User blog comment:Invader39/About Future Contests/@comment-26456308-20170704030111/@comment-958607-20170704112117

I wouldn't say that's necessarily true. A lot of folk have migrated to the Discord chat and slowed down their editing to a bare minimum. Most of the people who voted were told to do so over Discord, so I don't think anybody has really gone. Sure there have been a fair few departures over recent years, but I think we're currently maintaining a healthy balance.

Speaking of which, I'm honestly starting to think that Discord is a major contributing factor to why the turnout for this contest was so poor, and why wiki activity is down in general. Hundreds of messages pass through our various channels every day, and it seems pretty clear to me that just about all the talk page/blog post/MOC discussion traffic is being done through Discord now, which has really taken a bite out of our recent changes.

Now, this is often the case whenever IM chat is introduced, as many have pointed out in the past, and we've had various forms of chat over the years affecting wiki activity in a plethora of ways. But never before have our contests and our recent changes been hit so fundamentally as they have been over recent weeks.

Time to deactivatae Discord, amirite?