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The thing with discord is, its communities are offspring of other communities. The parent communities are either some subreddit , or some gaming group somewhere, or some forum , or some crypto community etc. The communities centers are elsewhere, not on discord. Most of them can move between chat apps like nomads.

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In my experience, there is a huge difference between people active on discord community vs the reddit community in most cases.

But theres still a reddit community. Is there a case where the community went discord only? And are they willing to pay when discord stops being free?

I mean, If there isn't a huge overlap in users of both reddit and discord, then it's an entirely different community on the same topic.

But to answer your question, plenty and not sure if they are willing to pay. Many open source projects now a days start on discord and then eventually add a subreddit. For example, deno.

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