Re-enable permanent invites for non-community servers
This change is incredibly foolish. Not all servers fit into the category of community servers - some are very small, some are just for friend groups, and so on. Restricting their ability to make invites to only last one month is silly. It's a self-sabotaging change that makes it harder for people who want to use discord to use discord. There's not even any kind of argument you could make in favour of it, so I have no idea why development time was spent on this.
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Agreed. This is nonsense. It's bad enough they've locked forum-like posting behind community servers. Now they're taking features AWAY from us?
I use Discord servers for tabletop groups. They are too small to bother with community servers, but being unable to create permanent links makes trouble for people who leave and wish to rejoin later.
This also creates problems for small servers that don't want to be discoverable in Discord itself but only want to go through another source, like a blog post, or a Reddit LFG advert, or someone's website. Places that might get considerably less traffic, and that might be ideal for small servers that only want people who are going to be active. The only alternative to this now is for the admin or mods to keep their DMs open and that can get annoying.
I cannot think of a reason for this change other than to force more people to either run community servers or none at all, which defeats the entire purpose of the platform.
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110% agreed! I came here specifically to see if anyone else took issue with this. My entire use of Discord is based around servers exactly like that! They're based around roleplay guilds in MMO's, mostly, or off-shoots of those. They're too small to be community servers or worth the hassle of ‘qualifying’ as a community server, but having to change the invite link every 30 days is a headache and puts new members off even joining the server to begin with if they go to join it only to find the link has expired. Why are we removing features from servers that already not only had and used them, but relied on them?! If a friends server doesn't want an infinite invite link then they… just won't use one! You know, like they've been doing for years now. Why does it now suddenly have to change? “Nearly 100%” means not 100%, as in you're actively messing with some number of users for no good reason.
The only thing I can think is that Discord wants more direct control over how people behave in their servers, to straighten out the blurry lines in terms of user conduct so to speak, by pushing more and more people into making community servers instead of friends servers so Discord can justify their greater control. Not that they necessarily need to given they control the entire platform, but going in and fussing at server owners for not perfectly following trust and safety in a private friends server has much worse optics than something called a “community” server, even if it's effectively being used a the same thing but with tools that all servers should have. I don't see any other reason why they'd actively take away useful features for some users just because most others don't. Just because most people don't use something doesn't mean that no one does or that no one wants it.
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