Imagine a Place (Without You)
Discord as a service has solved various practical hurdles for running and participating in communities with mixed media, which has led to it becoming a popular, if controversial, alternative to open web means. It can be great until it isn't.
Thanks to its attractiveness to scam campaigns the onboarding stringency and bot detection sensitivity has grown over time, where even as early as registration these days users can be gated for more verification without any out-of-the-ordinary actions taken. It's not surprising algorithms dealing with broad problems make mistakes, though particularly for long-term users how a service handles them is important.
Since while Discord is largely known for chit-chat it's also increasingly supplanted standard web platforms as a sole replacement for user support, discussions and collaboration for a wide variety of communities, due to its convenience and along with cost largely being Somebody Else's Problem (outside of freemium perks).
Multiple dedicated forums—and even some IRC channels—I've either found useful or been part of have migrated exclusively to Discord, for better or worse. Some having time-limited, restricted Discord invite links that have long since expired. With such consolidation tripping the voodoo of heuristics with an established account, especially with ongoing projects, becomes a tad more impactful than just not being able to post I've hired this cat to stare at you memes.
