[tech] I set up a UCC Discord and IRC bridge bot

[James Andrewartha]

I've been threatening to do it for a while, so now there is a UCC Discord, 
with a bridge bot to #ucc. For those who haven't used it, Discord is a 
online, multi-device voice and text chat application, with a gamer focus. 
It's a proprietary service and they keep chat history for all time, so if 
committee doesn't approve I'll pull it down.

Technical details: I created a container on medico and installed 
https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc then configured it to connect to 
a newly created Discord server. Currently I am the admin but the 
permissions are quite flexible so we can add people as required.

Why did I do this? Discord has mobile and desktop apps, which means 
members who are not die-hard screen users will be able to see chat history 
from when they're not around. Basically it will hopefully increase 
engagement with our members who are actually studying at uni, rather than 
the old guard ghetto is has become.

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