WombleWorldChat to open on 31 May 2026
On the day the discord closes WombleWorld is here to save the day.
The Dons Trust has closed its Discord server, and we have already said our piece on that in Dons Discord: An Obituary of Sorts. We agree with the decision and do not propose to relitigate it.
Stripped of everything else, it came down to workload. A small volunteer board has only so many hours, and pouring those hours into a channel used by a vanishingly small slice of the membership was never going to add up. Fewer than twenty-five people were regularly active. Set that against more than seven thousand members. Even if the figure had been a hundred, you are still comfortably under two percent. That is not a sensible use of anyone’s evening, and the DTB was right to call it.
But a void does remain. The people who used Discord valued it, and they now have nowhere obvious to go. The alternatives do not serve them well either. Some never warmed to Discord as a platform in the first place, so AFC Dons Discord option won’t work. Others have no appetite for the unmoderated free-for-all of X, and no desire to wrestle with the dated, nineties-vintage guestbook format used elsewhere. There is, in plain terms, no good home for the online Don.
So WombleWorld will provide one.
From today, we are launching WombleWorldChat.
The proposition is a simple one: a properly run, properly moderated place to talk with your fellow Wombles, about the football, about the club, about the DTB, and about the world. It is everything the previous channel was not, it is WombleWorld and it is open now.
You will find it here: www.wombleworld.co.uk/chat and we look forward to you joining us.
WombleWorldChat House Rules
A well-run board needs clear rules, and ours are set out below. By posting on WombleWorldChat you accept all of them.
All moderation decisions are final. There is no appeals process. Any request for an appeals process will be logged as your first rule violation.
Anything Wesley takes offence to may be removed, edited, or favourited, entirely at our discretion and without explanation. What constitutes offence is held privately by the moderator and is subject to change without notice.
Wesley Wombleton would like to explicitly discourage anonymity. Members should post under their full real name.
You may talk about football. You may talk about anything you like. Whether what you have said remains visible is a separate question, decided later, by us.
You must refer to Jake Reeves as Reeves ©. At all times. This applies even where Reeves © is not the subject of your post, and where his name does not naturally arise.
The moderator reserves the right to edit any post so that it says something you did not say, where the edited version is funnier, more agreeable, or simply preferred.
Posts may be removed if they are in any way mean about the moderator, or the moderator’s Mum.
Membership may be suspended or revoked at any time, for reasons including but not limited to: tone, timing, length, brevity, agreement, disagreement, enthusiasm, insufficient enthusiasm, and general vibe.
Screenshots of WombleWorldChat are forbidden. So is quoting it. Remembering it is discouraged.
The rules may be amended at any time, including retroactively, and including specifically in response to something you have already done.
Membership of the active board is capped at twenty-five (WWC25). The figure is deliberate, chosen partly for the volunteer time we can realistically commit and partly in tribute to the precise number of souls who used the platform we replace. Beyond twenty-five, you are very welcome to join a waiting list. Membership to the WWC25 is automatically included in your WombleWorld+ membership, with no ability to opt-out.
Closing Thoughts
We are aware that, taken together, the above might give the impression of somewhere rather difficult to use. We would correct that impression in the strongest possible terms. WombleWorldChat is open to every supporter of this football club, the lifers and the latecomers, the twenty-five and the patient twenty-sixth.
We believe it is a more sustainable, accessible and more inclusive way for the community to stay connected, and used correctly it is on course to become the single most important channel of AFC Wimbledon supporter communication anywhere.
Yes, more important than a pint of San Miguel in the Phoenix.
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