At least consider mirroring to the web - or at this stage inform people you will one day make posts available on the open web. Acquiring that consent afterwards is painful.
It feels like Discord has replaced the good old forum but it's worse in so many ways.
No thank you.
Of course modern forums are better. Disqus is ok, and D's forum software is arguably the best thing to come out of the D project.
In any case Discord is not a replacement for forums; it's a replacement for IRC.
I haven't run into it recently, but I have at least vague memories of it happening in the past.
Mainly it's just so fast and clean.
I always used a search engine to search. Site search is usually worse than Google (is/was)
Spammers and similar bad actors. :(
Discord is really advantageous for us to have real-time conversations with people though.
This knowledge should be mirrored to the web so it's discoverable and archivable. And to do that you need consent - you should notify users now even if you don't implement it now.
Are you thinking of Telegram, which does?
it's similar to meta where some flagged accounts have to add an id
2. Discord will go away one day and so will all the accumulated knowledge
3. People who aren't directly looking for your project won't find it. It's will have no search footprint. You have to actively seek out the Discord to discover that that's activity there.
"Most people" don't already have it. Only a fairly specific handful of demographics.
This just shows how in-a-bubble people can be. I'm trying to think of a single person outside of my hardcore gamer friends that I know who would have Discord - drawing a blank.
As an example. An Elixir library I'm using, Ash, had its support forum on Discord. Just recently they moved it to a proper forum. Here's the immediate result [1]:
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Moving to ElixirForum just benefited me. I googled elixir ash registry to understand what it is and if I still need it (I ended up with it from an example somewhere). The top result was this excellent question and answer
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A forum is always nicer, and is accessible to more people.