Personally, I do think this idea has potential. We already have a combined onboarding process for our politics, roleplay, and more when new users join the forums, and it seems to me like that’s working well. It doesn’t force some kind of cultural merger — I imagine those of us that aren’t interested in our politics or our roleplay will just mute the categories we aren’t interested in — but it does allow different aspects of our community to be more discoverable.
If we take a step back, I think it’s worth appreciating that we have an onboarding wizard at all! My impression of the old forums was that there wasn’t any guide to different parts of the forums; either you stumbled upon the roleplay subforums, or you didn’t. At least we have a process now for introducing newcomers to various different parts of our community.
And I think this idea will work best if we embrace that same mindset with Discord as well. I’m sure we’d all like it if roleplay got more visibility. What if everyone who joined our Discord server was introduced to roleplay, similarly to how everyone who joins our forums is? Because that’s possible with Discord now.
Here’s an example shamelessly stolen from TEP — everyone who joins their Discord server, for example, gets asked this question and hence introduced to their RP:
