Regarding the Discord possibility, I tend to be pretty nervous of social media integrations - our experience of them in the past is that if they're not *super* well maintained, they're often a security vulnerability, and that's a headache I don't feel like I want to risk atm.
But yeah, this was a discussion about the native chat feature, which as noted is a bit... dried up, at the moment.
A further thing we might want to think about is whether there should be any other top of the index thing to replace it, possibly showing latest posts, or maybe like a cool visual representation of the site somehow, I dunno. Possibly if we're getting rid of it we should just do that then think later if there's something else we might want.