A proposal for six pack community changes.

Thank you for posting and and Thanks for attending one of our team practices - it went pretty good considering managing 4+ teams + subs.  There are some valid points made here and I want to make sure that I echo the comments that the public 6pl discord is the central connection for players in the community.  There are very good points about the difference between forums, discord and fb for their utility/purpose.  But also I'm very new to all of this, the community, the process the format - everything including only just over 6 months in the game itself.

Specifically:
-Discord is good at things that a forum is not, such as real-time voice chat, but things get lost in the discord chat so process things like pinning links to forum posts, tourney bracket(stateful information, for example the rules) are things I do in my own discord.  But I also post calendar events (such as fight night, registration, practices) and have a bot that posts reminders about the events in channels for users.  These automations are not necessarily available in the forums or FB, but could be available in FB or forums with plugins n such.
-Discord and Forums accounts do not translate to in-game functions, FB does and thus far most squad leaders or organizers simply require FB connect since it translates in game. Maybe some day Pix will actually read my suggestions of which an in-game non-fb friends list is only one.
-Facebook, however, is a non-starter for some that could otherwise participate fully simply by having one member of the group on their FB list or in clan, so really FB as requirement is more specifically for pick-up games and practices with mixed groups.  Discord is otherwise, sufficient, where the forums could be but are not the best tool available.  How we use the tools available is therefore key to this discussion.

No harm can come from suggesting making a Facebook 6pl community group, members can use it or not, and its another channel/tool but I do not advocate for making it a requirement of sorts.  I for one, while I have been forced out of necessity to use facebook connect, I have little to no interested in using FB otherwise and while I advise its use for serious players looking for pickup groups - I simply don't advocate it being required per se. The important point addressed above is that being prepared in advance, gives the opportunity for more fun.  Yes we had about a 3hr practice, which is pretty normal for us, and some of that time was spent getting new people on-boarded and figuring out who can invite who and what have you.  But for teams we've had before, that are established in the discord it is somewhat less of an issue.  I think people often forget that you can invite the other team lead simply with ID, and if they already have their whole team on their lists, its just done.  Time was spent telling everyone they all had to post FB profile links and such and time was spent and then ultimately only a couple were actually needed.  Use time wisely and prepare, use the tools for their best purpose.

To that end, the suggestions made above about working with the existing public 6pl discord are well thought out and describe some of the things I do on my server to great effect in organizing multiple teams.  I have gone through these iterations over the past few months since custom games became a thing and we've hosted as many as 8 teams for live events and the result is my current discord configuration.  As I'm sure many other's discords do I have an Officers channel and permissions, and I've recently started a Squad leader and permissions.  This allowed me to give team leaders from outside my private discord the opportunity to post in our public "looking for group" channel but also post to my event bot.  This allows users to see the event in a read-only channel and RSVP.  Ppl can see what is going on and plan accordingly.  In this way, I would simply suggest there is no need for another Captains server since the old one was taken down.  I would advocate for roles and a sub-cat.  It would simplify moderators lives to moderate one discord instead of two.  Merely a suggestion.  But ya, I echo the comment above about being able to either exclude via permissions or mute the things that don't apply to me.

Lastly, I would like to point out how great of a job the existing community organizers are doing and how happy myself and my own small community are being a part of this new-to-us greater community.  And to that end I will continue posting the community events to my local copy and continue pointing new users and existing users to the public 6pl server as the main point of reference and continue getting new ppl involved and setup with the various requirements of the format.  I certainly agree that one of the primary goals of 6pl be keeping the community open to all, the barrier to entry low, and as simple as possible.  And I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner, I also don't really frequent the forums, I really do hide in my hobbit hole (discord) but I do hope teams seek us out for games, we are always down to rumble.