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type: this-week-with
url: 'https://taylordrayson.com/2021/02/12/tww-s2-e39'
title: 'Season 2, Episode 39'
date: '2021-02-12T13:00:00+00:00'
fields:
  episode: S2E39
  season: '2'
  number: '39'
  topic: 'Community Platform - Discord Servers, New Website, pipkennedy.co.uk, Feedback takeaways'
  duration: '27m 50s'
---

# Season 2, Episode 39

Community Platform - Discord Servers, New Website, pipkennedy.co.uk, Feedback takeaways

Very long lockdown hair

Communication Platform Discord - <a href="https://discord.com">https://discord.com</a>

Communities of people with specific interests

Some people didn't want to sign up to Facebook or Slack

Taylor uses it for web development

Channels for different topics

Voice Chat &amp; Screen Chat

Discord Servers are the main topic, with sub-channels

Originally a gaming platform. Integrates with Steam and Spotify

The core system is free to use. There are "boost" extras which cost a monthly or annual fee

New website launched - long time coming

<a href="https://www.pipkennedy.co.uk">https://www.pipkennedy.co.uk</a>

Gordon's adult magician performing stage name

Over 1 year in the planning

Needing to be done for many years

The original was limited by the technology available

Lockdown was the catalyst to making this a priority

We used Oxygen to build this site, and it took a while for Gordon to build as it was a new builder for him

Testing on hundreds of devices is just not possible so tweaks are always needed

After putting it live, added image compressor, pre-loading pages, CDN, sitemaps

Had some comments back after posting the link on Facebook

Entertainer friend said it didn't have enough "Pizazz" although for the target market I was also told it was perfect - very corporate and professional

Please take a look and leave your comments below

Take away is to get feedback and look at it in context.

Make sure you respect the views of the people giving the feedback, and whether they are your target audience

Also - don't be precious on your work, have an open mind and be prepared to change things and ideas if there are good reasons to do so.

May need to split test the site - but we need traffic first which isn't going to happen during lockdown

 

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## See also

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