we already have an IRC, it's not shatering the community, however, many of us already use discord, and like how a community skype group got setup by crusade, I feel a discord would be a good idea. But official. So people use it.
That skype groupe, of which iirc you was a part of keptick, didn't shater the community, but was a nice alternative that didn't mean having to log into SMD.
Plus lets face it, SMD goes up and down like a fucking yoyo.