As Someone who has come from and ran Discord RP Servers before, they were highly functional back in the day and still exist in communities as easily available chats between characters. One of the biggest I can think of that is still alive and functioning off of discord is Xara Cosmia, which has a blog on tumblr where you can see character applications that are accepted as well as reserves.
I do think that forcing whole forums to move to discord roleplay is a large adjustment. Discord RP Is difficult to transition too especially when you're used to the way of a forum. But now Discord also has those forum features where you can create topics for people to discuss in, just like a forum. I'm not saying discord is a good new medium, I'm just saying it's really easy to set up and maintain.
But I do agree that it is a difficult adjustment especially when people use their discord accounts as profiles for themselves and not the characters they play, and even then some discord rps force you to have several discords to switch between and that's literally exhausting when there's something going on in the chat and you just want to reply with more than one character.
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