Of course this is still very early, and I'm aware of that.
But for me, searching for people to be willing to play on Discord has now increased in difficulty, not decreased.
Sure, the "I only play via Discord"-people like myself can be found in the subforum.
However, the "I'm open to whatever, including Discord" or "I prefer PMs, but Discord can be okay" kind of people seem to rarely make posts there.
Meaning I now have to go through 6 sub-forums instead of just 3.
I doubt this will change dramatically.
Which yet again makes me feel like somewhat of a second-class member here. Of course the situation has become more convenient for people who only play on-site, as RTs that are only for off-site aren't allowed in the old subforums anymore.
For people who look for Discord-people, it has become worse.
And it will either become even more worse because On-site stays mixed (as in, the two examples I mentioned above don't get reprimanded and stay).
Or it will become even more worse because people like the two examples mentioned above will not continue mentioning "Discordability" (XD) because of reprimands, but will also not make an Off-site-RT because they can't be arsed (it's one thing saying "sure, Discord is fine, don't care" and making a whole new RT).
People are habitual, people are lazy.
I don't see how the change that has been enacted will benefit on-siters and off-siters.
It feels like a city building car-centric infrastructure instead of mixed-traffic systems that can serve anyone equally.
Edit: To reiterate what I mentioned before:
I'm very much in favor of introducing some way to easily distuingish RTs that are open to off-site platforms from RTs that aren't.
I just stand by my point that the path taken was, besides either just making one gender-mixed subforum for off-site RTs (as in combining "requests by females, males and nb" into one) or straight up banning off-site RTs, the worst I can imagine for off-site RTs.