Before you start to say your peace, let me tell you my decision. It was between No or an extended discussion, and this is why.
When discord first started to put out it's head, I was against the decision to move to discord because we would be diverting site traffic. My philosophy is that if the site had a chatbox, people would be on the site to talk. Being on the site, you would feel more prompted to maybe want to do something, it's encouraging when everything is in one place.
Fast-forward a few years later, my views have changed. We have been so long without a chatbox that we can't narrow down our traffic to the chatbox being there anymore. And that was my only reason to say no, so I no longer have a reason to say no to discord. On top of that, Discord is convenient, can be downloaded on cellphones, real-time communications and calls to maybe a player you became friends with.
Discord is free, I'm assuming from the small arguments that the chatbox will cost some paper. It's not a worthwhile investment for the sake of the site anymore. We lost that battle as soon as Neo created the Magi world server for discord.