Please be wary my response and comments to your statements are opinionated from my own take on how I look at forums & discord with regards to this suggestion topic, in no way is what I'm about to express any official statement from the staff body I otherwise represent.
Originally Posted by Chilledon
Well, I always saw the forum as a more "official" landing page for anything Toribash. As I explained in the OP, I believe newer players entering an environment like this would be conducive to larger player retention over time. I believe Discord is not helpful to beginners as 90% of replays are glanced over or foreshadowed by random conversations. The forum is in a position to either die out entirely or actually become a useful tool and meeting place again. With a coordinated efforted by the active community and staff we could see this happen.
It just hurts to see a game that is so creative be overshadowed by its lack of community and help towards newer players, which is definitely not reflected in the Discord environment.
You make a fair point when you say the landing page being discord does land you in a haphazard environment where you gaze upon a random conversation without the faintest clue where what is. I have felt this too when I returned to this fine game and landed onto the discord server. Again, I am all for the forums having increased activity and being the "primary" site for most toribash-related activities. However, this is negated by the functionality discord offers and the sheer familiarity and inclination the newer generation has towards instant messaging platforms. Its gotten to the point where it may seem counter intuitive to cycle back to the forums as the game design itself caters towards newer players in a manner where there forums are still relevant but not necessary.
Originally Posted by Chilledon
The point about reports and and issues that need to be resolved with staff, I believe discord could be a great tool for that. There could even be a "contact" section or something that would lead you right to the reports channel or something.
But as far as replay threads, clan chats, event threads, etc. I have no problem with them not being in a chat message environment. It is neat to add on to a thread and go about your day instead of having to divulge in a drawnout conversation in discord, or having to scroll back up hours later when i want to see if anyone commented on a replay.
But the only way to achieve this would be to have the official Toribash Discord open for strict matters that require instant responses as you mentioned, such as reports, support etc. But the clans / events (and such) sectors to be strictly available on the forums. I don't see this being the correct direction to take just to satisfy the craving you and I share of having the forums flood with activity again.