, then there’s another “witness blocks” channel for everyone who’s missed a block.

On the Discord channels, it’s much easier to have depth in a community.

On the @ADsactly server over here, there are all these different chat channels. You can have this nice post on “what is ADsactly?” which is also on Steem at https://steemit.com/adsactly/@adsactly/adsactly-on-adsactly-part-1.

You can go over here, and look at each of these channels, which have different functionality. For example, you can just have contests in this one channel and you have a vault on this one channel.

Get Help Fast on Steem with steemit.chat and Discord! #5

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