Fairly often, I notice that slugs get overtaken in the main channel by multiple conversations in happening in chat, especially on busier days.

I know not everyone makes a big deal out of slugs and is happy to just quickly post results, but a lot of other hosts put extra effort in to make the slug process feel special, and it gives space for the entrars and vortists to discuss and appreciate each entry. It's a shame to see those moments get steamrolled.

In addition, it's also not fair to expect everyone else to pause their convos, especially when there are multiple battles happening back to back - there's a lot of great and active leadup convos and collaborative stuff going on that have a right to the space as well.

I think it would be nice to be able to pop into a separate channel dedicated to the slug rollout/discussion. (and since battles shouldn't be scheduled at the same time, sluts should never overlap anyways)

Thoughts?

I 2nd this

this comes up every once in a while and it basically goes down to this:

botbs official channel is the irc. the discord is just bridged to it. the botb bot lives on irc. the log on ohbs is logged from this irc.
an additional channel sounds like you're talking about the discord. which brings some things up: we wld need a second irc channel too, a second bridge and another instance of the bot to log that channel as well.

so much about the infrastructure.
apart from that I also think that it's part of the charme that everything is happening at once.
I also think that if you fail to praise an entry enough in chat during sluts. you can just... post a comment later.

note: the botb discord isn't really the official chat so the simplest solution would be for ppl to move to a diff channel in the server if they wanna talk while slugs are happening

Problem is, the BotB IRC bot uses the BotB channel bridge with Discord to log the XHB chat, you can't really just move it to a different channel, not without breaking things like that.

I personally have no issues with concurrent conversations, it just is the norm on BotB.