jusplay4fun wrote:Have we seen an uptick (increase) in players because of this?
Is it too early to see that?
It's too early to see that as the Discord is currently too small to attract in people from outside naturally. We need 1000 members to become "discoverable" on the Discord app itself. Discord is bringing that number down periodically (I think it started at 5,000)), so we might get there. At the moment, growing the server will be through word of mouth with members inviting their friends to come play a game or three.
I think the benefit to the site, and players, will be the ability to more easily arrange games with friends, especially real time games, since Discord is also a phone app. It was created for the existing player base, and if it results in an uptick in new members, that would be fantastic of course.
I've personally been using Discord for 8 years maybe and I play different board games with my friends from time to time.