Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-7424710-20171005045115/@comment-27141362-20171005052235

Not Brandon Service DF wrote: Over the past several months, I've been occasionally visiting the Death Battle Fanon Wiki, previously under a different account. I very much believe that transferring to a Discord-based chat would discourage new, or the extreme casual such as myself, from joining the community, due to its rarity within Wikis, and an inability to access it easily.

While this is a sound idea for keeping the pre-existing community active, it would need an upheaval into more availability, so as to keep the opportunity for growth present. Au contraire. I believe that while having a discord server may seem intimidating and unapproachable for casual or new users, it would keep them within the community until they actively make the decision to leave. Plus, the main reason, I believe that the community hasn't been showing any growth in the past few days was because of chat being just...barren. If they had questions, they couldn't go to chat because there was nobody there. Plus, if my memory serves me right, plenty of users have shown interest in joining the community via chat and just left after mere minutes, whether this was simply lack of interest or just forgetting, I don't know, but I do believe that making a discord server would do more to keep new users in the community, rather than simply have them to join once and leave.