I'm sure a lot of us didn't use it much because it was overwhelming and difficult to follow sometimes, but I know that lots of people loved it, and I'm one of them.
Just feeling reflective and thinking about what lessons can be learned from the whole experience, what we can use going forwards for the betterment of our community, and what we think are things we want to build towards.
I'm so utterly proud of this community, many wonderful things happened on the discord and in the weeks after the sub was banned, so many people came together and worked hard for the betterment of their comrades, we've witnessed a glimpse of the power of our solidarity with one another, and I can't wait to see how far we can go.
I love you all, and you know I mean it <3
Discord communities are inherently limited.
Having run a large one for several years there is one key problem with discord that there isn't a resolution for -- it has an activity ceiling per channel and people are sticky to channels so don't move around much.
Any given channel can only take around 10-15 maximum currently participating people before it becomes utterly unuseable due to chat moving too quickly. This means that people simply stop participating when it reaches this ceiling. In addition to this, people don't really like to move channels much.
What this leads to is channels having core-community groups of extremely high activity people and a lot of other people feeling rather alienated around the periphery of the community. In addition to this those that simply participate more end up with more "clout" in these in-groups that form, this can cause all kinds of clique-ey problems for community direction.
You can mitigate this by simply accepting it and building dozens of very separate isolated community groups and still maintain growth, but you can never form a cohesive whole.
That problem does not exist in reddit style boards, which is why they're far superior for large communities and feel more cohesive.
Like the French peasantry described by Marx as a sack of potatoes rather than an organized whole.