Growth Is Discord a good way to grow your forum community?

[InMyOpinion]

I think you should keep your discussions to the forum because if not people are going to be messaging on Discord instead of posting on the forum. You can maybe add a chatbox to your forum but I think having a Discord will distract the users from the forum.

 

[Rey619]

never been a fan of discord.

 

[fdk]

I personally really dislike Discord, and it's so frustrating that I get so many people ask me to contact them there. I do have a Discord account, but I only use it on the Web App and only if there's no other means of communication.

If I was running a forum at the moment, I definitely wouldn't be using or integrating Discord with it. I've seen several forums that I was very active at fall into the trap of trying to "grow" their forum by using Discord as an additional outlet and attempting to recruit through it. Inevitably it's always led to either outright closure of the forum, or a significant reduction in activity. Almost seems to be a death trap for forums to me.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I think Discord takes away from forum activity more than help it. I don't have a Discord server setup for my websites, I think it's okay to keep in contact with staff if you have a non gaming forum but it's just not for me. Thankfully one community that I know of made the switch from Discord to forum since it fits the niche of the community more.