Remove discord from the website #2162
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The official Rust discord was not used by team members anymore. Amusingly there are quite a few team members active on the "unofficial" community discord. Our discord is mainly a medium drain on mods as we get daily spam bots and weekly trolls.
After a quick check in with the council I am now moving to shutting down the discord. I have spread the knowledge about the incoming shutdown in the discord already. So our steps are
I am already in communication with the community discord owners and moderators, but we do not expect a massive influx of people, especially as we won't do a server wide ping for all the 60k ppl on the server, but instead just let those that still use the server realize that they should migrate.
We will not actually delete the server, as to allow people to keep linking to discussions on the server and preserve their history.
cc @rust-lang/leadership-council