User blog comment:InPeaceAndWar/Some News/@comment-31287186-20190506064755/@comment-31363789-20190506162324

As someone who has been here since 2013 and been an active user the entire time, Discord has not made the problems worse. It has only made the problems more visible. Like, Queen of Anarchy said, other wikis use Discord with no issue, and per HaletheKing, these issues existed well before Discord.

I understand how it can seem to a newer user that Discord made the problems worse, but it really hasn't. We still have all the same problems we used to, and getting rid of Discord won't make any of those go away.

I don't disagree at all with your main point - it's one that's been made many times before and I'm sure people will make it again, but removing Discord isn't going to help anything. Removing Discord wouldn't even be a band-aid for the issue because all of us who have Discord are likely still going to use it to communicate with groups and eachother, and Wiki chat will likely be the same as it was before - totally empty most of the time. (And I can vouch for the inactivity of Wiki chat because I used to spend literally all day on it during the summer and at least 75% of the time I was alone.)

And notification blogs get easily lost unless they're constantly promoted, which was one of the issues we had before. People would make blogs and they'd often get little traction aimply because there wasn't really a way to promote them unless you caught a lot of people on chat, which is another issue Discord helps with because you can send a link and leave it, or pin it, and people can refer back to it without you needing to be there.